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The jury of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Sean Penn, named the Prize winners. At the end of the ceremony, Barry Levinson’s closing film What Just Happened? starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Bruce Willis was screened for the audience. The Palm d’Or remained in France - it was awarded to French director Laurent Cantet for his film Entre Les Murs. Clint Eastwood received prize for The Exchange. But most notable prize for best male role went to Benicio Del Toro for his role as Che Guevara in the 4-hour epic CHE by Stephen Soderbergh. 

BEST FEATURE FILMS:
Palme d’Or: ENTRE LES MURS by Fench director Laurent Cantet
Grand Prix: GOMORRA by Matteo Garrone

Prize of the 61st Festival de Cannes ex-aequo
Catherine Deneuve for UN CONTE DE NOËL by Arnaud Desplechin
Clint Eastwood for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange)

Award for the Best Director
ÜÇ MAYMUN  (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Jury Prize
IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino

Best performance by an Actor
Benicio Del Toro for CHE by Steven Soderbergh

Best Performance for an Actress
Sandra Corveloni for LINHA DE PASSE by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas

Award for the Best Screenplay
LE SILENCE DE LORNA by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

SHORT FILMS
Palme d’Or: MEGATRON by Marian Crisan
Jury Prize: JERRYCAN by Julius Avery

CAMERA D’OR
HUNGER by Steve McQueen (Un Certain Regard)

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  The jury of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Sean Penn, named the Prize winners. At the end of the ceremony, Barry Levinson’s closing film What Just Happened? starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Bruce Willis was screened for the audience. The Palm d’Or remained in France - it was awarded to French director Laurent Cantet for his film Entre Les Murs. Clint Eastwood received prize for The Exchange. But most notable prize for best male role went to Benicio Del Toro for his role as Che Guevara in the 4-hour epic CHE by Stephen Soderbergh.  BEST FEATURE FILMS: Palme d’Or: ENTRE LES MURS by Fench director Laurent Cantet Grand Prix: GOMORRA by Matteo Garrone Prize of the 61st Festival de Cannes ex-aequo Catherine Deneuve for UN CONTE DE NOËL by Arnaud Desplechin Clint Eastwood for L’ÉCHANGE (The Exchange) Award for the Best Director ÜÇ MAYMUN  (Three Monkeys / Les Trois Singes) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Jury Prize IL DIVO by Paolo Sorrentino Best performance by an Actor Benicio Del Toro for CHE by Steven Soderbergh Best Performance for an Actress Sandra Corveloni for LINHA DE PASSE by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas Award for the Best Screenplay LE SILENCE DE LORNA by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne SHORT FILMS Palme d’Or: MEGATRON by Marian Crisan Jury Prize: JERRYCAN by Julius Avery CAMERA D’OR HUNGER by Steve McQueen (Un Certain Regard) ()

  Killed: Rob Knox, an actor from new "Harry Potter" movie
  Rob Knox, an 18 year old actor who plays minor role of Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming 6th installment of “Harry Potter” called “Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince”, was stabbed after he got caught up in a fight outside a bar in southwest London early Saturday, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The new episode is scheduled to be released at Thanksgiving holiday in November. Warner Bros., the studio that is producing the film, said it was shocked by the news. Knox was one of five young men taken to various hospitals after the brawl, police said. Among them was a 21-year-old who has since been arrested on suspicion of murder. The fight did not appear to be gang-related, police added, but it puts the number of violent teenage deaths in London at 14 so far this year. ()

  Hot new DVD releases for May 20, 2008
  

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  (2007) PG-13 Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) and Dr. Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) — who found riches and romance at the end of their first hunt for national treasure — reteam with their wisecracking partner in crime, Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), for another romp through U.S. history. Now, armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth’s diary, Ben is obsessed with finding the truth behind President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. DVD (Widescreen and 2-disk collector’s edition), Blu-Ray

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  Short Circuit (1 & 2)

  (1986/2008) PG After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he’s human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton (Steve Guttenberg), who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. Mistaking the robot for an alien, spunky animal lover Stephanie (Ally Sheedy) takes him in and teaches her new guest about life on Earth. This high-tech comedy adventure hit spawned a 1988 sequel. DVD and Blu-Ray.   ()

  Netflix offers movie streaming via their $100 set-top box
  Netflix, the largest movie rental company, had for years been promising to begin streaming movies straight to TVs, and last year announced plans with LG to build a set-top box that would allow that. Netflix has just announced their new set-top box called Roku. With $8.99/month unlimited subscription, you may be able to queue the movies you want to see through Netflix’s website. The choice of movies to see will be limited to what’s in your queue. Netflix actually calls it an advantage to AppleTV because user’s won’t have to browse through 10,000 titles using the remote to see what they want - the web interface is much better at it. There is also a delay between new DVD releases and availability of these movies online. Roku offers both wired and wireless-G network connectivity. There’s a variety of outputs: HDMI, component, composite and S-video. While only SD shows are available currently, the company said HD shows will become available soon as well. The set-top box is connected to the Internet and its firmware is upgradable through download. It appears Roku will become a competitor of Apple’s AppleTV box. The major differences are:

  1. Roku has wireless-G connectivity, AppleTV has Wireless-N connectivity (up to 6 times faster).
  2. Roku is almost twice smaller then AppleTV
  3. AppleTV has a hard disk drive. Netflix claims that due to their streaming algorithm design, there’s no necessity for hard drive.
  4. AppleTV will also stream video, photos and music from your computer. Roku won’t.
  5. AppleTV starts at $229, Roku costs $100. XBox 360 costs about $300.

  Regardless, it will probably save Netflix tons of money on shipping costs. ()