Film

Period dramas premiere on day 10 of Cannes film festival

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CANNES - America's immigration debate finds echos in a period drama that premiered at the Cannes film festival on Friday about a Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island and fights to survive in 1920s New York.

Television wins new respect from movie elite at Cannes festival

CANNES - Actors and directors gathered for the world's leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen.

Fashion, Television, Media 10:20am EDT

WikiLeaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange

LOS ANGELES - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may claim to be a champion of transparency, but when an Oscar-winning filmmaker wanted to shine a light on his rise to fame after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, Assange was none too pleased.

Fashion, 9:11am EDT
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New book asks: Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor?

BERLIN - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years.