Brad Pitt @ Cannes Film Festival 2007

I love him and I love him even more with Angelina. DAMN can he get any hotter?

Wow, I knew it would be a good week for us, and you are really doing your best to make it so, Jared. Thanks so much!

Love love love the way Brad looks! Oh my!!!

THANKS JARED!!! You are the best when it comes to Brad and Angie!!

OMG! Its an AVALANCHE! Thank-you Jared!

Dang my man is looking hot, hot, HOT!!!

this is too much, i don’t know which thread to stick to!!
think i’ll take a nap and when i come back hopefully there will be links to some video

hehe……..cool!

his face looks puffy and he looks tired. I do not like his nose, it bugs me. I hope shiloh didnt get hid nose

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jess Says:

May 21st, 2007 at 9:07 am - flag comment
WOO so many threads! I don’t normally go for oder guys but Brad certainly has something

Hotta hottta!!!!Brad looks younger,looking fine fine!!!and Angelina looks great and love her smile!!! ahhhhh what a love can do……I can’t stop staring at their pictures!!!Thanks JARED!!!

Thanks Jared. He really looks so hot.

Oh gosh he looks amazing - love the new haircut.

JARED THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! No one else has all the BAMPZS news the minute it happens, you’re the only place I see with all these photos!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU - Keep em coming!

Brad has a new hair, i think he looks young,, bbl going back to Angelina threads

An open letter to Ms. Angelina Jolie,

Please help this man procreate once again, look at him - he needs to make many babies to carry on his hotness for future generations to come.

Thank you.

Why do I want to take that man’s in-seam?

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Mr and Mrs Smith Says:

May 21st, 2007 at 9:16 am - flag comment
Jess - thanks for the reminder. Continuing my civic duty, here goes the AMH review.
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FoxNews review

Jolie Film About Daniel Pearl Filmmaking of Highest Order

“A Mighty Heart,” Angelina Jolie’s film about the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, had its first screening Monday morning at the Cannes Film Festival.

Simply put, the Michael Winterbottom film is an exceptional piece of work, deeply affecting and filmmaking of the highest order.

In purely Hollywood terms, the film is a certain Oscar nominee. Everyone involved in “A Mighty Heart” - from Winterbottom to Jolie as Pearl’s widow, Mariane, to Dan Futterman as Daniel Pearl - can be proud of a job very well done.

Based on the book by Mariane Pearl, the film follows the pregnant Mariane as searches for her husband following his disappearance in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002. At the time, Daniel Pearl was writing a story about shoe bomber Richard Reid.

Winterbottom’s cinema verité-style only adds to the immediacy of the Pearl tragedy. This director has done a remarkable job.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274172,00.html

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Thank you Thank you Thank you

irritating poser rock star glam boy ponce

There is something about Brad and Angie today. Maybe it’s because of the genuine smiles and laughs and them looking relaxed. I don’t know, there is just something that’s making them extra HOT today. Maybe it’s just me. Hmm

I think they just look super hot every time they get a night out with each other. They know they will get plenty of action later. hehehe

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creativegirl Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 9:19 am - flag comment

An open letter to Ms. Angelina Jolie,

Please help this man procreate once again, look at him - he needs to make many babies to carry on his hotness for future generations to come.

Thank you.
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jess Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 9:32 am - flag comment

I think they just look super hot every time they get a night out with each other. They know they will get plenty of action later. hehehe
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I like the sound of that.

I went to x17 to see what they had and what’s there a video of aniston and arquette at a paparrazi friendly restaurant with them coming out pretending they don’t want to be photographed and aniston covering her face she’s even trying to drive with a book covering her face. I guess you guys were right she times her little paparazzi outing just right when all the attention is on brad and angie.

Jolie tells of Pearl ‘friendship’
By Stephen Robb
BBC News entertainment reporter in Cannes

Angelina Jolie and Mariane Pearl have spoken in Cannes about the friendship that brought them together on A Mighty Heart, about the 2002 murder of Mrs Pearl’s husband.

Mrs Pearl said she had asked Jolie to play the part because “she trusted her and I thought she understood me”.

“I was very, very nervous to get it right, but worked very, very hard to try,” said Jolie.

The film, directed by Britain’s Michael Winterbottom, has its premiere later.

US journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 while investigating a story on radical Muslim groups for the Wall Street Journal.

A video CD was later delivered to the US authorities showing him being murdered.

‘Great responsibility’

A Mighty Heart is based on the book written by Mrs Pearl, and is screening out of competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

“We all said through the whole thing, ‘If it doesn’t fall together right, we drop it - it’s too important,’” said Jolie.

She added: “I did finally speak to her [Mrs Pearl] days after she saw it, and she told me it was all right.

“For her to tell me that she felt it was done right, I can’t tell you how much that means to me.”

Brad Pitt, Jolie’s partner and producer of the film, said: “Everyone involved of course felt a great responsibility.

“We are very happy that the film maintained some dignity of Mariane and Daniel themselves.”

Now this is my definition of COOL and ClASSY.

France loves them I ams sure.

Can’t wait to see the movies!

I can’t get over how young Brad looks. He looks so good. If that is what 4 kids do to you he should have 4 more because he looks amazing.

This is the “wow factor”, the “it” that seperates them from other stars. Really, this is what the very top of the A-list looks like. They look amazing, simply beautiful and very happy. I find it great that they live their everyday lives in regular clothes, doing regular things and just being a family. But when it is time to go to wrok “WOW” nobody does it better.

