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Cannes Film Festival
Cannes 2014 was notable for many things – Nicole Kidman’s turn as Princess Grace in the risible ‘Grace of Monaco’; Timothy Spall’s Best Actor win for his role in Mike Leigh’s triumphant biopic ‘Mr Turner’; Abel Ferrara’s upstaging of the whole shebang with ‘Welcome to New York’, his thinly veiled satire about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which…
In the world of cool, only the Oscars can vie with the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival. Since 1956, Cannes’ Croisette has been host to legendary celebrity and mayhem. I should know: I’ve been clawing my way down that 2 km stretch of over-kerbed concrete for more than a decade, desperately fighting the crowds to…
Watching the clip, it’s Christopher Waltz’s face that strikes you. As the man with a (fake) gun and a (fake) grenade walks onto the podium of a live French TV chat show, the colour drains from the German Oscar-winner’s gob. He goes white as milk, which is the perfect counterpoint to the sapphire sea and…