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Actors Marion Cotillard, left, and Jeremy Renner arrive for the screening of The Immigrant at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2013.

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant."

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Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska'

For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson. Bruce Dern calls them "the obvious guys."
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Man charged with stalking Jennifer Lawrence's kin

A Canadian man is facing charges that he stalked the brother of Jennifer Lawrence after authorities say he repeatedly insisted that the man put him in touch with the Oscar-winning actress so he could protect her, according to court documents.
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'Deceptive Practice' ï¿½ finding meaning in the magic

If you only know Ricky Jay from his side career - as a character actor looming like a sinister talisman in the films of David Mamet, and in other work requiring an enigmatic and sometimes menacing presence - then you don't know the man at all.
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'Love Is All You Need' has feel-good vibe balanced by real-life problems

Susanne Bier, the Danish director who emerged from Lars von Trier's militantly minimalist Dogma school, is hardly known for her rom-coms. Damaged war veterans, paralyzed accident victims, dark family secrets ... not exactly a laff riot.
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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WikiLeaks tale goes beyond site founder Assange

LOS ANGELES - When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of powerful governments and corporations...
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Adventures in Barrywood: The French need to leave Jerry Lewis alone

There are times when I wish the French hated Jerry Lewis.
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Alexander Payne feels at home with 'Nebraska'

Writer-director Alexander Payne has been nominated for three screenplay Oscars and has won two. So what did the man responsible for films including "Election," "Sideways" and "The Descendants" feel about working with someone else's script for the first time?
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Jesse Eisenberg just might be the smartest actor in the room

ORLANDO, Fla. - Jesse Eisenberg earned an Oscar nomination playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In "Zombieland," he's the narrator who has figured out all manner of "rules" for surviving the zombie apocalypse.
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Takei says Cho good choice for latest 'Star Trek'

Portraying USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the latest "Star Trek" movie comes with big shoes to fill, but the man who played the part in the TV series and six films has given his blessing to the actor currently playing the role.