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		<title>American influx at Cannes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American filmmakers dominate this year's line-up at France's annual glitzy celebration of cinema]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CANNES, France (AP) — Despite the mood in Europe, don't expect any austerity at the Cannes Film Festival, the annual Cote d'Azur extravaganza where glamour is wrapped in world cinema fervor and gauzy Mediterranean sunshine.</p><p>Except for the Oscars, it's the flashiest red carpet in the world, a ruby staircase flanked by tuxedoed photographers — and a world away from financial turmoil.</p><p>Yet Cannes, the 65th edition of which starts Wednesday, fetes its directors as much as it does its stars. This year, there are plenty of both: esteemed international filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and Michael Haneke to big-name talent like Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman.</p><p>Among the 22 films in competition, there's a particularly large American contingent, starting with the opening night film, Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom." The movie about adolescent love on the run brings a few new actors (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton) into Anderson's carefully orchestrated world.</p><p>Later, there's David Cronenberg's Don DeLillo adaptation "Cosmopolis," starring Robert Pattinson, and Walter Salles' ("The Motorcycle Diaries") anticipated adaptation of Jack Kerouac's beloved "On the Road." That film, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, stars Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund, but has attracted more attention for its supporting roles, including Pattinson's "Twilight" co-star Kristen Stewart as Dean Moriarty's girlfriend.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/05/15/an_american_influx_at_cannes_global_glamour_fest/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;The Kid With a Bike&#8221;: A heart-rending fable of good and evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belgium's Dardenne brothers turn "Bicycle Thieves" upside down in the wrenching fairy tale "Kid With a Bike"]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As anybody who's ever taken a film-history course knows, there's already a pretty famous European movie about a preteen boy and a bicycle. If Vittorio De Sica's 1948 neorealist classic "Bicycle Thieves" (in my day, and perhaps in yours, the English title was singular) is about a kid who has a father but must search for a lost bike, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's new film is about a kid who finds his bike but must search for his lost father. Whether or not you've ever heard of the Dardennes or their cinematic excursions into the social underbelly of Belgium's third-largest city, <a href="http://www.sundanceselects.com/films/the-kid-with-a-bike">"The Kid With a Bike"</a> is an edge-of-your-seat emotional roller-coaster ride, set among ordinary people in a nondescript neighborhood. It's a story about a 30-ish, unmarried hairdresser and an angry, abandoned child, and from those ingredients the Dardennes create something that's part thriller, part love story, part fairy tale and altogether wonderful.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/the_kid_with_a_bike_a_heart_rending_fable_of_good_and_evil/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;CSI,&#8221; if written by Chekhov</title>
		<link>http://www.salon.com/2012/01/04/csi_if_written_by_chekhov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" is a cop movie and a road movie -- but mostly it's gorgeous cinema]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, <a href="http://www.cinemaguild.com/anatolia/">"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia"</a> isn't a rediscovered spaghetti western from the 1960s, but Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is making a rather dry joke with his Sergio Leone-like title. An international film-festival favorite who remains largely unknown outside Turkey and Europe, Ceylan has been described as his country's answer to Ingmar Bergman -- a moral dramatist whose enigmatic, apparently realistic films explore the paradoxes of life in contemporary Turkey. You could call "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" a police procedural, but I don't want to mislead you; don't expect much action or suspense, at least not in the normal movie-world sense of those words.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/01/04/csi_if_written_by_chekhov/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Sleeping Beauty&#8221;: A young woman&#8217;s creepy sexual odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Browning bares all in Australian director Julia Leigh's disturbing fable of a world without consequences]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Australian novelist-turned-filmmaker Julia Leigh’s <a href="http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/sleeping-beauty">“Sleeping Beauty”</a> is one of the strangest pictures I've seen all year, and given my known proclivities, that's actually saying something. It plays like a mixture of not-that-softcore porn, Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist conceptual art, and seeing it near the beginning of last spring's Cannes festival was like drinking a tall, chilly draft of laudanum in the Riviera sunshine. Whether "Sleeping Beauty" is good-strange or bad-strange is a highly subjective question; I found it gorgeous, opaque and disturbing in roughly equal portions, but it's a riveting experience all the way through.