Top honors to be awarded at Cannes Film Festival in France

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Top honors to be awarded at Cannes Film Festival in France
Deutsche Welle
No one film is a shoo-in for best film this year as the 62nd Cannes Film Festival comes to a close although the festival has showcased several impressive new films. Among the contenders is France’s “Un Prophete” (A Prophet) by director Jacques Audierd a well-liked and gripping prison drama and “Fish Tank” by Britain’s Andrea Arnold the story an unhappy teenager. New Zealand-born Jane Campion who won the festival’s highest honor 16 years ago for “The Piano” is hoping to do so again with her film “Bright Star”. The biopic recounts the love story of Romantic poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne.
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Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian …
guardian.co.uk
uk Sunday 24 May 2009 16. 15 BST Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent. The week-long festival supported by the British council and Unesco has brought several high-profile international authors ? among them Henning Mankell Michael Palin and Ahdaf Soueif ? on a speaking tour of Jerusalem and the West Bank. Shortly before the opening event was due to begin a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre in east Jerusalem and ordered it to be closed.

Tarantino loves going into movie mode at Cannes
The Associated Press
“I had such a good time and it brought back memories of me being on the jury that when I went home I went into my DVD collection and I picked 14 films from all over the world that I had never seen and decided to have my own little Cannes Film Festival” said Tarantino who is competing again at Cannes with the World War II epic “Inglourious Basterds. “”In the course of like a week and a half I watched those 14 movies and then judged them as if I was on a jury a jury of myself just watching them. And then I gave out my own little awards.

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