Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2008

Quickie: Murdered Harry Potter Actor

I wonder how many people will read that and immediately panic that I meant Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint. You know, out of both the people that will actually read this.

Rob Knox, who plays Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was stabbed to death in a London bar. He was only 18.

Video.

The movie is coming out in November by the way. For all of my geekitude, and the 827 million times I've read the series (that's a precise count of course), I can't place where Marcus Belby fits into the story.

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Cannes You Dig It?

I apologize for that; I couldn't stop myself.

So the Cannes film festival ended yesterday. This is the first time in 21 years that a French film has won the Palme d'Or. Laurent Cantet won for The Class, the last French film to win was Sous le Soleil de Satan in 1987.

Benicis del Toro won best actor for playing Che Guevara and Sandra Corveloni won best actress for Linha de Passe. The best feature film was Hunger, which is about someone dying after 66 days on a hunger strike.

Really the reason I mention Cannes is because of this article I found saying that this year's films show a trend toward women's empowerment and humanitarian issues rather than violence. Woot.

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