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...bonding series that ran for six seasons and ended in 2004 - is already sold out for many of its midnight shows tonight and evening performances on Friday. .. The film is clearly a lifeline for the Sex-deprived. By Sunday, if the early buzz translates into huge ticket sales, Hollywood may have to consider a new truism: there's instant girl power at the movies...
...Sydney had power in Hollywood. But he wore it easily. He was not a social high-flyer. He infinitely preferred a different kind of flying - as the pilot of his own jet. It always seemed to me that he approached flight as he did his movies, enjoying the mastery of its techniques and the beauty it put him in touch with. He was, like most good directors, a practical dreamer. Unlike a lot of them, he was neither self-aggrandizing nor self-important and the thought of never working with him again leaves me (and a lot of people...
...American films Two Lovers (very bad) and Synecdoche, New York (very good) were utterly shut out. So was Clint Eastwood's Changeling, though the Hollywood icon, who turns 78 on Saturday, received a "Special Prize of the 61st" - essentially a we're-glad-you're-still-around pat on the back. That means that, over the past 24 festivals, the old cowboy has brought five films to Cannes, and none has taken a competition prize. Another of these life-achievement citations went to Catherine Deneuve, 64, who starred in the French drama A Christmas Tale. She was there; Clint wasn...
Eastwood, who directed Penn to an Oscar in Mystic River, and del Toro, who co-starred with Penn in 21 Grams, were the only two stars of the American film industry to be given awards. Cannes counts on Hollywood to bring glamor to the Riviera, with non-competition movies like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona. But when the Jury gets down to business, art wins out over entertainment. Indeed, for the second year in a row, not a single English-language movie was honored at Cannes...
...Hollywood would take Begaudeau's book and turn it into Blackboard Jungle or Superbad. There are dramas within the class, but Cantet dispenses with melodrama to get to the truths inside these kids and the teacher who gives totally of himself to get through to them. (The kids were discovered in a school in Paris' 20th arrondisement, put through a long workshop period to play characters who were part fictional, part themselves.) As the film unfolds, a half-dozen or more of the children reveal distinct, tough and touching personalities...