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More Awards: The Social Network Will Not Settle for 2nd Place

You know what’s better than winning most of the best picture awards? Winning all of them . Or so it would seem. The San Francisco Film Critics and The Toronto Film Critics have both announced their awards and The Social Network came out on top again, right on the heels of its Best Picture awards from

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More Awards: The Social Network Will Not Settle for 2nd Place

Watch the Mystifying Trailer For Cannes Winner Uncle Boonmee

Sadly, there are no Monkey Ghosts or catfish cunnilingus in the trailer for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , the Thai mindf*ck that won director Apichatpong Weerasethakul the Palme d’Or at Cannes on Sunday. But there are plenty of the lush, laconic images international moviegoers have come to know and love (or at least appreciate) in good old “Joe” W.’s baffling metaphysical exercises like Blissfully Yours , Tropical Malady and Syndromes and a Century .

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Watch the Mystifying Trailer For Cannes Winner Uncle Boonmee

Monkey Ghosts Rule Cannes: Uncle Boonmee Takes Palme d’Or

As perhaps the quietest Cannes Film Festival in recent memory came to a close on Sunday, jury president Tim Burton and his colleagues sorted through 19 selections and handed out awards at the Palais du Festival — and Movieline nailed it .

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Monkey Ghosts Rule Cannes: Uncle Boonmee Takes Palme d’Or