Cannes
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Diego Luna: ‘We’re Pushing Kids to Be Adults Before They Should’
Video: The filmmaker discusses his childhood without a mother, and how it fed his film, “Abel”
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Cheating, Sexual Repression and Unusual Sex Acts
Oddly, none of it is particularly joyful
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Cannes Festival Dismayed by New Polanski Charge (updated)
Cultural figures who defended the director earlier this week seemed at a loss
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Sexy Housemaids, Selfish Parents and Children
Two of the smaller, international films playing the fest deal with the family unit in unique ways
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Josh Brolin in Cannes: From Landscaping Back to Movie Sets
“I got to the point where I was doing films that I didn’t care for so much. I started landscaping.”
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Cannes: Woody Allen, Mike Leigh Mull Mortality in ‘Stranger,’ ‘Another Year’
The 74-year-old Allen says: “My relationship with Death is the same. I’m against it.”
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Diego Luna’s ‘Abel,’ a Tale of Childhood Lost
A touching and delicate tale of a nine-year-old boy who takes refuge in the fantasy that he is an adult
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Capitalism Unleashed, as Gekko Returns in ‘Wall Street 2’
Stone indicts capitalism anew: “It seems excessive and unregulated. I don’t know where it’s going to go.”
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McGregor, Blunt Going ‘Salmon Fishing’ With Hallstrom
Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars in the Simon Beaufoy-penned adaptation of Paul Torday’s bestselling novel
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First Look: ‘Fair Game’ (Video)
A new clip from Sean Penn’s upcoming thriller hits before Cannes premiere
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Early Bird Buy: Strand Grabs Matthew Bissonnette’s “Passenger Side”
The film is screening at the market at the film festival, which opens Wednesday night
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Waxword Is En Route
Editors Note: Sharon Waxman was still en route to Cannes as of this writing. Please note that all posts below are from 2009. Check back here for updates throughout the festival, which will appear above. –TheWrap editors, Los Angeles
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Volcanic Ash Cloud Strands MipTV, Coachella Travelers
With airports closed across Europe, TV executives are stuck in Cannes while bands can’t get to this weekend’s music festival in California
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Lisa Horowitz & Dominic Patten -
News Agencies to Boycott Cannes Press Conference
Agence France-Presse, Reuters, AP, Getty TV won’t cover film announcements after rift over red carpet video