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Welcome to the Cannes Film Festival 2012!

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Editor's Note: Press Play has two critics covering the Cannes Film Festival this year. Simon Abrams and Glenn Heath Jr. are tag-teaming their way through the most anticipated collection of screenings in the film industry. This is your ticket to Cannes. Enjoy!
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  • By Glenn Heath Jr. & Simon Abrams
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  • May 20, 2012 2:08 PM
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Simon Abrams, Glenn Heath Jr., Sergio Leone, Michael Haneke, Matteo Garrone, Michel Gondry, Jacques Audiard, Yousry Nasrallah, Wes Anderson, Walter Salles, Andrew Dominik, Leos Carax, Kôji Wakamatsu

CANNES 2012: Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM

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"Moonrise Kingdom" is a great success, both within the context of Wes Anderson's body of work and as a work unto itself. Initially, however, its Wes- Anderson-y-ness is almost off-putting.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • May 16, 2012 9:18 AM
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More: Cannes Film Festival, Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Bob Balaban, Simon Abrams

PICTURES OF LOSS: THE DARJEELING LIMITED, directed by Wes Anderson

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About a year-and-a-half after my father died, I was at the Ohio Theatre (a former Loew’s movie palace in Columbus, Ohio) waiting for a screening of To Kill a Mockingbird to begin when I mindlessly reached for my inside jacket pocket. I seldom wear the navy blue blazer I had on, and I suppose I was curious to see what old to-do list or movie program I might find stuffed in it. What I found instead was some unused Kleenex tissue, neatly folded in the shape of a square. “What was that doing there?” I thought at first.
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  • By Peter Tonguette
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  • November 22, 2011 10:14 AM
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More: Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited, Peter Tonguette, Gregory Peck, To Kill A Mockingbird, Rushmore

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