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...Looking back over your resumé, with films like City of Angels, which was a remake of Wim Wenders' epic Wings of Desire, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the popular book series, you seem confident in taking popular material and reworking it. The only movies I've made that have had that kind of source material are the ones that motivated me to get off my ass and make them, because I thought there was yet another interesting point of view to the material. I think my friend Elvis Mitchell put it really well...
...most recent Veggie Day on May 21. While most restaurants owners and residents I spoke to had heard of Veggie Day, few had any plans to embrace the concept. A local rib shack, Amadeus, was doing brisk business, and many people openly ate hot dogs on the street. Wim De Kinder, owner of the upscale Traiteur Grimod delicatessen, said he tried to introduce vegetarian fare two years ago after learning of the environmental cost of livestock production, but he couldn't shift enough product to make it profitable. "I can't be expected to make a loss for the sake...
...critics would snipe that truly great films (and directors) were being overlooked: there would be no Cannes love for Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul),Werner Herzog (Every Man for Himself and God Against All, aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Terence Malick (Days of Heaven) or Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) - though it must be acknowledged that Wenders would eventually win in 1984 for Paris, Texas. Meanwhile, films from further afield were practically shut out by the Jury. Despite the Indian film industry's prodigious output, it was nearly impossible to get a Bollywood film screened...
...only woman to take the top prize in Cannes' 62-year history. Ironically, Campion's 1989 debut, Sweetie, had been unceremoniously heckled at the festival. That said, being booed at Cannes is a rite of passage: last year's festival saw new movies by Charlie Kaufman, Lucrecia Martel and Wim Wenders receiving catcalls. That hasn't stopped both Campion and Lars Von Trier - whose latest work, Antichrist, received the biggest critical drubbing of this year's festival - from entering their latest films for the Palme this year...
...with cinema came when she was a college student in Paris, where Denis immediately fell in love with the medium. She did not start making films until years later when she realized she could do nothing else. Denis began working as an assistant director on the sets of both Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch. “I was unfit for life, basically,” Denis said in an interview. “And I think cinema was sort of a second life. It was another way to be in contact with my life as an adult...