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/12/02/sleeping_beauty_a_young_womans_creepy_sexual_odyssey/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Interview: Steve McQueen talks naked bodies and &#8220;Shame&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British artist-turned-filmmaker on his NC-17 drama starring Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted New Yorker]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you know about Steve McQueen as a legendary race-car-driving 1970s movie star but not as a British artist-turned-filmmaker who's one of the hottest talents in contemporary cinema, consider this your introduction. The younger McQueen -- and yes, it's his real name -- was born in London in 1969, about a decade before the movie star's death. By the mid-'90s he had become a prominent gallery artist on the burgeoning British art scene, but began to move toward narrative films and videos with such black-and-white, minimalist shorts as "Bear" and "Deadpan," the latter a restaging of one of Buster Keaton's most famous stunts.</p><p>McQueen broke into feature-length cinema in 2008 with <a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/03/18/hunger/">"Hunger,"</a> an extraordinary sound-and-vision experience that starred Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, a legendary Irish hunger striker who starved himself to death in a British prison. Largely a wordless, kinetic and almost physically grueling experience, "Hunger" was almost like a triptych built around an intensely talky scene between Sands and a visiting priest, in which the camera never moved. A movie that felt more like a transmission from an alien planet than a conventional historical drama, "Hunger" won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes (for best debut film at the festival) and went on to collect many more awards.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/12/01/interview_steve_mcqueen_talks_naked_bodies_and_shame/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;My Joy&#8221;: Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avoid cops, hookers and horny Gypsies! Country drive turns death trap in a dark fable of Russian history]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm startled to report that one of the darkest Russian films I've seen in a career of watching dark Russian films, Sergei Loznitsa's black-comic backwoods odyssey <a href="http://www.kinolorber.com/film.php?id=1171">"My Joy,"</a> will actually play American theaters (no doubt briefly) before moving on to a somewhat longer life as a home-video cult object. This mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic, maybe more so -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the 2010 Cannes competition. Despite what you might believe about that festival, audiences there generally flock to lighter fare, and few seemed to appreciate that "My Joy" had a bleak, grotesque, near-perfect poetry in its soul.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/my_joy_2/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pick of the week: &#8220;Take Shelter,&#8221; a potent fable of marriage and madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick of the week: The gripping "Take Shelter" channels Malick, Kubrick and the Coen brothers]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An intense psychological thriller that builds toward an explosive conclusion, indie writer-director Jeff Nichols' <a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/takeshelter/">"Take Shelter"</a> may be the most powerful American film I've seen this year. Having said that, I want to manage expectations a little bit. One can argue, and I will, that "Take Shelter" is a terrifically crafted little movie that bounces off current events and the nation's downbeat mood ingeniously, and that it variously suggests comparisons with the early work of Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick and the Coen brothers. Yeah, I think it's that good, but please note that I also said "little." This is a modestly scaled, character-based drama, shot quickly on a low budget in heartland locations. So don't go expecting big-screen spectacle, and don't complain to me about the limited production values or the imperfect CGI effects (although both are actually fine). I should add that I saw this movie while soaking wet, after walking through the residue of a recent tropical storm, and that given its obsessive depiction of extreme weather, that definitely heightened the firepower.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/take_shelter_potw/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The &#8220;Drive&#8221; backlash: Too violent, too arty or both?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ryan Gosling thriller has great reviews but dreadful word of mouth. Salon writers discuss what went wrong]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Thomas Rogers, Salon editor:</strong> So there seems to be an audience backlash against <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/09/15/drive_potw" class="storyLink">"Drive,"</a> a movie that you and a lot of other critics have been very fond of. It had decent opening weekend numbers (about $11 million, good for No. 3 on the charts), but the problem with the movie seems to be word of mouth: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/09/box-office-lion-king-drive-straw-dogs-contagion.html">Basically, people hate it.</a> It might have something to do with the fact that it's being advertised (at least on New York subway platforms) very ambiguously, with lots of glamorous photos of Ryan Gosling and Christina Hendricks, in a way that says very little about what the movie is about. People show up expecting a glossy sexy movie about a man driving a car, when in reality it's basically a hyper-violent European art-house movie that offers little in the way of car chases or romance. That's one way of thinking about it, but I honestly think the bigger problem is that this movie is too gut-churningly violent.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/09/23/drive_convo/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pick of the week: Ryan Gosling&#8217;s dynamite heist thriller</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The red-hot male sex symbol and Euro-cool director Nicolas Winding Refn team up for a sleek, romantic L.A. noir]]></description>
