The 2008 Cannes film festival will go down in film history as the year with the Latin touch, as Spanish-language movies, Latin themes, and A-list celebs make waves at cinema's largest showcase. Eagerly-awaited Thursday by the 4,000-odd film critics attending the fest is star director Steven... [read full story]
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Cannes is ending with mixed results. Early market activity indicated how the French festival also wasn’t able to pull the market out of the slump. And now it seems like a classic case of bulls vs. bears. On the one side Variety is reporting ‘Cannes reels in deals,’ but on the other side there’s...
Although there are plenty of summer blockbusters to go around this year, many critics are disappointed with Cannes’ main competition films. “Coming off another weak Berlin festival, there is a sense that 2008 is not going to be the best year for films,” Jay Weissberg of Variety said. “Even before...
Everyone has their childhood favorite: whether it is the hand-drawn beauty of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;" or the modern, computer-generated genius of "Shrek." "Waltz with Bashir" explores the effects of trauma experienced during war. In 2002, however, the Academy Awards took a major step...
Everyone has their childhood favorite: whether it is the hand-drawn beauty of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;" or the modern, computer-generated genius of "Shrek." "Waltz with Bashir" explores the affects of trauma experienced during war. In 2002, however, the Academy Awards took a major step...
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