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Gist: A charismatic intellectual (long time contributor Philip Seymour Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization following World War II. A drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) becomes his...

Ruben Östlund has a bunch of cinephile buddies to help him hand out the big daddy of all film prizes this May with the...

Anna Gutto's directorial debut Paradise Highway (starring Juliette Binoche), Blandine Lenoir's third feature Annie Colère (starring Laure Calamy), Kilian Riedhof's sophomore film Vous n’aurez...

Paul Dano will star opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's (Punch Drunk Love) drama There Will Be Blood. Dano, still riding high on the wake of his Sundance Film Festival hit Little Miss Sunshine, is set to play a gifted and charismatic young preacher who captivates churchgoers. Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York) will portray a tycoon who strikes it rich after gaining oil rights to a family's ranch, turning the small town where Dano's character preaches into a boomtown. Although Anderson is shrouding the turn of the century period piece in secrecy, further reports state that Mary Elizabeth Barrett and David Willis are set to join the cast, though neither are attached as yet. The film is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!

In give or take 364 days from now, the 65th edition of the Cannes film festival will be upon us. I know it's absurd, but there are some bonafide films in the works from some Cannes vets and according to these prognostications I supply below, we'll have one more heavyweight event with the possible participation from the likes of Abbas Kiarostami, Olivier Assayas, Paul Thomas Anderson and Hou Hsiao Hsien being joined by recent Palme d'Or winners (2008 and 2009) Laurent Cantet and Michael Haneke.