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Unless it is one of his "Ocean's Eleven" casino romps, Steven Soderbergh never makes things easy for an audience.With his epic film biography of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Soderbergh defiantly has made the story he wanted to see, one...
CANNES, France (AFP) - Revolutionary idol Ernesto "Che" Guevara stormed into Cannes in a more than four-hour movie offered up by Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, dissecting the rise and fall of the world's most celebrated guerrilla leader. "Che" the movie, running exactly four hours 28...
"Few experiences are richer than to be able to see a film again, ten years after the first time, while remembering the reception it got fifty years earlier," writes Emmanuel Burdeau in the Cahiers du cinéma Cannes diary. "One must count the years; hold several scoring boards at the same time....
As I sit here in my hotel room, listening to the clang-clank-clatter from the street below, where recycling trucks are picking up load after load of glass bottles from last night's revelry, I realize that it's Cannes Day 9 and... ... As I sit here in my hotel room,...
By Eric J. Lyman 12 minutes ago CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - With the Cannes Film Festival drawing to a close on Sunday, attention is turning toward Venice, where Ridley Scott's "Body of Lies" is expected to be among the big-name U.S. films screening out of competition on the Lido. More than...
By Charles Masters 37 minutes ago CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - The films shown at Cannes have always held up a mirror to the plight of people in the territories they hail from, sometimes in stark contrast to the excesses of the Croisette. But this year more than ever, black-tie attendees are...
By Charles Ealy | Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 05:29 PM CANNES, France — Dana Glover of Round Rock-based Midian Films had an unexpected surprise at this year’s festival. As he did last year, he came to Cannes with a short film, this one called “TKL,” which was intended to be a calling card for people...
CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - Phoenix plays Leonard -- the adopted son of Reuben Kraditor (Moni Moshonov) and his wife Ruth (Isabella Rossellini) -- who is suicidal after being forced to break off a planned marriage because of circumstances beyond his control. Earnest and dutiful, Leonard works...
The 'Material Girl' on the Journey and Children That Changed Her Life By CYNTHIA McFADDEN, ROXANNA SHERWOOD and KATIE ESCHERICH It's edging up on midnight. But even on a Tuesday night at film festival time in Cannes the town is still hopping, packed with the people who make movies, the people who...
A two-part biopic of Che Guevara is among Latin-themed films at Cannes Latin American movie talent is enjoying huge success around the world Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are attracting Hollywood films to shoot there Brazilian director Walter Sailles says Latin film-makers help each other succeed...
