Indie thriller wins at Deauville
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Indie thriller The Dead Girl takes the top prize at the Deauville American Film Festival in Normandy in France.
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"Eastern Promises," a Russian mob thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize on Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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The heist flick predictably debuted at top spot.
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&quot;Maria Full of Grace,&quot; a compelling tale of a Colombian girl who becomes a drug mule in an attempt to escape her country for the United States, won the Grand Prize at the Deauville film festival in France.
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A quirky teen-pregnancy yarn and a love story involving a life-sized sex doll have won over critics at the Toronto International Film Festival, stealing the spotlight from darker films on war and politics.
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The Forgotten plays by all the rules expected from paranormal thrillers to deliver a nice punch, hold the melodrama. By Jason Silverman.
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Both the media and the public love a winner, especially as summer blockbusters compete for first place.
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A movie about the Omagh bomb has scooped a prize at a major Canadian film festival. Pete Travisâs Omagh, which deals with the Real IRA atrocity that killed
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The thriller âBreachâ manages to excite and unnerve despite our knowing the ending.
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Independent film has a certain cachet, bringing to mind uncompromising, unkempt artists plumbing their genius to bring cold, hard truths to the corner cinema. Or maybe it brings to mind guys dressed as film canisters panhandling in L.A.
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Arts & entertainment: Going to the movies doesn't have to mean a faceless multiplex - the little, independent filmhouse is alive and thriving, writes Peter Bradshaw
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DEAUVILLE, France, Sept 9  - Film diva Nicole Kidman, 24 hours after dazzling the Venice film festival even if her new movie did not, was set for another star turn at yet another celebration of cinema on Thursday, this time in the French seaside
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Lesser-known movies are stealing the spotlight from star-studded ones at the annual Sundance Film Festival this week, making the top U.S. event for independent films among the least predictable in years.
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A sharp thriller by an A-list director with a strong cast tracks the sleuthing of the Zodiac killer
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"United 93," a tense drama focusing on one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks, won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
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Nicole Kidman plays a woman on the run from gangsters in Lars von Trier's "Dogville."
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Three young indie filmmakers have shown promise with strong, idiosyncratic debuts. Flouting conventions, however, may not be so easy on the road ahead.