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  Jodorowsky's Dune: Cannes Review

  3:45 AM 5/19/2013

  • Stephen Dalton

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  Frank Pavich’s enjoyable documentary revisits a legendary unmade 1970s project by cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky. READ MORE

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• For Those in Peril: Cannes Review

  6:15 PM 5/18/2013

  • Stephen Dalton

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  Paul Wright's Scottish psycho-thriller is a veritable "Beasts of the Northern Wild." READ MORE

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  Inside Llewyn Davis: Cannes Review

  12:20 PM 5/18/2013

  • Todd McCarthy

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  The Coen Brothers' competition film starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake presents an outstanding fictional take on the early 1960s folk music scene. READ MORE

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• A Story of Children and Film: Cannes Review

  12:19 PM 5/18/2013

  • Todd McCarthy

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  Documentarian Mark Cousins excerpts 53 films from 25 nations to investigate the various ways childhood has been depicted in film. READ MORE

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  Bends: Cannes Review

  11:06 AM 5/18/2013

  • David Rooney

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  Carina Lau and Chen Kun star in Flora Lau's melancholy drama about a Real Housewife of Hong Kong and her personal driver, both facing crises. READ MORE

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  Thesis on a Homicide: Film Review

  8:28 AM 5/18/2013

  • Jonathan Holland

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  Hernan Goldrid's cat-and-mouse thriller revolves around a law professor investigating a murder on campus. READ MORE

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  Bite the Dust (Otdat Konci): Cannes Review

  8:03 AM 5/18/2013

  • Neil Young

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  The only Russian film in Cannes' Official Selection this year is an apocalyptic comedy from debutant director Taisia Igumentseva. READ MORE

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  Blue Ruin: Cannes Review

  5:22 AM 5/18/2013

  • Todd McCarthy

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  Jeremy Saulnier's talented but sophomoric low-budgeter straddles the divide between genre thriller and art piece with mixed results. READ MORE

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  Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: Cannes Review

  5:20 AM 5/18/2013

  • Deborah Young

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  Mathieu Amalric plays the ideal analyst to Benicio Del Toro's Blackfoot patient in the competition film exalting the work of ethno-psychoanalyst Georges Devereau READ MORE

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  American Dreams in China: Film Review

  10:37 PM 5/17/2013

  • Elizabeth Kerr

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  Veteran Hong Kong director Peter Chan returns with a familiar rags to riches story spanning 30 years and beginning in 1980s China. READ MORE

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  Le Demantelement: Cannes Review

  10:08 PM 5/17/2013

  • Stephen Dalton

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  Sebastien Pilote's family drama unfolds like "King Lear" with sheep in rural Quebec. READ MORE

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  Cape Spin: Film Review

  4:30 PM 5/17/2013

  • John DeFore

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  The fight over a Cape Cod wind farm makes for a doc consumed with bickering. READ MORE

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  Like Father, Like Son: Cannes Review

  3:54 PM 5/17/2013

  • Deborah Young

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  Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu returns to the theme of children living apart from their families. READ MORE

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  Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria: Film Review

  11:39 AM 5/17/2013

  • Frank Scheck

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  Jeff L. Lieberman's documentary concerns the little-known Jewish communities among Nigeria's Igbo people. READ MORE

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  Valentino's Ghost: Film Review

  10:17 AM 5/17/2013

  • John DeFore

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  Michael Singh explores the history of Arab depictions in American media and their effect on U.S. policies. READ MORE

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  Bidder 70: Film Review

  9:47 AM 5/17/2013

  • Frank Scheck

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  Beth and George Gage's documentary depicts the legal battle precipitated by a young protestor's act of civil disobedience. READ MORE

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  Stop the Pounding Heart: Cannes Review

  9:45 AM 5/17/2013

  • David Rooney

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  Italian director Roberto Minervini completes his documentary-style Texas trilogy with this intimate portrait of a goat farmer's 14-year-old daughter. READ MORE

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  Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Un Voyageur): Cannes Review

  9:42 AM 5/17/2013

  • Jordan Mintzer

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  Marcel Ophuls ("The Sorrow and the Pity") reflects on his life and career in this first documentary feature in nearly two decades. READ MORE

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  The Selfish Giant: Cannes Review

  7:35 AM 5/17/2013

  • Neil Young

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  Non-pro teen newcomers Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas star in writer-director Clio Barnard's second feature, a British drama competing in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. READ MORE

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  State 194: Film Review

  7:33 AM 5/17/2013

  • Frank Scheck

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  Dan Setton's documentary focuses on the efforts of former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad to have his territory accorded full member status in the United Nations READ MORE

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