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Can Demetri Martin be a movie star? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Sure, everyone loves an auteur. But the Cannes festival just ended -- and from which we're just now returning (caveat: posting a little slow in the next couple days as we take a few Parisian days to... Read More...
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Cannes waves a white ribbon by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We were glad to see that the Vegas oddsmakers (that we conjured up) were on the money about the Palme d'Or. Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," the frontrunner since its premiere on Thursday (side note: it seems....
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The odds (and evens) from a solid but not groundbreaking Cannes by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Last year we got out of Dodge on a high note, having seen Laurent Cantet's excellent social drama "The Class," which went on to win the Palme d'Or, just before our train pulled out. This year we... Read More...
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White Ribbon could get top ribbon by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We just may have our Palme d'Or winner. Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" played like gangbusters at its Palais premiere tonight -- no easy feat for a movie that's in German, shot in black-and-white, is set in...
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At Cannes, Lars von Trier is the Antichrist by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik You've got to hand it to Lars von Trier. He gives the people what they want. Not in his filmmaking, necessarily. But if by 'people' one means controversy-starved writers at Cannes, and what they want is, well,... Read More...
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Forecasting a Palme d'Or for 'A Prophet?' by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Forecasting the Palme d'Or is the cocktail-party game of the Cannes Film Festival. It's also the sucker's bet. Everyone has a theory (pet hypothesis du jour: Michael Haneke stands a good chance because jury chair Isabelle...
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The Mother of new directions by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Ang Lee is the kind of director who switches gears more often than Lance Armstrong. But this year at Cannes, everyne seems to be pulling an Ang Lee. And Lee himelf? He's biking down a whole different... Read More...
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Scorsese on directing a new movie: I don't like thinking about the work by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

Martin Scorsese, speaking with us in an interview at Carlton, about his efforts to salvage old prints -- and ensure that studios preserve new ones -- at the World Cinema Foundation he created. "It's a little like making a movie.... Read More...
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Apart from the Korean, the priests and the intravenous tubes, it's Just Like Twilight by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Of all the thoughts you had when you saw "Twilight" this year -- hey, keep it clea!n -- the one you probably didn't have was: what would happened if someone crossed this movie with "Doubt"? But then,... Read...
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A British 'Squid and the Whale,' swimming in the wrong era by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik There's nothing like seeing a movie in 2009 and thinking it would have been a hit in 2004. It makes one feel so....out-of-sync? Discombobulated? Old? That's the first reaction we had to "Fish Tank," Andrea Arnold's...
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Pixar loves 3D. Except when they love 2D by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik John Lasseter loves 3D animation and all the 21st century technology. Or is it hand-drawn animation and all the 50's technology? A room that started out tepid at the opening-day press conference in Cannes for Pixar's "Up"...
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In 'Blink,' Al Pacino will smell the scent of Malcolm Gladwell by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Like everyone else who's ever read the New Yorker or caught a glimpse of the book that guy on the plane next to them is reading, we've been mystified as to how Malcolm Gladwell's nonfiction bestseller "Blink"....
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Paul Walker offers some Protection by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Everybody in Hollywood wants the next "Taken" -- a modestly budgeted thriller that makes up for in premise and action what it lacks in big stars or flash (and turns into a $220 million global hit). One... Read More...
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Why American directors can't stay in a French Palme by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik The Palme d'Or may seem like a twee, only slightly relevant prize to the American film industry. But it's been an oddly accurate barometer of the state of U.S. filmmaking - or at least the high-end film... Read More...
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The Croisette Diaries by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik We've been so busy running around and hitting screenings these last few days that we haven't had time to do what we like to do -- post reactions to those screenings. A few biggies showed over the... Read More...
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