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The twice Oscar-nominated filmmaker's latest project, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight, which is being screened out of competition, is the only feature-length film by a major UK director at this year's event.

Pregnant reality star KIM KARDASHIAN has fuelled rumours she's expecting a daughter with rapper KANYE WEST - the invitations to her baby shower feature a dancing ballerina.

Two men suspected of killing Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of US political activist Malcolm X, have been remanded in custody in Mexico.

Battles and skirmishes. Living history scenarios. Confederate and Union camp life displays.

Baz Luhrmann's film The Great Gatsby has the turbulent emotions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

For so many of us, Julie Andrews loomed large in our childhoods, a constant presence through repeated viewings of those two iconic films, MARY POPPINS, and THE SOUND of MUSIC.

Gary Rapkin, Bonita Unified School District superintendent, is a lifelong devotee of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Take the kids on an educational outing that they are sure to remember. The Ronald Reagan Library and Museum is open to visitors and you can get an impressive history and political education while you are there.

Richard Hanks, author of This War is for a Whole Life: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850-1966." A lecture on the fight for Indian sovereignty in Southern California will feature speaker Richard A. Hanks at 7 p.m. Saturday May 18, at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center Gathering Hall in Banning.

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most prestigious directors in Hollywood , and he's worked with some of the best actors in the industry.

Dozens of mourners have gathered inside the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland for services to remember Malcolm X's grandson, Malcolm Shabazz.

FAMED American filmmaker Oliver Stone, who judged the Golden Goblet Awards at the first Shanghai International Film Festival in 1993, will be back for the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival next month.

If you missed seeing 'Lincoln' when it was in theaters you can see it for free at Stonecrest library.

Asked about their recent history as Oscar rivals, Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee look at each other hesitantly before Spielberg graciously offers, "After you." The two have come to the Cannes Film Festival just months after facing off as the two favorites for best director at the Academy Awards.

His imaginative version of Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes proved that Shakespeare can be sexy and relevant to modern audiences and then in 2002, his visually dazzling musical Moulin Rouge! snagged eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture and a Best Actress nod for Nicole Kidman.

Her father, Francis Ford Coppola, was there to premiere a work-in-progress cut of a film he had spent years wrestling with: "Apocalypse Now." "I have nice memories of Cannes," Coppola said in an interview Thursday on the roof of the Palais, the festival center.

Classic film references are like secret handshakes, affirming shared base camps in pop culture, and songs from musical films like The Sound of Music seem to worm their way in our collective memory, too.

After Angelina Jolie made the surprise announcement on Tuesday of having undergone a preventative double mastectomy, the world stood in awe of her brave move and willingness to share her story.

It looks like Reese Witherspoon is quite eager to reunite with her Walk the Line crew.

ZOE SALDANA is begging NINA SIMONE devotees to hold off on criticising her for signing up to play the jazz legend in a new biopic until they see the film because she's determined to do the role justice.