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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival has added six films to its Special Presentations line-up for 2008. The films include four world premieres: Steve Jacobs' Disgrace, Vicente Amorim's Good, Spike Lee's Miracle At St Anna, and Peter Sollett's Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. North American premieres are Paolo Sorrentino's Cannes jury prize-winner Il Divo and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker.
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Ansa (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Venice, Rome and Turin threatened unless tax breaks restored
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Film News: Navarro, Kobayashi, Levy also picked -- Italo helmer Paolo Sorrentino, winner of the Cannes jury prize with “Il Divo,” will be among jurors at the upcoming Locarno Film Festival.
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http://www.cinemarealm.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival closed on Sunday, when the jury, with Sean Penn presiding, announced the winners. Here they are: PALME D'OR FOR BEST FILM The Class (Entre les murs), directed by Laurent Cantet In The Class, Cantet portrays a Paris junior high school teacher and his students over the period of one year. Starring François [...]
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Benicio Del Toro revealed his delight after being named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
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FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
As we already wrote “Entre les Murs” (”The Class“) directed by Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) at 2008 Cannes Film festival.Other winners included Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, two-time Palme d'Or recipients, who took the screenplay award for “The Silence of Lorna.” Sandra Corveloni, who played a working-class mother in São Paulo in Walter [...]
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angels in marble (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
'The third place jury prize went to Il Divo, Paolo Sorrentino's portrait of the country's former prime minister, Giulio Andreotti.' reports the BBC. How Mr Andreotti will like that - the discreet third place, but not ineffective or unrewarded. The only politician alive to hold a candle to Giulio Andreotti is Benedict XVI. They share the complex understanding of power. Metaphorically power is mercury:...
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Laurent Cantet's joyful, tragic "The Class" is the first French Palme d'Or winner in 21 years; Benicio del Toro named best actor for "Che."
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Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Indiewire has the winners of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and there are surprises all around. First, the Stateside scuttlebutt that Soderbergh's Che would be awarded the Palme d'Or was wrong. Benicio del Toro won the Best Actor award for the film, but the festival's top honor went to Laurent Cantet's Entre Les Murs ("The Class"), the latest from the director of Human Resources and Vers le Sud
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
In "Il Divo," which thanks to director Paolo Sorrentino must have the most stylistic gestalt of any film in competition, Servillo plays Giulio Andreotti, a fixture in Italian government since 1947 who was embroiled in corruption investigations in 1990s. Servillo plays Andreotti as a physically small but politically unstoppable Machiavelli in a large pair of glasses, exaggerated ears (pinned or prosthetic)...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Check out an interview with the director of “Palermo Shooting” which brought the Cannes festival to a close Saturday. Learn more about the latest wave of Italian cinema and the Bollywood film industry.
