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Television wins new respect from movie elite at Cannes festival

By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Actors and directors gathered for the world's leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen. TV series like "The Wire," "Homeland", "Mad Men," "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones", which have won critical and commercial success, were cited for breaking down the division between movies and TV, giving audiences innovative viewing.

'Before Midnight' review: Joy and pain, long after happily ever after

By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - As a rule, we like our love stories to end with a big kiss between the boy and the girl (or other combinations thereof) who have overcome obstacles and issues before setting off together on a life of perfect, eternal romance, unsullied by imperfection or boredom or change or unhappiness.

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

Cannes goes from bling to crisis with US road movie

Cannes turned its back on bling Thursday with a road movie set in today's crisis-ravaged American Midwest, featuring the latest standout performance by a star from Hollywood's 1970s golden age. After a raft of films at this year's festival gorging on wealth and splendour such "The Great Gatsby" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring", "Nebraska" stars Bruce Dern in what director Alexander Payne called a film for the modern "depression era".

In film, audiences and talent shift from cinema to TV

Cinema audiences are migrating to television, followed by Hollywood writers, actors and directors, who look to the small screen as a place for greater artistic freedom and easier financing, say industry figures at the Cannes Film Festival. "The Wire," "Mad Men," "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" are among the critical and commercial successes on TV whose makers include some of the best talent in Hollywood.

Redford steals Cannes show with comeback film

He has almost no dialogue and the character he plays is never named, but Robert Redford delighted Cannes on Wednesday in his first meaty starring role in years, a solo performance as a lost-at-sea yachtsman fighting for his life. Now a hardy 76, the leading man of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting" and "Out of Africa" carries "All Is Lost" by J.C. Chandor single-handedly, with just a few scripted lines.

Redford steals Cannes show with comeback film

He has almost no dialogue and the character he plays is never named, but Robert Redford delighted Cannes on Wednesday in his first meaty starring role in years, a solo performance as a lost-at-sea yachtsman fighting for his life. Now a hardy 76, the leading man of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting" and "Out of Africa" carries "All Is Lost" by J.C. Chandor single-handedly, with just a few scripted lines.

Redford steals Cannes show with comeback film

He has almost no dialogue and the character he plays is never named, but Robert Redford delighted Cannes on Wednesday in his first meaty starring role in years, a solo performance as a lost-at-sea yachtsman fighting for his life. Now a hardy 76, the leading man of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "The Sting" and "Out of Africa" carries "All Is Lost" by J.C. Chandor single-handedly, with just a few scripted lines.
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