Cannes film festival
Wes Anderson, Pixar movies among Cannes would-be highlights
The showcase has proved a launchpad for relatively unknown filmmakers - 15 directors had been due to make their debut this year - but also puts established...
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World's biggest film festivals unite for 10-day global streaming event
No details of the programming were announced and it was unlikely that major new movies that generally launch at film festivals would be included.
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Cannes film festival difficult to hold this year 'in original form': organisers
The festival had already been postponed from its original mid-May dates to late June and early July.
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Spike Lee to be first black head of Cannes jury - organisers
The maker of Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing is the first person of black African descent to ever preside at the world's biggest film festival, which is held in May on the French Riviera.
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South Korean social satire 'Parasite' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes
It was up against films by a whole cast of industry heavyweights, including Quentin Tarantino’s latest opus, 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood'.
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In Cannes, glittery film festival literally costs the earth
In 2015, the festival generated an extra 1,900 tons of rubbish for the city of Cannes, ADEN says, pointing to the last available figures.
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Hollywood star Fanning faints because of 'tight dress'
She posted a selfie giving the thumbs up sign, adding the hashtags #dresstootight and #timeofthemonth.
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Cannes gets steamy with two-hour orgy of sadomasochistic debauchery
The action takes place at night in a forest, where a group of libertine French nobles who have been expelled from Louis XVI's court for debauchery, embark on a sexual rampage in which they unleash their wildest carnal urges.
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Antonio Banderas says heart attack helped him reinvent himself
'I don’t smoke anymore, I do more exercise than ever. I feel more clear in my brain and I kind of reinvented myself.'
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Migrant ghost story makes Cannes history
Mati Diop told AFP that it was while she was making a short film in Senegal a decade ago that she began to wrestle with the tragic push-and-pull factors leading Africans to flee the continent.
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African filmmakers unite under Pavillon Afriques at Cannes Film Fest
For the first time in the festival’s history, 15 countries from the continent are sharing a platform at the fest.
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Selena Gomez believes social media is biggest concern facing her generation
Selena Gomez has told EWN that while she sees some use in having social media, she believes it is a dangerous tool.
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Schumacher documentary in the works and headed to Cannes
Schumacher turned 50 on 3 January but has not been seen in public since a skiing accident in the French Alps five years ago which left him with severe head injuries and in a medically-induced coma.
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Tarantino’s new film makes the cut for Cannes
The movie will compete against new films by veteran directors Ken Loach and Terrence Malick for the top Palme d’Or prize at the festival, which begins on 14 May.
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Zombies and gangsters to star at Cannes Film Festival but no Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino’s 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' was hotly tipped to make it to the festival but the film is apparently not yet ready.
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[WATCH] Spike Lee repeatedly calls Donald Trump a 'motherf****r'
Director Spike Lee called out US President Donald Trump after he premiered his film 'BlacKkKlansman' at the Cannes Film Festival. CNN reports.
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'Cannes was Weinstein's hunting ground'
Italian actress Asia Argento, one of the women quoted in Ronan Farrow’s 'New Yorker' article in October, said Harvey Weinstein raped her during the Cannes festival in 1997.
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Japan's 'Shoplifters' steals the show to win Cannes Palme d'Or
The award defied speculation that the Palme might go to a female director, with three strong contenders in a year when sex scandals were the talk of the town.
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Film shares untold story of 7 men who were sentenced to life with Mandela
The documentary titled ‘The State Against Mandela And the Others’ is showing at the Cannes Film Festival as a special screening.
