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

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'

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

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

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?

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)

May 25, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 52 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

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 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

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 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

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 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

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 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'

May 25, 2012 By Brent Lang 52 weeks ago

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

  

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

May 25, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 52 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

May 25, 2012 By Steve Pond 52 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'

May 24, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year 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

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year 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?

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year 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’

May 24, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year 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'

May 24, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 1 year 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

  

Cannes 2012: Kino Lorber Wins U.S. Rights to 'In Another Country'

May 24, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

Southern Korean film stars Isabelle Huppert of "The Piano Teacher" fame

  

Cannes 2012: Kim Kardashian and Other Signs of Life in the Zombie Ghost Town

May 24, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 9: The festival winds down with baffling movies, a Roman Polanski short and a giddy Kim Kardashian

  

Cannes 2012: Critics Don't Like 'On the Road,' but They Blame Jack Kerouac

May 23, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Even the most positive reviews of Walter Salles' adaptation of "On the Road" say Jack Kerouac's book is nearly impossible to adapt

  

Cannes 2012: Kristen Stewart Embraces Topless, Beatnik Role in 'On the Road'

May 23, 2012 By Dana Kennedy 1 year ago

 “I love pushing, I love scaring myself," Kristen Stewart says about her role in Walter Salles' new movie, "On the Road"

  

Cannes 2012: 'Holy Motors,' Holy S#*!

May 23, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 8: The wild and weird "Holy Motors" provides a shot of adrenaline, and Ken Loach doesn't want to watch his language

  

Cannes: IFC Acquires Ben Wheatley Road Comedy 'Sightseers'

May 22, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

IFC grabs North American rights before dark comedy from Ben Wheatley debuts in Cannes' Directors Fortnight

  

Cannes: Brad Pitt Says 'Killing Them Softly' Isn't Anti-Obama, But It Is Political

May 22, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"Killing Them Softly" juxtaposes Obama's rhetoric with grim violence, but Brad Pitt tells Cannes press conference it's not a slap at the president

  

'The Master': Paul Thomas Anderson Reaches Out to Scientologist Tom Cruise (Exclusive)

May 22, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Paul Thomas Anderson recently screened the film, loosely based on the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, for the group's most famous follower: Tom Cruise

  
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