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Cannes 2008 Reactions: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

by Ambrose Heron on 18/05/2008

Earlier today, the world’s press in Cannes finally got to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Would it be a Da Vinci Code style descent into a snake pit of critical derision or would Indy triumph whilst the doubters melted away like the Nazis at the end of Raiders? On the [...]

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Cannes 2008 Reactions: Blindness

by Ambrose Heron on 14/05/2008

The opening film of this year’s festival was Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. Based on José Saramago’s 1995 novel it is about an epidemic of blindness in a modern city. Here is a summary of some of the critical reaction: Jeffrey Wells [...]

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