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Del Toro Wins Cannes Best Actor for "Che" - Praises "Revolutionary" Killer

                   
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News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue May 27, 2008 8:35 AM EDT Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro, the Puerto Rican-born star often dubbed the "Latino Brad Pitt", won Cannes' Best Actor award Sunday for his role as "Che" Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's film. "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself,... [read full story]                    

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Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’: ‘Almost Unreleasable in its Current Form’

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May 28, 2008
        

That seems to be the consensus of those who saw the biopic at the Cannes Film Festival. While Benicio Del Toro (pictured) won the best actor award for his performance of the rebel who launched a million T-shirts, critics say Soderbergh’s highly anticipated biopic, which...

                   

French classroom drama wins Cannes' top prize

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May 28, 2008
        

CANNES, France The French film 'The Class,' a frank tale about classroom life using real students and teachers at a junior high school, won top honors Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival. ... By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer CANNES, France — The French film “The Class,” a...

                   

Che

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May 28, 2008
        

Skip It The Movie:Che Guevara was a revolutionary Marxist leader, who became praised and reviled around the world. He was listed as one of the hundred most influential people in Time magazine and to this day is seen as a symbol of standing up for an ideal and a philosophy. Che is a practically...

                   
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Cannes Film Festival: Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours (Movies)

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May 28, 2008
        

Soderbergh's Che: A revolutionary bit of filmmaking. CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che—an epic non-biopic that might well have been approved by Roberto...

                   

Cannes Hell Wrap-Up: What Does 'Variety' Have Against 'Che,' Anyway?

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May 27, 2008
        

The Cannes Film Festival wound down Sunday pretty much where we left it Friday: Lindsay Lohan still digs girls, distributors mostly kept their checkbooks closed with one or two exceptions, and Sean Penn and his competition jury putatively fulfilled their social mandate by awarding the French...

                   

Hollywood Hearts Che!

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May 27, 2008
        

While Americans remembered the servicemen and women who gave their lives for their country, a couple of people who wear make-up and costumes for a living marked Memorial Day weekend a little differently. Benicio del Toro won the best actor prize at Cannes as the star of Steven Soderbergh’s...

                   

Del Toro dedicates Cannes award to Che

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May 27, 2008
        

Benicio del Toro dedicates Cannes award to Che CANNES, France — Benicio Del Toro won the best-actor prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival for "Che," Steven Soderbergh's four-hour-plus epic about Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. Presented as two films, "Che" follows Guevara and Fidel...

                   

Let's dedicate this one to a mass murderer . . .

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May 27, 2008
        

CANNES, France - Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro, the Puerto Rican-born star, won Cannes' Best Actor award Sunday for his role as "Che" Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's film on the revolutionary hero."I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," said the actor, after accepting his...