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    <em>Editor's note: This is a revised and updated version of Andrew O'Hehir's <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/20/drive">original review</a> of "Drive" from the Cannes Film Festival.</em>
  </p><p>Take the hottest young male sex symbol in Hollywood, add an immensely skillful young European director with a worldwide cult following and plug them into a classic Los Angeles heist-gone-wrong story that recalls both Roger Corman's B-movie aesthetic and the glossy Hollywood spectacles of Michael Mann. You probably know already whether that's a movie you'd line up around the block to see or one you'd pay to avoid. Either way, it's called "Drive," and it stars <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/ryan_gosling/">Ryan Gosling</a> -- who seems to have gone from indie actor and one-time Oscar nominee (for <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/24/btm">"Half Nelson,"</a> in 2006) to smokin'-est guy on the planet, almost overnight. It was made by fast-rising Danish director <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/17/btm">Nicolas Winding Refn,</a> whose eccentric career ranges from the insane medieval fantasy <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/07/15/valhalla_rising">"Valhalla Rising"</a> to the campy, stylized prison film <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/beyond_the_multiplex/feature/2009/10/08/brit_indies">"Bronson"</a> to his Copenhagen-set <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/17/btm">"Pusher"</a> crime trilogy.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/09/16/drive_potw/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Life, Above All&#8221;: Hope amid Africa&#8217;s AIDS epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarkable teen actress Khomotso Manyaka fuels this tale of resilience in a plague-ravaged village]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No doubt you need some sugarcoating to get ordinary moviegoers to focus on something as seemingly dire and desperate as the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and Oliver Schmitz's new film <a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/lifeaboveall/">"Life, Above All"</a> (which played to standing ovations at its 2010 Cannes premiere) nicely splits the difference between ethnographic realism and melodramatic uplift. There's a faint but distinct National Geographic flavor to this international production -- Schmitz is a white South African who now lives in Germany, and the film was financed in Europe and based on a Canadian novel -- but the all-African cast is superb and the setting highly convincing.</p><p>Shot largely in the Sepedi language in a remote South African town called Elandsdoorn, "Life, Above All" follows the difficult adolescence of Chanda, played by the amazing first-time actress Khomotso Manyaka, a lovely young woman with a sober, centered manner. After her infant sister dies of an unknown illness, Chanda begins to understand that her mother, Lillian (Lerato Mvelase), is also getting sick and that no one in Elandsdoorn wants to talk about it honestly. Their neighbor, Mrs. Tafa (the impressive Harriet Manamela), who owns both a television and a telephone and serves as the village's main conduit of information, seems suspiciously devoted to developing cover stories for the baby's death and Lillian's absence.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/07/15/life_above_all/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pick of the week: A dark, erotic &#8220;Leap Year&#8221; in Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick of the week: The tender, haunting Mexican "Leap Year" explores a woman's life and a kinky S/M affair]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We're probably better off not working too hard to interpret Michael Rowe's claustrophobic, erotic, ships-in-the-night drama <a href="http://strandreleasing.com/films/film_details.asp?BusinessUnitID={9C59ED8C-EABD-41AB-AC02-A4148B8F14C3}&amp;ProjectID={C414DE00-F856-4739-AE7D-9DCF012C476F}">"Leap Year."</a> This is a movie that might well lend itself to some heavy-duty analysis, whether that means post-Freudian gender-studies hoo-ha or post-colonial racial theory. But even by bringing that stuff up I run the risk of making "Leap Year" seem impossibly dreary, when in fact it's a gripping, mysterious use of no-budget cinema at its finest, and an intimate character study with surprising emotional power. (Be advised that there was another movie made in 2010 with this title. This one does not have Amy Adams in it.)</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/06/24/leap_year_2/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Tuesday, After Christmas&#8221;: A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama</title>
		<link>http://www.salon.com/2011/05/27/tuesday_after_xmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With brilliant acting and hypnotic takes, "Tuesday, After Christmas" is a new film by a hugely talented director]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.filmforum.org/films/tuesday.html">"Tuesday, After Christmas"</a> goes down pretty smooth, with a sneaky-powerful aftertaste. Yes, it's a Romanian film, but one set in an intimate, highly recognizable middle-class world of consumer capitalism, not some ultra-grimy zone of art-house despair. Its central romantic triangle, if that's not too glorious a term, involves a 40ish financial professional, his wife (who seems to be a lawyer) and his mistress (the family dentist). These people eat at McDonald's when they're in a hurry, debate whether to send packages by UPS or DHL, buy their daughter Barbie paraphernalia and a snowboard, plan a vacation in the Austrian Alps. Their homes are decorated in the neutral, tasteful style of the international semi-affluent bourgeoisie. And beneath the sleek, pleasant surface of their lives, suggests director Radu Muntean, dark forces are stirring like sea monsters in a placid sea. (This is Muntean's first American release, but he's almost as well known in Romania as Cristian Mungiu of <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/beyond_the_multiplex/feature/2008/01/27/4_months">"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"</a> and Cristi Puiu of <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/04/20/btm">"The Death of Mr. Lazarescu."