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Cannes jury head Nanni Moretti, director of the Vatican-themed comedy "We Have a Pope", voiced a pang of regret Wednesday for the days when the jury was secretive as a conclave."There were two taboos left in the world: the silence after the Cannes awards ceremony, and the conclave -- now only the conclave remains," the Italian told a press conference on the Riviera film festival's opening day.Moretti's "We Have a Pope", shown in Cannes last year, centres on a conclave and the secret...Read Full Story

"Moonrise Kingdom", a bittersweet American family romp with an all-star cast about the thrill and sting of first love, delighted audiences as it opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival Wednesday.The picture by US director Wes Anderson, best known for "Fantastic Mr Fox" and "The Royal Tenenbaums", brings together another of his signature ensemble casts, featuring Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton and Edward Norton.They form the backdrop to a story hinged on two precocious 12-year-olds who...Read Full Story

French feminists on Friday slammed the Cannes Film Festival for failing to include a single woman director in the line-up for the Palme d'Or top award that kicks off next week.There are no female film-makers among the 22 competing for the top award at the May 16-27 festival, and just two among the 17 in its new talent section "Un Certain Regard": France's Catherine Corsini and Sylvie Verheyde."All 22 films in the official selection were written, happy coincidence, by 22 men," the feminist...Read Full Story

The editors of all 19 editions of Vogue around the world pledged Thursday to use only healthy models no younger than 16 on their editorial pages in an attempt to shift fashion's approach to body image.Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue's flagship US edition, and Emmanuelle Alt of Paris Vogue, which touched off a furor in 2010 with a photo spread featuring a 10-year-old girl, are among the editors who agreed to the pact."Vogue believes that good health is beautiful," said Jonathan Newhouse...Read Full Story

The 2012 line-up of the Director's Fortnight sidebar to the annual Cannes Film Festival was unveiled on Tuesday in Paris, an eclectic selection of 21 films of all formats."This line-up is above all one of enjoyment, and it's made so that the spectator goes from laughing to tears from one film to another and within the same film," said the sidebar's new artistic director Edouard Waintrop."Deep emotion, that's what drew me to cinema," added the former newspaper cinema critic at the Paris press...Read Full Story

"Please Look After Mom", a novel of family love and loss by award-winning author Kyung-Sook Shin, has sold more than two million copies in her homeland South Korea, the publisher said Tuesday.Lee Sang-Sul, director at publisher Changbi, said only two other novels since the 1990s had sold more than two million in South Korea, "so it's a rare achievement for a pure literary work".Shin last month became the first South Korean to win the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize with the novel, which...Read Full Story

Videogame powerhouse Bethesda Softworks said Thursday that it is delaying the sequel to alien-abduction videogame "Prey" because it is not up to snuff.Bethesda made the announcement amid rumors that it had pulled the plug on a "Prey 2" science-fiction shooter videogame planned for release in time for the year-end holiday season."Development of 'Prey 2' has not been canceled but the game will not be released in 2012 as planned," Bethesda said in a release."The delay is due to the fact that...Read Full Story

Thirteen years after "American Pie," the adolescents from the worldwide hit movie are back for a fourth helping, still tempted by the juicy bits despite having grown up, somewhat, in the meantime.Released in 1999, the original was the latest to tap into US movie-goers' huge appetite for adult-rated comedies, harking back to 1978's "Animal House" and more recently demonstrated, arguably, by the "Hangover" films.Famous for a scene in which Jason Biggs pleasured himself with an apple pie, the...Read Full Story

A virtual adventure at sea with storms and battles, a new "jewel box" for Asian art and a high-tech building shaped like a bathtub: Amsterdam's landmark museums are getting facelifts to catapult them from their dusty pasts into the 21st century.The makeover of three of the capital's most important museums, the Maritime Museum, the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum, has been hailed as the dawn of a "new cultural golden age" to attract the 12.2 million visitors to Amsterdam every year.At the...Read Full Story

"Titanic" director James Cameron began an underwater solo submarine mission to the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, mission partner the National Geographic said.Cameron "has started his descent to the ocean's deepest point," the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, according to a tweet from the organization's DeepSea Challenge.The Canadian filmmaker left the tiny Pacific atoll of Ulithi on Saturday for the mission some 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) down in the...Read Full Story