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Coburn Ferrari California sets world record auction price

gizmag.com     May 23, 2008   10 related          

It is perhaps appropriate that just a few days after Ferrari released details of its delectable new California model, that a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder should set a world record auction price of EUR 7,040,000 (US$11,070,000). No doubt buoyed by its "celebrity provenance" (it was...                    

Dark films dominate at Cannes this year

usatoday.com     May 23, 2008   37 related          

By Harlan Jacobson, Special for USA TODAY CANNES, France — Cannes practically attacked itself this year, as the films all but denounced the glamour of the red carpet that the filmmakers walked up to take their bows. And with the awarding of the Golden Palm set for Sunday night, it's clear that...                    

Film Weekly at Cannes 2008: who's the Palme des Palmes?

guardian.co.uk     May 22, 2008   2 related          

I talk to Matteo Garrone about his brilliant Gomorra, Bruce Weber, Turner winner and director Steve McQueen, and Spike Lee Show some respect: Matteo Garrone's Gomorra I'm going for Gomorra to win the Palme d'Or on Sunday night. It's the only film I've seen here that could take its place among the...                    

Going hungry with Che

macleans.ca     May 22, 2008   81 related          

Slept in for a change. The Cannes programmers gave us a break this today, clearing out the schedule to leave our palates fresh for this evening’s premiere of Che, Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus epic about Che Guevera. For once here, it was sunny. I was tempted to go to the beach, and almost...                    

Cannes Review: Hunger

cinematical.com     May 21, 2008   1 related          

Filed under: Drama, Independent, Cannes, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Hunger, by British artist and director Steve McQueen and Irish writer Enda Walsh, is a graphically violent, deeply brooding film about IRA volunteer Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), who led a hunger strike in 1981 aimed...                    

Watch it! - Cannes Day: Brit art shock!

independent.co.uk     May 21, 2008   2 related          

By Jonathan Romney The rebirth of the UK art film is undeniably happening in Cannes this year with four major features that put their money where their mouth is aesthetically and thematically - and not a romcom about a plucky darts team in sight. After Duane Hopkins’ Better Things, Steve...                    

Cinematical Seven: Who Else Could Have Played Indy?

cinematical.com     May 19, 2008   136 related          

Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Cinematical Seven Indiana Jones -- he's got to be Harrison Ford, doesn't he? Okay, we had young Indiana Jones characters -- River Phoenix in the opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Sean Patrick Flanery...                    

RIP: Reel Important People -- May 19, 2008

cinematical.com     May 19, 2008          

Filed under: Obits Rosario Prestopino (1950-2008) - Makeup Artist, Special Effects Artist. Worked on Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fuci's Zombie, City of the Living Dead, The Black Cat, The New York Ripper and The New Gladiators, as well as Lamberto Bava's DemonsDemons 2, Dario Argento's Terror...                    

Bobby Sands: hero, villain or other?

amnesty.org.uk     May 19, 2008   2 related          

I really hate it when people who have not seen a film or play take it upon themelves to comment publicly on it – usually to criticise it in a Mary Whitehouse-style way, slamming the producers and urging others not to see it either. But I do want to discuss the new film Hunger, which has just...                    

Court Summerfield, rest in peace.

fearthebeard.org     May 19, 2008          

Last summer, I was given the opportunity to participate in the 24 Hours of LeMons at Altamont Motorsports Park. It was one of the most memorable events of my life and something I haven't been able to stop talking about since. This is why I was horrified to learn that ...