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Cannes pays riotous homage to Bollywood by AP - 16 May 2011

CANNES, France (AP) Saris swished, heaved and swirled Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, as the rarified bastion of auteur cinema paid homage to the world's most popular movie industry: Bollywood. A montage of footage culled from nearly seven decades of Indian films, ... >>>

Pitt pokes fun at his parenting skills at Cannes by AP - 16 May 2011

CANNES, France (AP) Brad Pitt had reservations about playing a domineering dad in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," which premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. But Pitt had no hesitation joking that he does not spare the rod in raising his six children with Angelina... >>>

Documentary gives Khmer Rouge convict his say at Cannes by AFP - 17 May 2011

CANNES, May 15, 2011 (AFP) Duch, who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people as a Khmer Rouge prison chief in the 1970s, portrayed himself Sunday as a victim of circumstances in a documentary screened at Cannes. Cambodian director Rithy Panh filmed Duch a few weeks before the commander of Tuol... >>>

2 wheels good in Cannes entry 'Kid With a Bike' by AP - 15 May 2011

CANNES, France (AP) The latest Cannes Film Festival entry from Belgium's Dardenne brothers is the story of an abandoned boy, his unlikely savior and his beloved bicycle. "The Kid With a Bike" tells the alternately brutal and tender tale of 11-year-old Cyril, left in a children's home by... >>>

Depp back on high seas for 'Pirates of the Caribbean' latest by AFP - 14 May 2011

CANNES, May 14, 2011 (AFP) by Charles Onians Johnny Depp swung back into his iconic Captain Jack Sparrow role Saturday at the Cannes premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the fourth episode in the lucrative franchise. Three years after "At World's End", Sparrow... >>>