Word: 60th
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...United Nations kind of evening at the Palmares, the closing ceremony for the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Surveying a rich and rewarding slate of 21 films in the official competition, the jury, headed by Brit director Stephen Frears, gave out nine prizes to movies from eight different countries: Romania, Japan, the U.S., Germany, France, Russia, South Korea and Mexico. Only France had two winning films, and the directors of those were from Tehran and New York City...
...film), Grand Jury Prize (second place), Jury Prize (third place), Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director (a consolation prize that is usually different from the Palme d'Or winner) and maybe a few more. This being a festival whose number is divisible by five, there'll be a "60th Festival" award for yet another film. In other words, there are up to 10 prizes given out for the 21 films selected for the competition. Theoretically, if you're invited to the Cannes party, you have a nearly 50% chance of coming home a winner...
...people who run the world's most glamorous convention have a funny way of marking its 60th birthday. The huge lobbies of Festival Palace, its main meeting venue, are usually bedecked with gigantic photos of its great and good. But they are bare this year, as if hitting 60 were something to hide, not trumpet. It's either a false modesty or a decorative oversight, for Cannes has not forgotten how to promote itself. The celebrity quotient is high-Leo and Matt, George Clooney and Brangelina-and this Riviera redoubt is also crawling with esteemed auteurs, including a couple dozen...
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...Thirteen: Dead in the Water Persepolis Finds Love in the Afternoon A Scary, Superb Orphanage Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights Rethinking the Art of Subtitles Sicko is Socko Three Twisty Delights Archive All-TIME 100 Movies That's how three very good films in the first days of the 60th Cannes Film Festival struck us. Their perplexities are part of their power. One of them Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, is slated to open in the States this fall. The other two - Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Andrei Zvyagintsev...