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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Nasty human habits in Egoyan’s ‘Adoration’
May 22, 2008Falling into a talkie kind of screenplay, Atom Egoyan’s Adoration is by far his best work...
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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Two for the Price of One with ‘Che’
May 21, 2008Four hours and twenty eights minutes. A bruising film-watching experience that was prolonged by an intermission...
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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Revolution number 10 with ‘Maradona by Kusturica’
May 21, 2008Both filmmaker and soccer legend have a profound love for the sport that made the Argentinean...
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Day 8: Live from Cannes: Man vs. Nature occurs in the ‘Delta’
May 21, 2008With nature overwhelming taking over the frame, comparisons to Terrence Malick's work are inevitable and justified...
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Day 7: Live from Cannes: Guilt Complexion seen in ‘The Headless Woman’
May 21, 2008While Lucrecia Martel's The Holy Girl/La Niña Santa offered a narrative that continually shifted and gave...
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Day 7: Live from Cannes: Children take War Games to the next Level in ‘Johnny Mad Dog’
May 21, 2008A portrait of what is occurring in certain geographical pockets of today's Africa, place a gun...
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Day 7: Live from Cannes: Lost souls in ‘Los Bastardos’
May 21, 2008Day 7's following screening was a film that I had wanted to see even before they...
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Day 7: Live from Cannes: Many changes needed for ‘Exchange’
May 21, 20088:30 a.m screening for an odd title change forty-eight hours before the screening. This won't be...
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Day 6: Live from Cannes: A Menage a Trois that works in ‘Two Lovers’
May 20, 2008Last night's Debussy theater was filled to capacity for the 10:30p.m. screening for Two Lovers (James...
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Day 6: Live from Cannes: France invades Sweden in ‘Les Grandes Personnes’
May 20, 2008One of my last screenings at this year's Critic's Week sidebar, Grown Ups is a sappy...