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    Cine-tourism: ‘Savages’ and ‘To Rome with Love’

    Tripping from the drug war to la dolce vita with Oliver Stone and Woody Allen

    Opening weekend: Wall Street 2, Never Let Me Go

    Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone and Carey Mulligan discuss their film in Cannes (VIDEO)

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    Newsmakers

    Carla Bruni’s very tough act, Ahmadinejad vs. Paul the Octopus, and an extreme breed of couch surfer

    Wall Street: Oliver never sleeps

    Top 10 aphorisms from Oliver Stone’s sequel

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    Film Reviews: Handling the truth in ‘W,’ ‘Passchendaele,’ ‘Battle in Seattle’ and ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

    It never rains, it pours. This week the big screen is teeming with history and politics. From America, fairly recent events are mythologized in two docudramas: Oliver Stone spins an instant-replay of George W. Bush’s life and times in W., which could be subtitled Attack of the White House Clones. And Stuart Townsend dramatizes the anti-globalization movement’s 1999 baptism of fire in Battle in Seattle, which conjures a pre-9/11 era of uncomplicated protest. In Canada, meanwhile, Paul Gross launches Passchendaele, his strained but valiant attempt to honour Canadian heroism in the First World War. These three films are radically different in tone and substance, but they are message movies—movies on a mission. And they all attempt to fuse entertainment with politics with mixed results.