The Oscar race may only just be over, but the Cannes Film Festival is closer than you think — as the newly unveiled festival poster reminds us.
Cannes celebrates its 65th birthday with Marilyn
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:36 pm · February 29th, 2012
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Interview: Kenneth Branagh on his 'dangerously obvious' casting in 'My Week with Marilyn'
Posted by Roth Cornet · 10:43 pm · December 19th, 2011
Kenneth Branagh embraced what he describes as potentially “dangerously obvious” casting with his portrayal of Sir Laurence Olivier in “My Week with Marilyn.” Now with Golden Globe, SAG and BFCA nominations under his belt it would be somehow poetic if the actor/director were to take home the Best Supporting Actor statue for his depiction of the man who paved the road for much of the trajectory of his own career.
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Interview: Simon Curtis on the indelible Marilyn Monroe and the role as Hamlet for an actress
Posted by Roth Cornet · 8:52 pm · November 22nd, 2011
Director Simon Curtis attempts to capture the essence of an ephemeral icon with his “love letter” to cinema gone by “My Week with Marilyn.”
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Williams shines but 'Marilyn' buckles under an uncompelling perspective
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:42 am · October 10th, 2011
Simon Curtis’s “My Week with Marilyn” gives actress Michelle Williams a grand opportunity to shine. But the film itself suffers under the burden of a perspective not all that compelling.
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Michelle Williams takes on Marilyn Monroe in the first trailer for 'My Week with Marilyn'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:36 pm · October 5th, 2011
With Simon Curtis’s “My Week with Marilyn” set to play the New York fest later this week, The Weinstein Company has finally dropped an impressive trailer for the film.
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