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Yesterday | Globe and Mail

Review: Heading South, by Dany Laferri re

Southern heat Dany LaferriA re Dany Laferrire's Heading South is a series of sex-filled vignettes involving different races and classes in Haiti Jason Anderson Published on Wednesday, Dec.

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Related Topix: Haiti, World News, Central America,

Tue Dec 08, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Christmas DVDs

From Slumdog Millionaire and Snow White to Ice Age, Philip Horne picks the year's best DVDs.

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Related Topix: A Christmas Tale, Star Trek, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, In the Loop, The International

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Arthouse films

Opening this week on the local film-society circuit: 'Between the Folds' For her first documentary, Vanessa Gould tracks an international string of specialists who fold paper with brilliant precision.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Origami, Chicago, IL, Chicago Metro, Sports, Movies, Entertainment

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Houstonpress.com

Last Call For Art: Mack The Knife, French Film And Invisible Billboards

Get ready for the closing curtain of Rice University's production of Threepenny Opera .

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Related Topix: Rice University, Musical Theater, Arts, Movies, Entertainment, Houston, TX, University of Houston

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Variety

Primer Plano ups local distribution

Company takes Argentine rights to 'Hermanos' MADRID -- Pascual Condito's Primer Plano is firing up domestic distribution, taking Argentine theatrical and DVD rights to Daniel Burman's "Dos hermanos." The deal, marking Primer Plano's return to handling high-profile local titles, reps "the most important step this company's taken in the last five to ...

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

Canada.com

Cannes winner closes fest

Organizers at the Festival du nouveau cinA©ma oversold their press conference yesterday to announce details of the 37th edition, Oct.

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Related Topix: Of Time and the City, Hunger, New York

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Lansing State Journal

French Film Festival set for Oct. 19-23 at college

OLIVET - Olivet College will host a French Film Festival Oct. 19 to 23 in Mott Auditorium.

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Related Topix: Olivet, MI, Olivet College, I've Loved You So Long

Fri Oct 09, 2009

FilmCritic

St. Trinian's

Though it offers a few smiles and steers clear of laughs altogether, Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's British import St.

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Related Topix: St. Trinian's, The Importance of Being Earnest, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Tue Sep 29, 2009

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Movie Night Schedule: The Class

Time: 2009 Oct 26 19:00 - 21:10 Summary: France. 2008. 130 minutes. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Fri Sep 11, 2009

Canada.com

Quickflicks: Your Weekend Guide to the Movies

The story: A small film from independent director Lance Hammer, who hired non-professional actors to portray a single mother, her troubled son and her lonely brother-in-law, all of them trying to make ends meet in the Mississippi Delta.

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Related Topix: Gran Torino, Inkheart, Last Chance Harvey, New in Town

Fri Sep 04, 2009

The West Australian

French director heads film festival jury

French director Laurent Cantet, whose docudrama "The Class" won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will head the jury at Spain's San Sebastian film festival later this month, organisers said Friday .

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment, Spain, World News,

Sun Aug 30, 2009

Charleston City Paper

CofC welcomes Francophiles for Film Fest

Comme excitant! Le dixime festival de film franais annuel est finalement ici! Translation: How exciting! The 10th annual French Film Festival is finally here! The College of Charleston French Film Fest kicks off its tenth anniversary on Thurs., Aug.

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Related Topix: College of Charleston, Summer Hours

Fri Aug 28, 2009

Kansas.com

Get educated in education

It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Education Etc., Election, Comedy Movies, Teenagers, Movies

Wed Aug 26, 2009

The Daily Page

Wilmington on DVD: The Class, Kagemusha, Hannah Montana, The Last House on the Left

Laurent Cantet's schoolroom drama, shot in a documentary-like, lustily improvisatory style, pits a determined combative French teacher, M. Marin , against a racially and socially diverse, and highly voluble and extroverted, class of inner-city Parisian kids, few of whom are interested in the subject and some of whom are actively hostile.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Hannah Montana, Movies, Tatsuya Nakadai, Drama Movies, Adventure, Starman, Science Fiction Movies

Mon Aug 24, 2009

Northwest Herald

Head of the Class: 10 flicks to get you ready for school

Reese Witherspoon stars as the ambitious Tracy Flick in 1999's "Election." It's the time of year when kids load up their backpacks and educators make sure all their red pens are in working order.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Election, Comedy Movies, Reese Witherspoon, Family, Kids, Education Etc.

Sat Aug 22, 2009

Deseret News

5 foreign films released

In the world of U.S. DVD releases, it's far from the norm to see five foreign films released from five companies in a single week - but here they are, all recent and a couple of them very good.

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Thu Aug 20, 2009

Clover Herald

Capsule reviews of new DVD releases

I LOVE YOU, MAN 2.5 stars. $29.99. 105 mins. Without any male friends to serve as best man in his wedding, an uptight financial planner man-dates to find his new BFF.

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Related Topix: I Love You, Man, Wedding, 17 Again, Paris 36, Education Etc.

Tue Aug 18, 2009

Holtville Tribune

Out On Home Video

Out On Home Video - by Lisa Miller: The Class, 17 Again, I Love You Man, Road Trip: Beer Pong, See No Evil, Chaos, Adventure of English, Dollhouse, The Soloist, Delgo, Obsessed and Race to Witch Mountain.

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Related Topix: I Love You, Man, 17 Again

Sun Aug 16, 2009

Salt Lake City Weekly

Race Out and Rent

In Section: Movies Blog >> Posted By: Scott Renshaw If you're looking for light comedic fare, it's not a bad week in the DVD release world.

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Fri Aug 14, 2009

USA Today

New on DVD: 'The Class,' 'I Love You, Man'

A French Oscar nominee set in a modern, multi-racial Parisian classroom and a retrospective on James Dean 's early career are among this week's top selections on DVD.

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Related Topix: I Love You, Man, The Soloist, High Sierra, Film Noir, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Thriller, Movies, Entertainment

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Directed by Laurent Cantet

Starring Francois Begaudeau and Nassim Amrabt

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