Japan’s ‘Shield Of Straw’ An Action Pic In Cannes
May 20th, 2013CANNES, France (AP) — Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks. His Cannes Film Festival entry “Shield of Straw” is a robust thriller about a team of police tasked with escorting a child-killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head safely across the country. “It
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Seen And Heard At The Cannes Film Festival
May 20th, 2013CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: AHNA O’REILLY FETED AS SHE CELEBRATES TWO CANNES FILMS Along the water on the yachts where many of the Cannes Film Festival’s uber-exclusive parties are thrown, guests are required to take off their shoes before stepping on the boat
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AP Interview: Soderbergh On Quitting Movies
May 20th, 2013NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency. In his Chelsea studio, among various film posters and piles of moviemaking mementos, he has a few paintings in progress, including a new, livelier, “more Hendrix” version of a U.S. dollar bill. It’s only one of the many artistic endeavors he bounces between
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Amalric Plays A Frenchman In America In ‘Jimmy P’
May 20th, 2013CANNES, France (AP) — Playing a Freudian analyst helped Mathieu Amalric overcome his fear and loathing of psychotherapy. The French actor depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro’s Native American war vet in “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian,” director Arnaud Desplechin’s Cannes Film Festival contender. Based on a true case study from
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‘Apple Of My Eye’ Star Turns To First Love: Music
May 20th, 2013HONG KONG (AP) — Fans know her as the sweet schoolgirl in the 2011 blockbuster “You Are the Apple of My Eye.” Now, they can take a closer look at Michelle Chen through her first love: music. After she graduated from the University of Southern California and returned home to Taiwan, her initial attempts to
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