Sean Penn to head Cannes Film Festival jury
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Actor and director Sean Penn will head  the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the organizers  announced on Thursday, a move that could reinforce the event's  reputation for supporting left-wing causes.
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CANNES, France  - A documentary on Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, whose murder last year caused a growing rift between Moscow and the West, is to be shown as a late entry at the Cannes film festival, organizers said.
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CANNES, France  - The Cannes Film Festival pulled it off in its 60th year, picking a popular winner from an eclectic competition lineup that had many more hits than misses.
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Peter O'Toole, Kathleen Turner and critic Roger Ebert will provide the star power at the Savannah Film Festival, which runs Oct. 23-30.
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TORONTO  - Sean Penn is attached to play gay '70s San Franciso politician Harvey Milk, and Matt Damon his assassin in a long-gestating project from director Gus Van Sant.
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Sundance and Cannes have noted film festivals. Now Kearney is joining in.
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Harvey Weinstein can put away his shotgun. But Sean Penn might want to borrow it.
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Wilderness drama "Into the Wild," directed by Sean Penn and starring Emile Hirsch, topped a surprising list of Screen Actors Guild nominees on Thursday with four nods overall, including best ensemble cast.
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His sunglasses were heavy and so was  the theme when Sean Penn met the press at the Toronto  International Film Festival on Tuesday after screening a dark  look at the Nixon era that unleashed a new wave of Oscar buzz  about Penn's performance.
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La scelta degli organizzatori Ã¨ caduta sull'attore-regista americano"Una voce particolare, l'incarnazione di un aspetto dell'America che ci piace"                                          Sean Penn sarÃ  presidente della giuria di Cannes
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Roman Polanski and the Coen brothers are among 35 movie-makers directing short films for the 60th Cannes festival.
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Broadway invaded the Cannes Film Festival on Friday with a preview of the movie musical &quot;Dreamgirls,&quot; with stars Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles on hand to help show off scenes from the stage adaptation.
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Hollywood has turned serious with one eye on the Oscars in February, but it is elsewhere the jury may look when choosing which of 23 competition entries at the Venice film festival wins the Golden Lion on Saturday.
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French star Catherine Deneuve,  named best actress at 1998&#039;s Venice International Film  Festival, will head the main competition jury at the 63rd  edition of the event, organizers said on Wednesday.
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CANNES, France  - Critics are struggling to pick a winner ahead of Sunday's award ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, but several are tipping a hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted Palme d'Or.
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The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and honor the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the internationally minded festival.
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The guessing game is almost over at the Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the prize ceremony on Saturday evening. By the end of the annual 11-day marathon of movies, press conferences, interviews and parties, critics and journalists normally agree on a handful of films they think could win the top honor, although their predictions are not always correct.