Benicio del Toro

Cannes honour for school film

bbc.co.uk     25-May-2008   45 related          

Unruly pupils rile their teacher in a clip from The Class French movie The Class, about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival....                    

'The Class' takes top prize at Cannes

upi.com     26-May-2008   4 related          

CANNES, France, May 25 (UPI) -- "The Class (Entre les murs)" took the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival in a unanimous decision by the jury, Daily Variety reported. Director Laurent Cantet's film -- based on French writer Francois Begaudeau's experiences as a middle school teacher, was...                    

Short but sweet victory for Aussie at Cannes

news.com.au     25-May-2008   10 related          

From correspondents in Cannes May 26, 2008 07:35am Short but sweet ... Australia's Jury Prize winner Julius Avery, left, celebrates with Romanian director Marian Crisan, winner of the Palme d'Or best short film award for Megatron / AP A FRENCH film about an inspired teacher in a tough urban...                    

Cannes films mirror world’s bleak mood

inquirer.net     25-May-2008   7 related          

CANNES, FRANCE—The movie mood at Cannes this year was bleak, mirroring concerns sweeping the world. Of the 22 films competing for Cannes’ precious Palme d’Or to be awarded on Sunday, only six stuck strictly outside the boundaries of the socially relevant to focus on the strictly personal. Setting...                    

De Niro sends up Hollywood and Cannes in new film

abs-cbnnews.com     25-May-2008   15 related          

Reuters Robert De Niro plays a movie producer whose professional and personal life lurches from crisis to crisis in a new comedy on the cut-throat world of Hollywood and its relationship with the Cannes film festival. The final scenes of "What Just Happened" play out in the Riviera resort where...                    

Cannes 2008 - The Hardware

livingincinema.com     25-May-2008          

It screened yesterday after most buyers and many journalists had already gone home, but Laurent Cantet’s Parisian classroom drama Entre Les Murs (The Class) took the top prize Sunday night at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. It’s the first French film to win the Palme d’Or since Maurice Pialat’s...                    

Benicio Del Toro wins Cannes award as ‘Che’

pinoyportal.ca     26-May-2008   27 related          

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La fin du monde

macleans.ca     26-May-2008          

It’s 2 am, and too late to be typing. It was a full evening, beginning with the awards and ending with a windblown party at the Majestic Beach, with one last screening squeezed in between. The Cannes jury, chaired by Sean Penn, awarded the top prize, the Palme d’Or, to one of the last films [...]                    

Villeneuve, Egoyan win at Cannes

thestar.com     25-May-2008   7 related          

Peter Howell Movie Critic CANNES, France–Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and Denis Villeneuve have won major prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, in advance of tonight's awarding of the coveted Palme d'Or. Toronto's Egoyan, 47, took the Ecumenical Jury prize for Adoration, his multi-layered...                    

Who was Che Guevara?

independent-bangladesh.com     25-May-2008   2 related          

Reuters, London- At the 61st Cannes film festival, director Steven Soderbergh presented Che, his two-part, four-hour-plus epic on Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, with Benicio del Toro in the title role.Here are some facts on Guevara, who was executed in Bolivia just over 40 years ago.