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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
This year’s New York Film Festival opened Friday night with a screening of French director Laurent Cantet’s The Class . The film, which has already won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a multicultural classroom in Paris’ rapidly gentrifying 20th arrondissement. With the exception of the role of the teacher, who is played by the author whose memoir inspired the movie, the cast...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Film News: 'Class' opens in France -- Lots of new midrange releases jockey for position at the European box office this weekend where the key local bow is German terrorist drama “The Baader Meinhof Complex” and Gallic Palme d’Or winner “The Class” opens on home turf.
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ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Despite—or perhaps because of—its Palme d’Or win at Cannes earlier this year, word on the street is that Laurent Cantet’s The Class is a weak opening night selection for 2008 New York Film Festival, a tepid piece of liberal...
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Movies (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
by Leo Goldsmith (September 26, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot .] Realism is the mode du jour of international art cinema, so it's fitting that the New York Film Festival opens with Laurent Cantet 's Palme d'Or winner, " The Class ," an exercise in naturalist mise-en-scene, improvisatory nonprofessional acting, and immediate handheld cinematography. These tropes should by now be familiar...
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
"The Class [site], a French high-school drama that emerged as the popular underdog winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, belongs to the largely inspirational tradition of the classroom movie," writes Dennis Lim in the...
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Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
The Class has been picked up by France for the Best Foreign language film for the 81 st Academy Awards. The film won the Palme D’Or at Cannes and opened the New York Film Festival. The film was directed by Laurent Cantet and produced by Haut et Court. The film is adapted from Francois Begaudeau’s novel; the film chronicles the experienced of a teacher in an underprivileged Paris neighborhood. The...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
We been tracking the development for Grzegorz Jonkajtys’ The Ark , an animated short by Platige Image from Poland, with great interest for a long while. After making a few rounds at the festival circuit in 2007 where it has receive a nomination for the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and won the “Best of Show” prize at Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, Grzegorz has finally...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
The Class, the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, is to represent France for next year's foreign language film Oscar.Laurent Cantet's ...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Film News: Cantet film won Cannes' Palme d'Or -- "Entre les murs" (The Class) has been picked to rep France in the foreign-language film category at the 81st Academy Awards.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
The Class, winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is named as France's official entry for the 2009 foreign language film Oscar.
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/Film (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Numerous sources are reporting that Sam Taylor-Wood, a visual artist whose 2008 short film Love You More was nominated for the Short Film Palme d’Or, is slated to direct Nowhere Boy, a biopic based on the life of John Lennon. The project is now moving forward, and according to Screen Daily, the film will cover [...]
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Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
After it recent sales hit the Palme D’Or winner The Class, Paris based Memento Films Intl. is driving into the acquisition of international rights on U.S. titles as its expands its geographical reach as a sales company. It is all set to acquire the rights of the third feature by Yank Ramin Bahrani. Produced by New York’s Gigantic Pictures and Noruz Films, in association with Lucky Hat Entertainment...
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German Joys (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The questions on everyone's minds before the 2007 Cannes film festival was whether No Country for Old Men by old favorites the Coen Brothers, would win the Palme d'Or. Many observers expected it to. Instead, the Palm went to 4...
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The Open Piehole (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Everyday urban life can breed a sense of disconnectedness; one which Ruby the Pig struggles to fend off in “When the Day Breaks.” Beautifully animated with paint and pencil by co-directors Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, the film won the Palme d’Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 2000 Academy [...]
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Harry Dean Stanton is the traumatised wanderer in Wim Wenders' melancholic, Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece. Read our review Rating:5
