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Cannes Film Festival
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Ferrara has fled New York, but he still taps its energy
Entertainment |
May 24, 2008
CANNES, France – Abel Ferrara’s new film, “Chelsea on the Rocks,” represents a kind of homecoming for the Bronx-born director and longtime chronicler of the New York City underbelly. Read more
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Doctor has high hopes for movie
Entertainment |
May 20, 2008
CANNES, France – The entertainment industry attracts all sorts of unusual investors, but the people behind a new movie premiering at the Cannes Film Festival couldn’t be further removed from the Hollywood scene: They are Kansas doctors eager to tell a story about stem cell research. Read more
Monday, May 28, 2007
Small, popular winner emerges
Entertainment |
May 28, 2007
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” a small Romanian film that was one of
the first shown at the Festival de Cannes, outlasted its
better-financed, better-known rivals and won the Palme d’Or at a
ceremony Sunday night at the Palais des Festivals. Read more
Saturday, May 26, 2007
`Ocean’s’ crew cavorts, but seriously
Entertainment |
May 26, 2007
Don Cheadle is Matt Damon’s favorite aphrodisiac, Andy Garcia “had to
sleep with Oprah” and George Clooney still isn’t getting married. Read more
Friday, May 25, 2007
A second chance at Cannes
Entertainment |
May 25, 2007
Hundreds of movies come to the Cannes Film Festival looking for a launch. Read more
`Made in USA’ losing its appeal
Entertainment |
May 25, 2007
When Fox Searchlight unveils a movie at a film festival, savvy
American filmgoers have come to expect the production to make a big
impression at their local theaters – “Little Miss Sunshine,”
“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Garden State,” to name just a few recent examples. Read more
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Julian Schnabel `had to’ direct it
Entertainment |
May 23, 2007
“I’m an artist,” the painter and film director Julian Schnabel says,
looking very much the part in a worn red-and-black plaid shirt open
to the waist. Read more
Weinstein defends `Grindhouse’ split
Entertainment |
May 23, 2007
Quentin Tarantino would have been proud had he been in the melee of
journalists vying for a spot at his “Death Proof” news conference on Tuesday. Read more
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
U2 in the flesh and in 3-D
Entertainment |
May 22, 2007
By the time U2 finally climbed up the stairs of the Palais to belt
out “Vertigo” and “Where the Streets Have No Name” at the Cannes Film
Festival, it was fast approaching 1 a.m. Read more
Monday, May 21, 2007
Crime drama goes for $11.5 million
Entertainment |
May 21, 2007
Outbidding several companies that specialize in independent films,
Sony’s Columbia Pictures has plunked down a hefty $11.5 million for
North American rights to James Gray’s “We Own the Night,” a gritty
crime drama that made its debut at the festival. Read more
New Line launch has a familiar ring
Entertainment |
May 21, 2007
There’s no denying that Hollywood worships sequels. Read more
Saturday, May 19, 2007
News of the world is upstaging the art
Entertainment |
May 19, 2007
Has reality hit Cannes? Read more
O brothers, what hath thou wrought?
Entertainment |
May 19, 2007
Expectations to the contrary, Joel Coen is “not an indiscriminate fan
of violent films.” Read more
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Hitting 60 with savoir-faire
Entertainment |
May 16, 2007
The Festival de Cannes turns 60 this year and, as befits a festival
of a certain age, it’s not making too much of a fuss about it. Read more
In a Cannes prix fix
Entertainment |
May 16, 2007
WHEN George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon stroll down the Cannes
Film Festival red carpet next week, they will generate a global flood
of free “Ocean’s Thirteen” publicity – photographs, TV clips,
Internet hits. Read more
Friday, April 20, 2007
Fresh `Blueberry’ to open Cannes
Entertainment |
April 20, 2007
A road movie set in the U.S., directed by a Chinese auteur, financed
by a French company and starring a mix of British and American
actors, Wong Kar Wai’s “My Blueberry Nights” will open this year’s
Cannes Film Festival in competition. Read more
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Scorsese has full Cannes schedule
News |
April 5, 2007
Martin Scorsese will be busy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Read more
Friday, January 12, 2007
Frears to head jury for Cannes Film Festival
Entertainment |
January 12, 2007
British film director Stephen Frears will lead the jury at the 60th
Cannes Film Festival in May. Read more
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Beijing puts sanctions on filmmaker
Entertainment |
September 6, 2006
Chinese director Lou Ye has been banned from making movies in his
home country for five years because his film was screened at Cannes
in May without government approval, state media said. Read more
