Cannes films mirror a troubled world
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If cinema is the mirror of the  world, then the films at this year&#039;s Cannes festival suggest  the world is in a sorry state.
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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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EVEN by the standards of Cannes it was a lavish, glamorous affair. Hollywood film stars rubbed shoulders with pop stars and politicians.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Eighteen months after the outbreak of Israel's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, filmmakers from both countries have brought movies conveying frustration over the conflict to the Sundance Film Festival.
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After a 12-day lineup of weighty films, the Cannes Film Festival came to a close Sunday with a movie called "Days of Darkness" &#151; despite its title, a comedy. French-Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand, who won best foreign language Oscar in 2004 for his funny, moving, "The Barbarian Invasions," has a thing for over-the-top titles.
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CANNES, France  - Two-time Cannes winner Emir Kusturica brought a happy ending to the film festival on Saturday with a boisterous Balkan romp, breaking the mould for a competition full of dark tales.
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The 31st annual Toronto film festival  opened on Thursday amid warnings from critics that happy movies  are going to be few and far between, as themes from many of the  350-plus entrants reflect the grim state of the world.
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As it winds on, this year's Toronto Film Festival feels both utterly chaotic and at the same time governed by some strange, complex principle of symmetry.
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French movies rarely have taken the country's politicians as subject matter, but "Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars" -- screening in competition at the Berlin Film Festival -- breaks with that tradition, giving an often-intriguing glimpse of the final months of President Francois Mitterrand.
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Home-grown films will bring a foreign feel to this year's Toronto International Film Festival, as Canadian entries include a Russian mob thriller set in London, a look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and a search for heavy-metal music in Iraq.
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Pressures come with the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Faith Akin, director of âThe Edge of Heaven,â knows these pressures firsthand.
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Several critics are tipping a  hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted  Palme d&#39;Or at Sunday&#39;s Cannes Film Festival awards although  most say this year&#39;s race is tough to call.
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Two very different directors  have zoomed in on an individual&#039;s anguish in their new films,  bucking the trend at the Cannes film festival so far for  broader political and social dramas.
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Maybe it was the crippling writers'  strike or the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or was it  something in the expensive bottled water in Beverly Hills where  Oscar organizers are based.
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The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.
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A tragic screen portrait of Edith Piaf  kicks off the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday, a fitting  opening to a competition where women, many of them in trouble,  play a central role.
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Director Oliver Stone has given  the Cannes film festival the first glimpse of &quot;World Trade  Center,&quot; a tale of survival on the day of the September 11,  2001 attacks.