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...Newspaper (1920), pictured. But just one day after the debut, a lack of security guards forced the new galleries to close. Since then, only members have had viewing privileges. "People would accuse us of being élitist and denying ordinary citizens the right to see these works," says Mercedes González de Amezua, the museum's curator. "But every one us of here wanted them open to the public." They got their wish. When another Madrid museum closed this fall for renovations, the Academy borrowed its guards. To celebrate, the San Fernando has reopened the third floor, and mounted...
...critics slumped away to write their regretful pans. Though we didn't know it then, The Da Vinci Code experience would turn out to be Cannes 2006 in miniature: great hopes for films that mostly underachieved. The big-name items - Pedro Almodóvar's Volver, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette - all had their adherents, but many others who expressed disappointment or derision. This was a festival with no consensus masterpiece. A few smaller movies got high praise, perhaps because they scaled modest peaks, while the more ambitious works...
Tomorrow night the Palme d'Or and Cannes' other prizes will be handed out. The morning line of speculation from the critics had Pedro Almodóvar's Volver and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel holding as the frontrunners, with Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates as an honorable compromise candidate. But we know nothing. All the awards are chosen by the nine-member Jury headed this year by Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai, and they're not talking...
...Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almodôvar's Volver and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, as one of the top three contenders for the Palme...
Brad Pitt didn't make it to the Cannes Festival - he is still with Angelina Jolie, awaiting the birth of their first child - but his film Babel made its own considerable stir in his absence. Pitt heads an imposing international cast in the new epic by director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who earlier collaborated on Amores Perros and 21 Grams...