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Henry Thomas Audition for E.T. VIDEO

Palme d’Or Winner - Blue Is the Warmest Color

She shed tears throughout much of her three-hour movie. And when she arrived on stage with her co-star Léa Seydoux, the two actresses cried some more. Adèle Exarchopoulos, the 19-year-old heroine of Abdellatif Kechiche’s sexually graphic, potently naturalistic lesbian drama La Vie d’Adèle (known in English as Blue Is the Warmest Color), was named one of the three winners of the Palme d’Or, the highest prize at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Steven Spielberg, president of this year’s jury, announced that he and his colleagues had taken the unusual decision to honor “three artists: Adèle, Léa and Abdellatif.”

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Daniel Day Lewis by Juergen Teller for W Magazine

“I miss playing Lincoln. Very much. I miss the proximity to his character. There was a time in my life when it wasn’t clear whether or not I would amount to anything. I was fearful about my future. In England, people were hell-bent on certifying me—to them, the way I work as an actor is the system of someone who is unhinged. As a young man, when I saw the early movies by Scorsese, I saw a way to be, a kind of liberation. In those movies, America seemed like a place of infinite opportunities. In Lincoln, we tried to show that sense of grand democratic possibility. We created a world I didn’t want to leave.”

Check Out Eight New Sundance Short Films Online

Today marks the kick off for the annual hearding of cinema’s elite—the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. This coming week will usher in an incredible amount of new and inspiring work from across the globe, hopefully, to be picked up by distributors and infultrated into theaters around the country and abroad. This week,we expressed which upcoming Sundance films we’re most excited for—from Richard Linklater’s third installement in his decade-spanning separated love series with Before Midnight to Shane Carruth’s long-awaited bewildering sophomore feature, Upstream Color. But it’s not only the feature length debuts that will be receiving praise and recognition—the short films this year are certainly not to be missed.

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