</a>)</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/27/tuesday_after_xmas/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pick of the week: Malick&#8217;s gorgeous, crazy &#8220;Tree of Life&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick of the week: Fresh off its Palme d'Or win, can the gorgeous, goofy "Tree of Life" find an audience?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At least until <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/lars_von_trier/index.html">Lars von Trier</a> stole the spotlight by proclaiming his addled sympathy for Adolf Hitler -- and although we should've heard the last about that, we probably haven't -- Terrence Malick's long-awaited and long-delayed new film <a href="http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thetreeoflife/">"The Tree of Life"</a> was Topic A at Cannes this year. Frequently beautiful and even more frequently baffling, Malick's would-be masterpiece premiered to a confused chorus of boos and cheers and ended up by <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/22/palme_dor">winning the Palme d'Or,</a> Cannes' trademark prize. As jury president Robert De Niro put it, it was a movie with "the size, the importance, the intention -- whatever you want to call it."</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/27/tree_of_life_potw/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Iran slams Cannes for Von Trier Nazi ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iranian deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari blasts Cannes for banishing filmmaker after Nazi rant]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Iran says it has protested to the Cannes Film Festival over its decision to ban director Lars von Trier for saying he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.</p><p>Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency says deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari wrote to festival president Gilles Jacob saying Cannes had smirched its history by expelling the director.</p><p>Cannes banished von Trier after he told reporters that while Hitler "did some wrong things," he could "sympathize with him a little bit."</p><p>He later apologized and said it was a joke gone wrong.</p><p>In response to the Iranian letter, von Trier said Tuesday that his remarks were "unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful."</p><p>The festival included films by two Iranian directors who have been jailed by the country's Islamic regime.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/24/eu_france_cannes_von_trier/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ryan Gosling on the violence of femininity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The star of the adrenalized Cannes' hit "Drive" talks about why he didn't want to make another macho film]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CANNES, France -- <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/20/drive/index.html">"Drive,"</a> the stylish Los Angeles heist movie that has emerged as a smash hit at this year's <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com/">Cannes Film Festival,</a> started with a first date. That getting-to-know-you encounter was between Danish filmmaker <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/17/btm">Nicolas Winding Refn</a> and star Ryan Gosling, who had directorial approval on this long-simmering adaptation of James Sallis' noirish novella. In conversations here, both men have described their relationship in highly sexualized terms, while occasionally resorting to awkward reminders that in fact they're both straight, ha ha ha, and nothing <em>like that</em> really happened.</p><p>As they tell the first-date story now, Refn was ill with the flu and after they met for dinner Gosling wound up driving him home. (Refn does not drive, an irresistible if irrelevant footnote to this movie.) The ride was uncomfortably silent until Gosling switched on the radio, and REO Speedwagon's "I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore" began to play. Refn cranked it up and started singing along. Suddenly he understood the movie, he told Gosling: A guy driving around in Los Angeles at night, listening to the radio.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/23/ryan_gosling/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cannes: Malick&#8217;s &#8220;Tree of Life&#8221; wins Palme d&#8217;Or</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Pitt's small-town epic claims Cannes' big prize; Kirsten Dunst named best actress for von Trier movie]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CANNES, France -- In a strong and wide-ranging year for world cinema at its biggest annual trade show, the Cannes Film Festival concluded with a major American triumph. Terrence Malick's <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/16/the_tree_of_life">"The Tree of Life,"</a> a long-gestating epic starring Brad Pitt as a 1950s Texas dad, which sought to summarize its auteur's view of not just movies but human life and the universe, won the Palme d'Or. It's the first American movie to capture the film world's biggest non-Oscar prize since Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" in 2004.</p><p>At least Moore's film was a hit; the last American narrative feature to win the Palme was Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" a year earlier, a minimal and dark Columbine-inspired drama that found very little audience in the United States. Fox Searchlight will release Malick's film in American theaters this week, and couldn't have asked for a bigger or better publicity push. "Tree of Life" will presumably now be discussed as a factor in the Academy Awards race, but no film has won both the Palme d'Or and the best-picture Oscar since Delbert Mann's "Marty" in 1955.