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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
indieWIRE's year end polls are usually the best places to find either what you've missed from the year or a likeminded round-up of the finest the year had to offer. In conducting their annual list of the best undistributed films, Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman [ La Mujer sin cabeza ] topped the charts, despite tepid reception when it premiered at Cannes (small proof that you can only take negaitve...
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Tativille (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman ( La Mujer sin cabeza ), from an original screenplay by the director, marks 2008's first piece of unequivocally great filmmaking. Contrary to critical intimations of The Headless Woman's narrative opacity, Martel builds her picture entirely around female lead Veró's (María Onetto) distressed psychology following an automobile accident of her own distracted making....
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Film News: Prison drama enters Oscar race -- Pablo Trapero's prison drama "Leonera" (Lion's Den), which competed at Cannes this year, is Argentina's candidate for foreign-language Oscar consideration.
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Of the 28 films slated for screening at the 46th New York Film Festival (Septembr 26 to October 12, 2008 at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater and the Ziegfield Theater at 141 West 54 Street), eight are directed by and/or focus on women. Directed by women: Agnès Jaoui’s “Let It Rain” (“Parlez-moi de la pluie”) - France, [...]
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
I can never keep up with Cannes news, which seems to erupt bi-hourly as journalists and critics exit the theaters reporting away and as photogs snap the next batch of arrivals. It's like an action film that never stops with new setpieces. Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener representin' Charlie Kauffman's Synechdoche New York Sean Penn's jury will announce...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Film Reviews: Lucrecia Martel's latest is a simpler and more taut, if slightly less interesting version of the oblique but mesmerizing studies of family life in the director's previous films.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
"Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel is nothing if not subtle," writes Peter Brunette in the Hollywood Reporter. "She is also a master of visual and aural technique, which is on full and splendid display in La Mujer Sin Cabeza (The Headless...
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O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The curtain rises on the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008. This year’s feature film jury members include: Sean Penn, President (American actor, director, screenwriter), Jeanne Balibar (French actress), Alexandra Maria Lara (German actress), Natalie Portman (Israeli-American actress), Marjane Satrapi (Iranian author, director), Rachid Bouchareb (French director), Sergio [...]...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Following is a list of films in the main competition for the coveted Palme d'Or award this year. Hundreds of other films will also be showing out of competition.
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Towleroad (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Gilles Jacob (left), president of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Fremaux (right), revealed hot tranny mess Amanda Lepore (warning: site NSFW) to be the new face of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday. Actually, it's not Amanda, but it...
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Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
As you can see from the list below, the 61st Festival de Cannes is filled with many familiar names including Steven Soderbergh, who brings his pair of Che films, and works from Clint Eastwood, Atom Egoyan, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen and Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. The festival takes place May 14-25. IN COMPETITION 24 City, directed by Jia Zhangke Adoration,
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Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Looks like Vicky Cristina Barcelona will in fact play at Cannes, though Out of Competition. And, by the way, who the fuck gave Jennifer Chambers Lynch money to make another movie? Anyway, here's the official line-up. - Three Monkeys - dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( Climates , Distant ) - Le Silence de Lorna - dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - Un conte de Noël - dir. Arnaud Desplechin ( Kings & Queen...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Paris - Former Golden Palm winner Steven Soderbergh's monumental four-hour film about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara looks to be one of the highlights of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, according to the festival programme presented in Paris on Wednes...
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Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
New films from Atom Egoyan, Steven Soderbergh, Wim Wenders and Charlie Kaufman also make the Cannes slate Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, is one of several high profile American films going for the Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes Film Festival.
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