| May 2 |
- The girl who's also a boy
- A nifty Gothic fable about an intersex teen in a desolate coastal town is among the year's most striking debuts.
- Marilyn, Michael and the flying nuns
- Harmony Korine, the skate-punk Fitzgerald of the '90s, is back for his second act -- with a sweet and surprisingly lovely film, believe it or not.
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| May 5 |
- 10 to watch from Tribeca
- A hot Swedish girlfriend (who's undead), a Spanish math thriller, getting high with Ben Kingsley and the rest of the best from NYC's spring fest.
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| May 7 |
- Indie box office: "Mister Lonely" finds friends
- Harmony Korine's latest thrives in the shadow of "Iron Man," but this year's indie failures include some of the year's best films.
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| May 8 |
- The Iraq movie we've been waiting for
- Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war.
- A star is born (at age 51)
- As a married woman meeting her ex-lover 25 years later, Juliet Stevenson transforms a Lifetime-level middle-aged rom-com into delirious comic magic.
- Building a road from Bollywood to dullsville
- How can a gorgeous-looking movie about an adulterous interracial affair in 1930s India be so boring? Plus: The amazing Juliet Stevenson, sex symbol at age 51.
- Double shot of gloom for indie fans
- Leading film-blogger Glenn Kenny is out at Premiere; Warner Bros. to fold its Picturehouse and Warner Independent subsidiaries.
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| May 9 |
- If Austin Powers were French -- and funny
- He might be the star of "OSS 117," a deadpan, borderline-brilliant satire of postwar spy movies and preening Euro-idiocy in the Middle East.
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| May 13 |
- In-flight reading
- I'm en route to Cannes, to watch movies, drink wine and blog like crazy. Poor me!
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| May 14 |
- Yes we Cannes!
- Indiana Jones meets art cinema as the world's leading festival offers its most exciting lineup in years.
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| May 15 |
- Cannes opens with a dud -- but delights follow
- "Blindness" is an apocalyptic horror flick, rendered dull and pretentious. But an astonishing animated war film and a gripping prison drama provide the fireworks.
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| May 16 |
- Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa
- Arnaud Desplechin's wrenching "Christmas Tale" might just be a dysfunctional-family masterpiece.
- Rebels in a classless society
- Norwegian director Joachim Trier talks about "Reprise," his exhilarating coming-of-age film that blends Godard, "Trainspotting" and "High Fidelity."
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| May 17 |
- Woody Allen and Mike Tyson, together at last
- A marriage made in Cannes: Two notorious tabloid-fodder Yanks are showered with love on the Riviera.
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| May 18 |
- Indy and the Martian Inca mummies -- vs. the French!
- "Indy 4" premieres, Harrison Ford charms the Euro-throngs and Cannes surrenders to celebutainment silliness.
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| May 19 |
- Blood on the beach
- From a dizzying reinvention of the Mafia film to Tony Manero as serial killer to the death of Bobby Sands, it's a violent spring at Cannes.
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| May 20 |
- Clint, Angelina and the movie with no name
- Eastwood and his pregnant star bring their moody 1920s L.A. thriller to Cannes. But what's it called?
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| May 21 |
- Torn between "Two Lovers"
- In this podcast from Cannes, director James Gray talks about his intriguing romantic drama starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow and Isabella Rossellini.
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| May 22 |
- Soderbergh's spectacular "Che"-volution
- Messy, unfinished and utterly mesmerizing, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che Guevara opus, starring Benicio del Toro, sets Cannes buzzing.
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| May 23 |
- Moliere and Sesame Street go to Iraq
- John Cusack talks about his new film "War, Inc.," a nightmarish satire about waging an outsourced war in the Middle East. Wait, isn't that happening?
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| May 24 |
- Meet the film world's new Steve McQueen
- In this podcast interview from Cannes, the British artist turned filmmaker talks about Bobby Sands, Abu Ghraib and his sensational feature debut, "Hunger."
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| May 25 |
- Why the Cannes boo-birds are wrong (as usual)
- Argentine director Lucrecia Martel talks about her intriguing class-war drama "The Headless Woman" and its hostile reception at Cannes.
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| May 26 |
- At Cannes, a big win for old Europe
- 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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| May 27 |
- 10 from Cannes, with love
- From "Che" to a rowdy Paris high school to a murderous "Tony Manero," here are Cannes' 2008 hits-in-waiting -- and a few more that deserve a second look.
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| May 29 |
- "My kids think I work in a trailer"
- In this interview and podcast, Julianne Moore talks about being a normal mom and her distinctly abnormal role in the incest-murder drama "Savage Grace."
- Post-Cannes update: Sony claims "Bashir" and "Tyson"
- What art-house recession? Sony Classics buys Israeli animation, boxing doc, Belgian crime drama. IFC grabs "Gomorrah," but no word on "Che," "Synecdoche."
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| May 30 |
- Impaled on the windshield of life
- Is Stuart Gordon's black-comic horror movie "Stuck" just tabloid-fueled gore or American metaphor?
- "I Spit on Your Grave," Italian style
- Massive Euro-hit "The Unknown Woman" is ludicrous and trashy -- don't miss it! Plus: "Stuck" in a windshield and left to die.
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