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/22/palme_dor/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Tree of Life&#8221; wins top Cannes fest honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terence Malick's long-awaited film walks away with the Palme d'Or]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terrence Malick's expansive drama "The Tree of Life" has won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival, while Kirsten Dunst took the best-actress prize for the apocalyptic saga "Melancholia."</p><p>The prize was accepted Sunday by two "Tree of Life" producers for the press-shy Malick, who skipped all public events at the glamorous Cannes festival.</p><p>Dunst won for her role in the end-of-the-world tale "Melancholia," whose director, Denmark's Lars von Trier, was banned from the festival after sympathetic remarks for Adolf Hitler at a press conference.</p><p>Jean Dujardin claimed the best-actor prize for the silent film "The Artist," in which he plays a 1920s Hollywood star whose career crumbles as talking pictures gain.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/22/eu_france_cannes_awards/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Lars von Trier: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be an adult&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banned from Cannes, the "Melancholia" director talks about Judaism, communism and his "Nazi" meltdown moment]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MOUGINS, France -- No, Lars von Trier is not a Nazi or an anti-Semite. He grew up with a Jewish stepfather, in fact (who he long believed was his actual father). He may, based on what he says about his teenage years, still have a flame burning for the ideals of communism -- and whatever you make of that, it's not the same thing at all. The permanently controversial Danish director of <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/beyond_the_multiplex/feature/2009/10/21/antichrist">"Antichrist"</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2000/09/22/trier_dancer/">"Dancer in the Dark"</a> saw his bad-boy reputation <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/19/von_trier_banned">blow up in his face</a> this week, when the <a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com">Cannes Film Festival</a> barred him from the premises after a catastrophic Wednesday press conference, when he said he sympathized with Hitler "a little bit" and jokingly declared himself a Nazi. But give the guy credit: Rather than fleeing back to Denmark to lick his wounds, von Trier has spent the last several days receiving journalists at his luxury hotel just outside this village amid the hills, villas and vineyards a few miles north of Cannes.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/21/lars_von_trier_interview/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hitler reacts to Lars von Trier</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the "Downfall" video the meme was made for!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trying to choose the greatest <a href="http://salon.com/ent/feature/2010/04/20/hitler_finds_out/index.html">Hitler reacts clip</a> would be like trying to choose the greatest <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/03/30/five_best_tawainese_animation_barefoot_contessa">Taiwanese animation</a> video. It'd be like trying to pick the most beautiful star in the night sky. (I will, however, admit, when pressed, a special fondness for Hitler finding out that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMsQqWdF4U">"Ugly Betty" has been canceled</a>.)</p><p>But of all the classic moments containing the portentous phrase "Mein F&#252;hrer," surely the one for which the meme was created dropped Thursday, when Hitler found out that <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/18/melancholia/index.html">"Melancholia"</a> filmmaker Lars von Trier had been banned from the Cannes Film Festival after making some unfortunate comments about <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/19/von_trier_banned/index.html">"the Nazi aesthetic."</a> Apparently not everyone likes a jokey "OK, I'm a Nazi," maybe in particular people whose country was occupied by Nazis.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/20/hitler_reacts_lars_von_trier/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cannes: Ryan Gosling&#8217;s dazzling, sleek new thrill ride</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "Half Nelson" star and a Danish director not named von Trier captivate Cannes with a red-hot L.A. heist movie]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CANNES, France -- Take an immensely skillful young European director with a worldwide cult following, a hot young North American actor with considerable cultural cachet and a classic Los Angeles heist-gone-wrong story that recalls both Roger Corman's B-movie aesthetic and the glossy Hollywood spectacles of Michael Mann. You probably know already whether that's a movie you'd line up around the block to see or one you'd pay to avoid, but either way it's called "Drive," it stars Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling (of <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/24/btm">"Half Nelson"</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/blue_valentine/index.html">"Blue Valentine"</a>) and it was directed by <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/review/2006/08/17/btm">Nicolas Winding Refn</a> (whose career ranges from the insane medieval fantasy <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/07/15/valhalla_rising">"Valhalla Rising"</a> to the campy, stylized prison film <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/beyond_the_multiplex/feature/2009/10/08/brit_indies">"Bronson"</a>), single-handedly trying to redeem Denmark's honor after <a href="http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2011/05/19/von_trier_banned">l'affaire Lars von Trier.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/05/20/drive_2/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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