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Bruce Dern takes a bow at the Cannes Film Festival with a new documentary on his life

CANNES, France | When Bruce Dern was leaving the Actors Studio to try to make it in Los Angeles, Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg warned him that he wasn’t going to be landing leading man parts. He was going to be “the fifth cowboy to the right.” “They said: Just make sure you’re the most […]

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Maika Monroe, much more than ‘Scream Queen,’ returns to Cannes

CANNES, France | Maika Monroe’s career essentially began at the Cannes Film Festival. Her breakthrough role in “It Follows” premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week sidebar in 2014. “I was a newbie,” recalls Monroe. “I’m pretty sure I spent my 21st birthday here. I was like: ‘Well isn’t that exciting, to turn 21 in a country […]