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...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...
...mainly as restive neighbors of Afghanistan, had thriving (or even furtive) movie centers? That's a prime function of Cannes: to inform the world of the impulse, and ability, to make good films in strange places. Look around, in programs outside the main competition, and find the truth in Lynch's remark on closing night: "Even if the world it reflects is in trouble, the world cinema at Cannes is alive and well...
...Britain's Inland Revenue service suspended its online tax filing system after security breaches allowed users to view other people's information. The problems put a serious dent in plans to make online filing for employers mandatory by 2010. War on spam Fresh from his battle with Merrill Lynch, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is suing companies that send spam, or unsolicited junk e-mail. Going even further in this latest global conflict, the E.U.'s new privacy law bans all firms from sending spam. BOTTOM LINES "No one is quite sure of the rules. Sometimes...
...Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous...
...STORY Mars Mission Jan. 26, 2003 Past Issues Sex & Health Jan. 19, 2003 ----------------- The Real Dean Jan. 12, 2003 ----------------- Person of the Year Dec. 29, 2003 ----------------- Lost Gospels Dec. 22, 2003 ----------------- Insurgents Dec. 15, 2003 ----------------- Diabetes Dec. 8, 2003 ----------------- Love/Hate Bush Dec. 1, 2003 ----------------- Jobs Nov. 24, 2003 ----------------- Jessica Lynch Nov. 17, 2003 ----------------- Russell Crowe Nov. 10, 2003 ----------------- Medicated Kids Nov. 3, 2003 ----------------- New SATs Oct. 27, 2003 ----------------- Eating Smarter Oct. 20, 2003 ----------------- CIA Leak Oct. 13, 2003 ----------------- What Went Wrong Oct. 6, 2003 ----------------- Reagan Letters Sept. 29, 2003 ----------------- Johnny Cash Sept...