Tag Archives: Cannes

Another Day of Heaven for Terrence Malick

by Indy | May 26, 2011

Film News: ‘Tree of Life’ Wins the Top Prize at Cannes – Terrence Malick’s Fifth Feature Claims the 2011 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

Producers Luc Besson, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and an unidentified guest

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Persona Non Grata

by Indy | May 20, 2011

Cannes Bans Unrepentant “Nazi” Lars Von Trier, Damien Hirst Joins Ai Weiwei Protest, and More Must-Read Art News – ARTINFO.com

Buh Bye! Lars Von Trier Kicked Out Of Cannes For Nazi Comments (perezhilton.com)
Whoops! Director Lars Von Trier’s ‘I’m A Nazi’ Comments Got Him Booted From Cannes (mediaite.com)
Film: Newswire: Lars Von Trier responds that he is neither Hitler nor Mel Gibson (avclub.com)

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BP’s Foreign Boots

by Indy | May 19, 2011

Peter Fonda calls Obama ‘traitor’ at Cannes – Yahoo! News

“I sent an email to President Obama saying, ‘You are a f(expletive)
traitor,’ using those words… ‘You’re a traitor, you allowed foreign
boots on our soil telling our military — in this case the coastguard –
what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the
United States, what we could or could not do’.”