huffingtonpost.com - 5/14/2009
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CANNES, France — The evening gowns glittered, the red carpet was unfurled _ and the 3-D glasses were at hand as the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday with the soaring animated adventure "Up."
"Up'"s delighted filmmakers from Pixar Animation joined the crowd of stars and cineastes on the red carpet in this French Riviera resort and said being invited to Cannes was a dream come true.
"We're just a bunch of animation geeks from northern California on the red ...
indiewire.com - 5/14/2009
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indiewire.com —
Katie Jarvis was having an argument with her
boyfriend across a train platform at Tibury Town station...
in the East of England when she was approached by a casting director for Andrea Arnold’s second feature, “Fish Tank.” Jarvis, who’d never acted before, didn’t believe she was actually being ...
The discovery of Cannes (so far)? Katie Jarvis.
hollywoodreporter.com - 5/14/2009
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hollywoodreporter.com —
More Cannes reviews CANNES -- "Tetro" looks like
the work of a film school grad, his head...
swimming with the classic black-and-white European films of the '50s and '60s and his mind unable to shake his struggles with his family. And yet, its author is ...
Film Review: Tetro
independent.co.uk - 5/14/2009
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independent.co.uk —
The highs and lows of Pixar are on
show in Up , the celebrated animation company's first...
feature film made entirely in 3D. It's also the first cartoon to open the Cannes Film Festival and audiences were greeted with red 3D goggles to celebrate the ...
First Night: Up, Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival opens with Tilda Swinton’s bad hair
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... with Pitt as leader of a group of Jewish soldiers hunting down Nazis.
The lineup looks strong, but festival organizers and industry attendees are apprehensive about how the global recession will affect the event. Festival director Thierry Fremaux said he expects attendance to be up slightly from last year, but Vanity Fair magazine has canceled its annual Cannes party, and some soirees are rumored to have swapped champagne for sparkling wine.
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As HuffPo mentioned, French actress Isabelle Huppert is the jury’s ...
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The Wrap RSS 5/14/2009
By Eric Kohn According to Francis Ford Coppola, the whispers of behind-the-scenes drama were premature. A few weeks ago, reports circulated about the "Godfather" director's decision to refuse an invitation to screen his latest ...
NIS Bring Local Slate of Productions to Cannes —
IFTN News Feed 5/14/2009
With two major US productions set to film in NI this year, Northern Ireland Screen are focusing on bringing local talent and productions to this year's Cannes Film Festival revealing five new home-grown productions in the works
Freedman – Irish 'Producer on the Move' —
IFTN News Feed 5/14/2009
Ahead of his participation at the 'Producer on the Move' programme in Cannes this week, producer Andrew Freedman from Venom Films talked to IFTN on his goals and the projects that he is taking to the programme