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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Two Hollywood legends make their comeback at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, as Kevin Costner launched his sprawling self-funded Western and Demi Moore returned in a gore-filled body horror flick. The star-studded premieres arrive midway through the world's most famous movie festival, where "Emilia Perez" -- a musical about a transgender drug lord, starring Selena Gomez -- is currently the talk of the town. Epic Western "Horizon, an American Saga" is a passion project for Costner, who told AFP he had started working on the screenplay in 1988. Despite having enormous...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - As one of the West's most famous Buddhists, and a close friend of the Dalai Lama, Richard Gere has thought long and hard about the moral quandary at the heart of his new film "Oh, Canada". Gere plays Leonard Fife, a revered documentary filmmaker with a murky past, who is hailed as a hero for his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. "Whether it is a just or unjust war, can I kill someone? What do I do to defend our family?... We all ask ourselves that question," Gere said at Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. According to his Buddhist studies, "from an absolute point of ...
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Paris (AFP) - This year's Cannes Film Festival hosts a trio of heartthrobs from the back end of the 20th century, making their comeback on the red carpet: Demi Moore, Kevin Costner and Richard Gere. From "Ghost" to "Pretty Woman" to "Dances with Wolves", they are responsible for some of Generation X's favourite movie moments. AFP looks at what they've been up to since. Demi Moore: ghost girlOn the Croisette, 61-year-old Moore will be making her unexpected return in slasher-horror "The Substance", competing for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. It has been a long time since Moore came a...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Hollywood titan Francis Ford Coppola returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday to unveil his enormously hyped, wildly experimental and deeply divisive "Megalopolis". The 85-year-old director's arrival at the world-famous movie festival -- where decades earlier he twice scooped the top prize Palme d'Or -- has been the frenzied talk on cafe terraces in the swanky Cote d'Azur city. Would the epic $120-million project that he self-funded, and that has been gestating for some 40 years, be another masterpiece emerging from chaos, like "Apocalypse Now" all those decades...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Meryl Streep shared intimate anecdotes from her career at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday, including falling in love when Robert Redford washed her hair and leaving her Oscar in the toilet. A long-standing critic of gender inequalities in Hollywood, she also said why she thinks there were so few good roles for women in the past... 'Out of Africa'Streep recalled the famous scene in which co-star Redford washed her hair in a river. "We had lions. They were imported from California and supposedly tame, but they were not... And we were shooting in the river and there w...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig, heading the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, said Tuesday she was amazed at the improving status of women in the film business and welcomed concrete changes like intimacy coordinators on sets. There has been a lot of talk about the #MeToo movement in France ahead of the festival, following mounting allegations against iconic actor Gerard Depardieu and several directors. Gerwig, who became the first woman director to make a $1-billion movie last year with "Barbie", said she was optimistic about the improving role of women in cinema. "In ...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - There is a strong case to be made that Meryl Streep, who picks up a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, is the most respected actor of her generation. Streep, 74, has amassed a record haul of awards and built a filmography of modern classics that stretches across six decades, from dramas such as "The Deer Hunter", "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "Kramer vs. Kramer", to family favourites like "Mamma Mia!" and "The Devil Wears Prada". It is her vocal skills that have often set her apart -- from the Danish drawl in "Out of Africa" to her...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - It is an offer they still can't refuse: Francis Ford Coppola will lead a parade of veteran American movie titans back to the Cannes Film Festival next week in a likely swansong for the "New Hollywood" generation. The director of "The Godfather" will be joined by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas and "Taxi Driver" writer Paul Schrader on the French Riviera for the world's most famous film gathering, where all three men enjoyed success in their 1970s heyday. Half a century later, Coppola and Schrader will compete head-to-head for the festival's coveted Palme d'Or with their ne...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - The cast of new HBO series "The Idol" on Tuesday defended its overtly sexual scenes and rejected rumours of onset turmoil, after the show scandalised critics at Cannes. "We know we are making a show that is provocative, it's not lost on us," director Sam Levinson told journalists the day after the series premiered at the film festival on the French Riviera. The show depicts Lily-Rose Depp as a pop star struggling to get back on track after a breakdown, surrounded by heartless handlers, when she meets the manipulative leader of a modern-day cult, played by musician Abel ...
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Cannes (France) (AFP) - Leonardo DiCaprio lauded Martin Scorsese's filmmaking "ferocity" on Sunday as they basked in rave reviews at Cannes for their Native American crime epic "Killers of the Flower Moon", while the festival also bowed down before Jude Law as King Henry VIII. Scorsese's latest opus, about a wave of murders among oil-rich Osage Indians in the 1920s, was hailed as "searing", a "triumph" and a "masterpiece" by critics who scored the Cannes Film Festival's hottest ticket for the premiere the previous night. Based on a non-fiction bestseller, the film sees DiCaprio as a weak-wille...
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