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Cannes 2010: Rise of the unsung stars


Woody Allen’s newest project can be expected to draw a crowd and Russell Crowe’s revisionist Robin Hood will win a strong following. But at this year’s model of the Cannes Film Festival, the work of emerging filmmakers — relative unknowns — will be front and center.
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It was 40 years ago (last week)

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All due props: On May 8, 1970, the Beatles released “Let It Be,” what would be their final album, and a record that’s achieved a lofty, almost mythic status despite the acrimonious, painful, personal crises that attended its creation, and the breakup of its creative entity. Brothers Laurence Peters and Mike Peters, writing in Pop Matters, look back at the genesis and the legacy of one of rock's true masterworks.

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