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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Movie news

  • Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
    CANNES, France (AP) -- In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321....
  • Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
    CANNES, France (AP) -- James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality....
  • Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'
    CANNES, France (AP) -- Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"...
  • Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes
    CANNES, France (AP) -- Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre....
  • Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
    CANNES, France (AP) -- An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival....
  • A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes
    CANNES, France (AP) -- Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival....
  • Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival
    CANNES, France (AP) -- After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or....
  • A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes
    CANNES, France (AP) -- For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics (Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita")....
  • Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes
    CANNES, France (AP) -- "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript - a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about....
  • Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools....