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Watch An Exclusive Clip from Maïwenn's Gripping Cannes Winner 'Polisse'

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This time last year, Maïwenn's "Polisse" was days away from winning the Cannes Jury prize. It would go on to travel the global festival circuit and pick up a pair of Césars along the way (it was nominated for thirteen). Sundance Selects releases the film May 18, and adult audiences should treat themselves to this very human drama. Writer-director and co-star Maïwenn leads her ensemble cast (including Emmanuelle Bercot, who co-wrote) through the aches, pains and necessary-to-survive humor of her French police officers working within Paris' Child Protection Unit.

By Sophia Savage
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May 10, 2012 12:05 PM
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Trailer for Hillcoat's 'Lawless' Whets Our Appetite Prior to Cannes Debut

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The trailer for John Hillcoat's prohibition-set "Lawless" -- set to premiere in competition at Cannes -- has arrived. Nick Cave wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of Matt Bondurant's novel, "The Wettest County in the World." The star-studded cast of Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Guy Pearce does a fine job whetting our appetite. Watch below:

By Sophia Savage
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April 25, 2012 1:17 PM
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Trailer Watch: 'Boardwalk Empire' Teases Third Season

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The third season of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" won't bow until this fall, but two teasers are now available to whet your appetite.

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April 23, 2012 4:03 PM
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Marketing Movie Marketing Takes Meta-Promo Too Far

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I once got into a debate on Twitter about whether it was a journalist's job to post trailers and posters and new photos of upcoming movies--thus helping distributors to market their product.

By Anne Thompson
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April 17, 2012 4:29 PM
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Trailer Watch: Oliver Stone's 'Savages' - Movie Stars, Drug Lords, Philanthropists & Threesomes

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On July 6, Oliver Stone's "Savages" debuts with its cast of one-time movie stars and potential movie stars, from John Travolta, Salma Hayek Benicio Del Toro and Uma Thurman to Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson and Blake Lively. Among the new trailer's revelations...

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April 5, 2012 3:21 PM
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Trailer Watch: Winterbottom's 'Trishna' Heats Up with Pinto & Ahmed

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A new trailer for Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna" is here, and utilizes its beautiful actress and locale to sell the adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of The D'Urbervilles," the dramatic tale of class, sex and sacrifice -- this time set in contemporary India. We're excited, but early reviews...

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April 5, 2012 2:02 PM
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Trailer Watch: Michelle Williams Carries Sarah Polley's 'Take This Waltz'

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Sarah Polley's follow up to 2006's "Away from Her"--which earned two Oscar nominations, for Julie Christie's acting and Polley's adapted screenplay-- is almost here. "Take This Waltz," starring Michelle Williams, Luke Kirby, Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman, has a new trailer that reveals more than the first one...

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April 5, 2012 12:11 PM
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Trailer Watch: Woody Allen's 'To Rome with Love'; We're Already Nostalgic for 'Paris'

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Woody Allen's "To Rome with Love" looks more like "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" than "Midnight in Paris," which is bad news. It would be difficult to top the charm of "Midnight," even with a luscious Penelope Cruz.

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April 3, 2012 5:08 PM
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Trailer Watch: Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' Punches America in the Face

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Keith Olbermann anyone? Actually, Jeff Daniels' news anchor, at the start of Aaron Sorkin's new HBO series "The Newsroom" (June 24), is an upstanding objective news anchor without political bias until he completely loses it--under video grilling that goes viral. Like Peter Finch in Sidney Lumet's 1976 "Network," he's mad as hell and he isn't going to take it anymore. Daniels ("The Squid and the Whale") is a terrific actor; I first met him at the start of his career, playing Debra Winger's husband Flap, on the set of "Terms of Endearment" in 1982.

By Anne Thompson
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April 3, 2012 3:51 PM
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'We Have a Pope' Director Nanni Moretti Talks Taking On The Vatican and Woody Allen (Video)

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With "We Have a Pope," top Italian writer-actor-director Nanni Moretti takes us behind the scenes of a place that we are forbidden to enter, not unlike "The Queen" or "The King's Speech." He imagines what would happen if a Vatican cardinal finds out that he's elected as the Catholic Church's supreme religious leader, panics and rejects the job.