Festival de Cannes : 2008

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Hey Look It’s Mars!
Published 5/26/2008 by Evil Beet at Evil Beet Gossip
... . And then everybody will be so glad we funded the Mars program. Man, there’s nothing else going on right now. Benicio del Toro took home the best actor nod at Cannes (ahem … “Prix d’interprétation masculine”) for his role in the 4-hour Stephen Soderberg opus, Che . And ...

Links for the Day (May 26th, 2008)
Published 5/26/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... : From the L.A. Times . The complete list of winners can be found here . [ "What a difference 21 years makes. In 1987, the last time a French film won the Palme d'Or, the audience at the Palais du Festival was so angry at the choice of "Under the Sun of Satan" that it hooted furiously and the director, Maurice Pialat, yelled right back. But when Laurent Cantet's masterful "Entre les Murs" won the top prize at the Festival de Cannes on Sunday night -- one of only two unanimous votes, jury president Sean Penn revealed -- the audience erupted in ecstatic rhythmic applause, which ...

The 2008 Cannes Film Festival Awards Have Been Announced… Should You Care? [Film Festivals]
Published 5/28/2008 by Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects
... with a few recognizable faces on the jury. Sean Penn was this year’s jury director which many people thought would guarantee awards for any left-leaning political diatribes in competition. Michael Moore definitely missed an opportunity here. The beautiful and beguiling Natalie Portman and the equally beguiling (but not so beautiful) Alfonso Cuaron joined Penn, along with six other filmmakers from around the world. A partial list of the big winners is below. Head over to the official Cannes website for a complete listing. The Palme d’Or (aka Golden Palm) ...