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Roger Ebert: Movie Maven, Digital Immigrant, Unconquerable Spirit

Movies
 April 5, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 6 weeks ago

Ebert's last act -- reinventing himself as a digital ninja at a time when his peers were retiring, getting fired and relegated to the past  -- was his most extraordinary

  

Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward Kiss Featured on Cannes Poster

Movies
 March 22, 2013 By Brent Lang 8 weeks ago

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are at their most glamorous

  

'The Great Gatsby' to Open Cannes Film Festival

Movies
 March 12, 2013 By Brent Lang 9 weeks ago

"The Great Gatsby" will bring Leonardo DiCaprio back to Cannes for the first time since 2007

  

How Graffiti Inspired Machinima’s New Film Festival

Movies
 November 29, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 24 weeks ago

Machinima, the online video heavyweight, launches an Interactive Festival on Friday 

  

Palme d'Or Winner 'Amour' Gets U.S. Release Date

Awards
 May 29, 2012 By Brent Lang 50 weeks ago

Michael Haneke's "Amour" is considered a front-runner for a Best Foreign Film Oscar

  

Cannes 2012: Michael Haneke's 'Amour' Wins Palme d'Or

Movies
 May 27, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Michael Haneke's quiet, emotional story of aging and dying, "Amour," takes top prize; "Reality" and "The Angels' Share" are runners-up, but English-language films are nearly shut out

  

Cannes 2012: Sundance Selects Acquires 'Like Someone in Love'

Movies
 May 27, 2012 By Todd Cunningham 51 weeks ago

Sundance Selects picks up U.S. rights to former Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone to Love"

  

Cannes 2012: Indomina Acquires Wild and Weird 'Holy Motors'

Movies
 May 27, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Leos Carax's "Holy Motors," one of the festivals most acclaimed but divisive films, goes to the Indomina Group on the eve of the Cannes awards ceremony

  

Cannes 2012: Oscilloscope Acquires Matteo Garrone's 'Reality'

Movies
 May 26, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Oscilloscope plans 2013 release for "Reality," story about reality television starring an actor serving prison time for murder

  

Cannes 2012: IFC Midnight Acquires Erotic Korean Drama 'Taste of Money'

Movies
 May 26, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

IFC will handle North American distribution for Im Sang-soo's "The Taste of Money," a drama about sexual desires and power struggles in a rich Korean family

  

Cannes 2012: 'Despues de Lucia' Wins Top Prize in Un Certain Regard

Movies
 May 26, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Michel Franco's Mexican drama "Despues de Lucia" takes top award from jury headed by Tim Roth; Emile Dequenne and Suzanne Clement win acting awards

  

Cannes 2012: 'In the Fog,' 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' Win Critics Awards

Movies
 May 26, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

International critics' association FIPRESCI honors "In the Fog," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "Hold Back"; Eucumenical Jury goes for "The Hunt"

  

Cannes 2012: Does the Palme d'Or Race Come Down to Naughty vs. Nice?

Movies
 May 26, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Day 11: It's (almost) all over but the voting, and the two frontrunners in the Palme d'Or race appear to be the quiet, emotional "Amour" and the loud, crazy "Holy Motors"

  

Cannes 2012: Sharon Waxman & Steve Pond Debate the Contenders (Video)

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 51 weeks ago

Wrap editor Sharon Waxman and columnist Steve Pond discuss the buzz at the august film festival

  

Cannes 2012: 'No' Wins Top Prize at Directors Fortnight

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Chilean film "No," starring Gael Garcia Bernal, is among prize-winners in Cannes' Directors Fortnight section

  

Cannes 2012: 'The Anti-Semite' Is Banned From Cannes Marketplace

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Anti-Defamation League applauds cancellation of Cannes market screenings for film featuring "grotesque anti-Semitism"

  

Cannes 2012: Russian Student Film 'Doroga Na' Wins Cinefondation Award

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Student films from Russia, the United States and Cuba are selected by Cannes' Cinefondation jury headed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

  

Cannes 2012: Alec Baldwin Apologizes for Trashing Harvey Weinstein

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Alec Baldwin pulls out of his onstage appearance at the amfAR gala but makes up with Harvey Weinstein after publicly blasting the mogul earlier in the festival

  

Cannes 2013: Anchor Bay Films Wins Rights to 'Shadow People'

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Brent Lang 51 weeks ago

Arclight Films sells rights to Chinese romantic drama "Dangerous Liaisons"

  

Cannes 2012: A Giggly Robert Pattinson Touts Cronenberg Thriller 'Cosmopolis'

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 51 weeks ago

"Cosmopolis" star Robert Pattinson struggles to explain the David Cronenberg movie set largely in a limousine cruising New York streets

  

Cannes 2012: 'Jaws,' Boos & Drugs

Movies
 May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Day 10: Steven Spielberg shows "Jaws" and says sharks have been very good for him, but audiences get unruly, and Pete Doherty talks frankly about making a movie on heroin

  

Cannes 2012: Sundance Selects Acquires Ken Loach's 'The Angels' Share'

Deal Central
 May 24, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 51 weeks ago

IFC/Sundance have worked with Loach on three prior projects, one of which won the Palme d'Or

  

Cannes 2012: 'Aqui y Alla' Wins Critics Week Prize

Movies
 May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Antonio Mendez Esparza's "Aqui y alla" has won the Grand Prize in the festival's Critics Week section

  

Cannes 2012: Is 'The Paperboy' a Camp Classic, or an Appalling Mess?

Movies
 May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 51 weeks ago

Some critics think Lee Daniels' steamy Southern potboiler is so bad it's good, but most say it's just plain awful

  

Wes Anderson on ‘Moonrise Kingdom’: ‘It’s a Memory of a Fantasy’

Movies
 May 24, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 51 weeks ago

“It’s the autobiography of something that didn’t happen,” the director with one of Hollywood's most specific visual idioms tells TheWrap in an interview 

  

Cannes 2012: Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Get Sweaty, Trampy in 'Paperboy'

Movies
 May 24, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 51 weeks ago

Nicole Kidman says she gave herself over to the graphic scenes in Lee Daniel's pulpy "The Paperboy," which has become the talk of the Croisette

  
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