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    Cannes Class of 2008
    A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama
    Published: May 28, 2008

    CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be interpreted according to its president's presumed taste....

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    Shots in the Dark
    Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone
    Published: May 21, 2008

    CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget, let alone transcend,...

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    A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
    Published: May 21, 2008

    Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy...

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    Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.
    Published: May 21, 2008

    CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che —an...

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    Summer Grows Up
    The season of big budget bangs uses its brain
    Published: May 7, 2008

    Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it's striking to note just how many movies will require us...

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    Arthouse Picks for the Week of April 9-15
    Dueling divas and Dr. Strangelove.
    Published: April 9, 2008

    Artists' Television Access. "Palestine: Interior/Exterior": Contemporary work by James T. Hong and Kamal Aljafari, who appear in person. Wed., April 9, 8 p.m. $8. Cinematograph Seven —...

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    Incredible Shrinking Women
    The mainstreaming of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.
    Published: March 5, 2008

    For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy nightclub singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day has...

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