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...last May's Cannes Film Festival, where The White Ribbon took first prize and A Prophet came in second. Haneke's picture is high-brow caviar, while Audiard's is more a crowd pleaser. On Saturday, The White Ribbon won the top award from the American Society of Cinematographers, beating Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Nine and solidifying its chances to win the Oscar in this category. Ah, but a week ago, at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, A Prophet beat The White Ribbon for Best Film Not in the English Language...
...took for an intoxicated Canadian to start badgering me. On Friday evening, I was on my way to Vancouver's Waterfront Station to catch a train to Robson Square, the downtown area filled with bars, restaurants and nightclubs that was sure to get a little wild if Canada beat Slovakia in the men's hockey semifinals. A young man wearing a red hockey jersey and red paint on both cheeks staggered over to me as I walked toward the station. "Hey, how do you f______ get downtown?" he asked slowly, putting his hand on my shoulder...
...drives me crazy just to see what we haven’t had,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “It doesn’t look like he’s missed a beat [or] much of anything, other than being a little winded…his feel, his savvy, and his instincts go a long way with our team...
...Santa Barbara] was the hardest opponent we’ve faced all season,” Weintraub said. “We have players coming in and out of injury, so it’s difficult to keep the consistency to beat these teams...
...looking forward to the challenge of using our own speed and our own skills to beat them this weekend,” Buesser said. “We are hoping to use some of the skills we’ve been working on to surprise them and to take advantage of them right out of the gates...