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...film industry's prodigious output, it was nearly impossible to get a Bollywood film screened in competition. Auteurs from elsewhere in Asia, while well-received at the festival, have gone largely Palme-less, with the notable exceptions of Akira Kurusawa (who shared 1980's award with Fosse for his epic Kagemusha) and Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palme d'Or | 5/24/2009 | See Source »

...Anyway, he's the first director we know of to spin this sweet fantasy out into a 2½-hr., four-language epic. Receiving its world premiere on May 20 at the Cannes Film Festival, Inglourious Basterds - first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" - is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d'Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work - the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof - Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inglourious Basterds: Tarantino and the Jews Defeat Hitler! | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...necessary to prevent increasing environmental damage and that require immediate restrictions on companies that pollute is "if the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced." It is frightening and it is likely to be true, although Gore's theories have detractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Al Gore Can't Bring Attention to the Environment and Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Balsillie's allowed to buy the Coyotes and move them to, say, Hamilton, Ontario, the stage would be set for the most poetic and epic Act III that's ever been written: decades after Oilers owner Peter Pocklington sold a country's pride and legacy to a U.S. team, Wayne Gretzky - Canada's living national treasure, whose face will undoubtedly grace currency one day - could be returned to the province of his birth, where a rabid fan base would perpetually pack his team's stadium and the resulting furor would inspire new passion for the game ... and maybe bring home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Thirteen but stayed in Namibia to be with Angelina Jolie as she gave birth to their daughter Shiloh, was here in 2007 for Babel, and accompanied Jolie last year when she starred in Clint Eastwood's Changeling. Now he's the star of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglourious Basterds. So, to fanciers of ambitious films and soulful beefcake, Pitt and Depp will be battling for the title of Sexiest 45-Year-Old to Walk Up the Red Carpet. (See Brad Pitt in the recent TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes 2009: Great — or the Greatest — Festival? | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

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