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  1. Cannes 2012: Sony Pictures Classics Takes Historic Drama 'No'

    1:36 am PDT 5/22/2012
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    In director Pablo Larrain’s drama, from Participant Media, Gael Garcia Bernal plays an advertising executive who designs a campaign against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Read more

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    The Angels' Share: Cannes Review

    1:17 am PDT 5/22/2012
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    Veteran social realist director Ken Loach's drama follows a young Glasgow man caught in a destructive cycle of violence, criminality and long-term unemployment. Read more

  3. Cannes 2012: 'Paperboy' Director Lee Daniels on His 'Precious' Follow-Up and Why Zac Efron Is 'Hungry' (Q&A)

    10:44 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    The helmer talks about his Competition entry “The Paperboy” and how Cannes is an out-of-body experience. Read more

  4. Cannes 2012: Download THR's 'Daily' Guide to Cannes

    7:00 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    In The Hollywood Reporter's Cannes Daily No. 7, the bloggerati picks their Oscar contenders and Rupert Everette is set to make his directorial debut. Read more

  5. Cannes 2012: French Distribution Label Ad Vitam Picks Up 'Miss Lovely'

    7:00 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    The Un Certain Regard selection is helmed by Indian director Ashim Ahluwalia. Read more

  6. Cannes 2012: Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Unveiled by Harvey Weinstein

    6:39 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    TWC also offers first peeks at Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" and David O. Russell "The Silver Linings Playbook." Read more

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    After Lucia: Cannes Review

    6:15 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    Mexican director Michel Franco's grim drama delivers an unflinching example of the high-school bullying phenomenon at its worst. Read more

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    Trashed: Cannes Review

    5:48 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    Candida Brady's ecological documentary stars Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons. Read more

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    Hold Back: Cannes Review

    4:55 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    Rachid Djaïdani's Parisian comedy-drama features a twist on the well-known "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story" tales. Read more

  10. Cannes 2012: Adrian Lyne's 'Back Roads' Finally Gets Financing (Exclusive)

    3:41 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    RCR is backing the steamy thriller, which returns Lyne to the director's chair for the first time in a decade. Read more

  11. Cannes 2012: Early Oscar Buzz Centers on Michael Haneke's 'Amour,' Marion Cotillard

    1:29 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    The "Rust and Bone" star and Austrian filmmaker shoot to the top of prognosticators' lists. Read more

  12. Cannes 2012: Paul Verhoeven's 'Tricked' Pre-Sold to Three Countries

    12:40 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    The drama with the tag line "lies always backfire" focuses on a real estate tycoon and womanizer whose life gets turned upside-down. Read more

  13. Maddened by his Absence (J'enrage de son absence): Cannes Review

    12:40 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    William Hurt stars as Jacques, a man who is unable to overcome a tragic past. Read more

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    Peddlers: Cannes Review

    12:34 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    The first feature by Indian writer-director Vasan Bala focuses on two destitute 20-year-olds who fall into Mumbai’s drug trade and a young cop who stalks them. Read more

  15. Cannes Day 6: 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!' Premiere, 'Like Someone in Love' Photocall

    12:12 pm PDT 5/21/2012
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    On a cloudy Monday, the red carpet premiere for Alain Resnais' ode to theater took place. View gallery

  16. Cannes 2012: Paul Andrew Williams to Direct Holocaust Drama 'Sobibor'

    11:37 am PDT 5/21/2012
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    The true story of an escape from the Nazi concentration camp reteams director Williams with his "Song for Marion" producers Egoli Tossell and Steel Mill. Read more

  17. Paul Thomas Anderson Premieres 'The Master' Teaser (Video)

    11:24 am PDT 5/21/2012
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    The "There Will Be Blood" and "Boogie Nights" filmmaker premiered a teaser trailer for his upcoming drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix. Read more See All Videos

  18. Cannes 2012: Zurich Film Festival to Launch Mini-Market For German-Language Productions

    11:24 am PDT 5/21/2012
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    The new industry platform, called ZFF Filmboutique, will feature productions made in Germany, Austria and Switzerland over the past 12 months. Read more

  19. Cannes 2012: U.K.'s Pulse Films Opens U.S. Offices

    10:58 am PDT 5/21/2012
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    The company's work includes Katy Perry concert film "Part of Me 3D." Read more

  20. Goodbye Berthe: Cannes Review

    10:49 am PDT 5/21/2012
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    The collaboration between the actor-writer-director duo Denis and Bruno Podalydès focuses in a conventional farce about love, death and family ties. Read more