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The predictably cranky and impatient press audience offered little love to Philippe Garrel’s “Frontier of Dawn” at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
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At Cannes, the expectations surrounding “Che,” Steven Soderbergh’s biopic of Ernesto Guevara, could hardly have been higher.
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There’s plenty of frantic energy in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” lots of noise and money too, but what’s absent is any sense of rediscovery.
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“Johnny Mad Dog” is an assaultive fiction about Liberian child soldiers and “Delta” is a Hungarian film that rigorously upholds the conventions of the festival art film genre.
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With “Two Lovers,” the director James Gray has jettisoned the urban-crime-genre trappings of his first three features and made a romantic comedy.
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Angelina Jolie is the lustrous centerpiece of Clint Eastwood’s latest endeavor, “Changeling,” which was shown Tuesday morning at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Memory twists and turns, peering into this and that dark corner in Wong Kar-wai’s “Ashes of Time Redux” and Terence Davies’s “Of Time and the City.”
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As the Cannes Film Festival approaches its midpoint, a rich sampling of modern cinematic realism has been on display.
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The apocalypse came early to the Cannes Film Festival this year, filling screening rooms with snarling dogs, bursting bombs, shouting men and screaming women.
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With the 61st Cannes Film Festival, hurdles lie between festival screens and American theaters.
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