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Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Days of Heaven, 1979

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Days of Heaven, 1979 Prix de la mise…

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Take My Breath Away: In Defence of 1983's Breathless

Breathless looks music-video slick and drips with style, creating the sense of a heightened reality set on the streets of L.A. This is the nouvelle vague for the MTV generation. The story and characters in both films may seem similar, but to call the 1983 Breathless a remake is a naive assumption.

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