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Cannes Monterey Media Secures U.S. Passage for The Citizen
Cary Elwes on the cast roster has been picked up by Monterey Media for all U.S. and Canadian rights in a deal struck with the film's production banner 3K ...
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Cannes-Fashion Photos Marion Cotillard Opts for Pleated Dior While Keanu Reeves Goes Casual
Aside from the azure Mediterranean backdrop, the Monday blues were absent from the Cannes Film Festival's red carpet today. Instead, actresses such as Zoe Saldana, Marion Cotillard, and Milla Jovovich merged graphic prints in black, white, and eye-popping yellow with fierce, strappy footwear. Elsewhere, actors dusted off more classic red-carpet looks--such as Valentino brocade, black lace, ...
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Video James Caans Blood Ties premieres at Cannes
James Caan says they don't make movies like they used to while promoting his film Blood Ties in Cannes. The movie co-stars Marion Cotillard and Clive ...
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Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France
The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G. ...
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Atlanta to get 20-story Ferris wheel from Paris via Pensacola
By David Beasley ATLANTA | Mon May 20, 2013 6:03pm EDT ATLANTA May 20 (Reuters) - Downtown Atlanta will soon look a little more like London, after a decision by city council members on Monday to allow the construction of a 20-story Ferris wheel similar to the popular London Eye on the banks of the Thames River. The "SkyView Atlanta" wheel, which will be less than half the height ...
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Library event with author Paul French is canceled
Author Paul French has had to cancel his visit Friday to the St. Louis County Library.French is the author of "Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China." Earlier this month, the book won an Edgar Award for best true crime.A news release from the library said the event was canceled because of a death in the author's family. No ...
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Brit father admits killing children in France
French police said a British man involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife admitted slashing the throats of his two young children. Julian Stevenson, 48, allegedly attacked and killed his two children, Matthew, 10, and Carla, 5, during what police said was his first visit with the children since a custody dispute arose out of allegations he had attacked his wife, leading to their divorce. ...
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In photos Timberlake Kidman and more at Cannes
Marion Cotillard was among the many actresses and actors posing for photographers at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes over the long weekend. She was there on Monday to promote the film Blood Ties.(Joel ...
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Opening Day at Strasbourg International Washed Out
STRASBOURG, France ...
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Gold becomes a theme at glitzy Cannes amfAR gala
This computer-generated image released by Armani shows animated images in the likeness of actors Richard Burton, left, and Elizabeth Taylor, in a gold Armani gown. There will be more gold to come this week at Thursday's amfAR gala, at the Cannes Film Festival which will showcase 40 of the world's top models in "The Ultimate Gold Collection Fashion Show," curated by Carine ...
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Yes she Cannes Sonam Kapoor on a red carpet high
As the inflation climbed to a new high of 8.24 per cent, the BJP on Friday accused the UPA government of mismanaging the economy and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."You the economic Prime Minister, cannot manage the economy, cannot manage India. Please quit," BJP spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad told reporters here.He claimed that inflation had reached new ...
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Oops Eva Shows All at Cannes
nnEva Longoria had a major wardrobe malfunction in Cannes, France, when the crowd learned she was not wearing any underwear with her glamorous green ...
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Israel contests France TV over Palestinian boys death
29/03/2013 19:15 CET Israel says there is new evidence that a French television report whose harrowing images helped inspire the second Palestinian uprising was unfounded. The report in 2000 showed a father and son in Gaza caught up in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire. The 12-year-old was later pronounced dead – hit, said France 2, by Israeli troops. Nearly 13 years later, the Israeli ...
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Seen and Heard at Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to - which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties." An icon of '70s cinema through his role as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather," Caan plays the patriarch of a ...
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Llewyn Davis star shines at Cannes
When Oscar Isaac first approached T Bone Burnett to prepare for his role as a folk singer in Inside Llewyn Davis, the film's executive music producer gave him some good advice. "He told me, 'Sing like you're singing to yourself,'" Isaac recalled during a Cannes Film Festival press event Sunday as the much-anticipated Coen brothers film made its world premiere. ...
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Cannes festival surges into top gear Coen brothers take poll position in the race for the Palme dOr
By Donald Clarke In James Toback's frisky documentary Seduced and Abandoned , presented for the press yesterday morning, one contributor describes the Cannes Film Festival as having "a split personality". Many attendees are just here to discuss deals. A few more are here to celebrate the best in world cinema. The event surged into top gear over the weekend with a cracking array of ...
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Cannes With The Congress Ari Folman votes for new audacity
May 19--CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world's attention with his combat piece "Waltz With Bashir." A largely autobiographical account of his experience in the first Israel-Lebanon war, "Bashir" subsumed real-life ...
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Cannes 2013 The musical side of the Coens Inside Llewyn Davis
May 19--"He had to be believable as a musician, because this is not the kind of movie where you hear a few bars of a song; they play out in their entirety," Joel continues. "But the character is in every scene, so he has to be a very accomplished actor. It's not easy to find that in the same person, so we were very frustrated until Oscar walked in." "Now it weirdly ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Rain washed out Strasbourg International
First-round matches in the main draw at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament were rained out Monday. Seven matches, including one pitting ...
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New Airbus A350 jet could make Paris show flypast
The vertical tail wing of the first Airbus A350 is seen on the final assembly line in Toulouse, southwestern France, in this October 23, 2012 file photo. (JEAN-PHILIPPE ...
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Palestinian film of love and betrayal breaks new ground at Cannes
CANNES (Reuters) - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema ...
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British man appears in French court over death of his children
A British man accused of killing his two children appeared in court in the French city of Lyon on Monday to be formally put under investigation - the equivalent of being charged - for the murders.The judge ordered Julian Stevenson, 47, to be held in custody after he reportedly admitted to police that he had slit his children's throats during their first unaccompanied custody visit, but did ...
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Cannes Exclusive Media Inks Equity Slate Deal
U.K.- and L.A.-based Exclusive Media, the global film production, sales and distribution company, has inked a rolling four picture equity deal for up to 12 ...
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Catherine Field Plans to drop French-only teaching rule horrify purists
Could one of the last bastions of French be about to fall? To the horror of French language purists, the National Assembly will this week debate plans to roll back laws that require teaching at universities to be conducted only in French. A vote on the bill is expected on Thursday. The idea is the brainchild of Higher Education Minister Genevieve Fioraso. She says it is time for France to ...
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Mutual importance of Sino-Franco relations
China and France, two major regional powers in Asia and Europe respectively, have long had steady economic relations. Cultural ties have seen a disparity, however, which is perhaps due to the recently unsteady diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the last few months though, there has been a significant improve in this area.
France was one of the first western powers to recognize the People’s Republic of China as a legitimate country and established an embassy in the country before Great Britain, Germany or the United States. Since 2008, however, France has found itself often at odds with the emerging superpower, especially over its One China policy. Read more
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