Word: hollywood
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...which is best known for its former dictator's cult of personality so extreme that he renamed the days of the week after the women in his life; and Kyrgystan, which is where, exactly? Kazakhstan, by contrast, has the neighborhood bragging rights attached to being a big name in Hollywood...
...didn’t end up in Pusey. Instead, the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrator’s 20-minute video thesis, an original version of the 1990 Sundance Film Festival award-winning “House Party,” launched Hudlin’s successful Hollywood directing career, culminating in his 2005 appointment as president of Black Entertainment Television (BET), a leading black cable network...
This is not to say that Cannes (or Venice or Toronto) is immune to Hollywood star quality. The big festivals need celebrities to grace the red carpet, to be photographed by the paparazzi and TV crews, to glean worldwide publicity for the event. So the premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the first Indy movie since 1989, was headline news. Producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg and leading man Harrison Ford showed up to promote their familiar if robust revival of the archaeologist adventurer. Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman appeared with their sweetly vigorous animated...
International art cinema, as opposed to the red-meat Hollywood variety, is a left-wing enterprise. At Cannes, you simply will not find, say, a film on Northern Ireland's Troubles that is sympathetic to its English occupiers, or an Israeli film hostile to the Palestinians. This year, Hunger, the story of IRA leader Bobby Sands' fatal hunger strike in 1981, won the Camera d'Or (debut film) prize for Afro-Irish director Steve McQueen; and Waltz With Bashir, an animated documentary about Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's sense of guilt over the Sabra and Shatila massacres of Palestinian refugees...
...real world - which Hollywood honchos would define as the North American box office and the Oscars list - a U.S. film's showing at Cannes has little impact. In 1991, Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink received an unprecedented three top awards (Palme d'Or, Best Director and, for John Turturro, Best Actor) but grossed only $6 million stateside; last year, the Coens' No Country for Old Men got no prize at Cannes, then earned nearly $75 million on domestic screens (plus $86 million abroad), and won the brothers three Oscars, including for Best Picture. Such Academy-nominated hits...