Best movie mutt is saluted in Cannes

Source: Reuters Mobile

PARIS (Reuters) - Frivolity and fur erupted on the sidelines of the Cannes film festival on Friday, as a fluffy white dog named Smurf was bestowed the prestigious "Palm Dog" award for a performance deemed "magnifique" by the event' ...
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Hurt, Bonnaire Reunite For Cannes Entry

Source: Hollywood Reporter

CANNES - William Hurt might seem like an unlikely candidate for the leading role in a French movie, but he happens to have fathered a child with the director. He and Maddened by his Absenc ehelmer Sandrine Bonnaire met in 1991 while filming The Plague a ...
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Can This French Star Translate?

Source: The Daily Beast

A few months ago, a French police officer in uniform bummed a cigarette from actor Omar Sy outside a bistro on Paris’s Champs de Élysées. She shot the breeze with him as if they were long-lost pals, but Sy was a little leery at first. Having grow ...
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French movie touches global audience

Source: Los Angeles Times

The meteoric performance of"The Avengers"has been the buzz of Hollywood in recent weeks, with the superhero film zooming to more than $1 billion in worldwide receipts in just 19 days. But the real box-office shocker of the season features ...
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'The Intouchables' could touch a nerve

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

Anne Le, left, Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy are navigating race and class in France. (Credit: By Thierry Valletoux,, The Weinstein Company) The Intouchables is an exuberantly charming French buddy comedy that proves ...
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Movie Listings for May 25-31

Source: The New York Times

Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies . ‘American Animal’ (No rating, 1:35) The writer, director, editor and star of this mini-budg ...
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Capsule reviews of feature films

Source: Miami Herald

ACT OF VALOR 1 1/2 stars. This action film's claim to fame is that it stars active-duty Navy SEALs. The problem is that these stoic warriors infect Act of Valor with more wooden acting than you'd see at a ventriloquism sc ...
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Second Annual Edition: If I'd Been Tweeting from Cannes...

Source: Time Magazine

But with 40,000 visitors every mid-May, the world’s largest annual convention is host to many more than 140 characters. And I don’t mean just eccentric stars promoting their movies, like Sacha Baron Cohen in Dictator drag getting oiled ...
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The Intouchables: France's Biggest Hit Dares You to Resist Its Charms

Source: Time Magazine

The film is not an action-adventure; it boasts no top-name actors. Unlike other recent Euro-hits, it is not based on a famous novel (the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy) or beloved comic book (the Asterix and Obe ...
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Saint Gregory VII Feast Day Friday

Source: Manila Bulletin

MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Church honors today the memory of Saint Gregory VII, one of the greatest Roman Pontiffs of all time. Venerated as the greatest reformer of the Medieval Church, the Italian saint, named after ...
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