Here are some pictures of the press conference.

http://www.picupload.in/hosting2/pupload/view/19959

I believe Angie love makes him look so young, happy, sexy and hot. They should get married.

He is supper HOT!

there is no words can describle how hot he looks. I am speechless.

MAMS…that;s it, you officially the Bampzs article and quotes keeper…keeping person…..whatever.

Thanks for the articles.

Ohmigod. He is gorgeous! An absolute Adonis and she is a Goddess! I love them together! And their gorgeous kids!

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love that comment…sex make them smile more…
Mr and Mrs Smith…thanks for the link.. love that picture of them.
I just love this family….I have a big smile on my face right now….Happy Monday everyone.

#64 AR,

Good for you. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I didn’t see the attraction until receintly either. The more his personality comes out the hotter he becomes. Maybe you should find out a little more about the guy. He’ll win you over.

In the second photo, look at Brad strut. He’s saying to himself,”I am the ****”. That is one PRETTY MOFO and he knows it. That’s why he downplays his looks and dresses so casual sloppy sometimes. Hey Brad, if you got it, FLAUNT IT. A lot of folks say she is so skinny. If you had BRAD PITT as your lover, you’d be thin too. (HOT WILD SEX). She is still beautiful.

Not looking too good MR. Pitt. Give me more of that delicious Johnny Depp.

As Angelina said, she doesn’t want her partner to pretend somebody else but himself. I think Brad could find his way back to his inner self through Angelina. He doesn’t need to pretend to be a glamourous celebrity. He becomes “beautiful”, when he discovers and develops his inner beauty.
They’re both very beautiful inside and outside. Wish them alot of happiness and love.

They are so present in the public mind, it is good that they take leading roles of ethical issues. It’s very motivating for oneself.

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African Girl Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 10:18 am - flag comment

Thanks Voice for the Link to people..
Jolie and Pitt in Cannes
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie showed their love – and their new movie – to the world’s media Monday as they stepped out arm-in-arm at the Cannes Film Festival.

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I love the WEs and OURs peppered all through the article. It’s not “The Children”, it’s “OUR children”, it’s not “The Family” It’s “OUR Family”…love, love, love.

BP saying “What’-her-name”…Funny.
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I have always loved how they talk like that. They are just so in love with each other and their children

wow ladies you have to read lainey\’s account.

He looks old!

Slightly OT.

This is what Johnny Depp said about having his first child.

“(She) was not only the greatest thing that’s ever happened - it’s the only thing that’s ever happened to me. I helped give our daughter life and I feel she gave me life. Suddenly, you meet your reason to live, meet the future. It was like my birth in a way. I was born that day

Some people have made comparisons betwen AJ and JD and I’m begining to see it, this sounds like what AJ said about Maddox.

Beautiful Angelina and Brad.

Had to laugh at Jess finding Brad hot too, even though he’s nearly 20 years older. I remeber when I thought 40 was old and now I’m past it and I still don’t think I’m old. Luckily, 50 is the new 30.

LOL

Thank you jared for all your hard work.

this Wednesday, Anne Curry is going to interview both Brad and Angie on Today show and Dateline. I cannot wait. Thursday Ocean’s 13 premier at Cannes. This Sunday is Shiloh’s birthday. What a week for Brad and Angie.

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Mr and Mrs Smith Says:
May 21st, 2007 at 10:25 am - flag comment

Thanks MAMS. Reading that article, you see why it’s not far fetched that AJ and MP are friends. These are two STRONG WOMEN who don’t play victims, I mean if anyone deserved to throw herself a pity party, it’s MP instead of going on all the talk shows, whining about how she was done wrong, instead of giving interviews every two months to keep the world updated on how she’s “coping”, she drew strength from the ordeal, turned this painful even into something positive. I really do admire these two women

This is from variety.
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A Mighty Heart
By JUSTIN CHANG

A Paramount Vantage release (in U.S.) and presentation of a Plan B Entertainment/Revolution Films production. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton. Co-producer, Anita Overland. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Screenplay, John Orloff, based on the book “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl” by Mariane Pearl.

Mariane Pearl - Angelina Jolie
Danny Pearl - Dan Futterman
Captain - Irrfan Khan
John Bussey - Denis O’Hare
Asra - Archie Panjabi
Randall Bennett - Will Patton
Steve LeVine - Gary Wilmes

The sad saga of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl has made it to the bigscreen with facts, figures and beating heart intact in “A Mighty Heart.” In his first studio venture, Michael Winterbottom coaxes forth a staggering wealth of detail from this terse, methodical account of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, seen through the eyes of those who sought his return. Given audiences’ resistance to films dealing with 9/11 and its aftermath, soberly restrained pic reps a mighty tough sell, though Angelina Jolie’s performance as Pearl’s widow should broaden prospects for the June 22 Stateside release.

Adapting Mariane Pearl’s harrowing memoir, director Winterbottom, who previously ventured into Mideast politics with “In This World” and “The Road to Guantanamo,” proves to be just the man for the task. Though the prolific British chameleon isn’t one to make the same film twice, his gifts for docudrama storytelling –

an ability to shepherd complicated narratives, avoiding every opportunity for sensationalism in favor of a low-key mounting dread — couldn’t be better suited to the material.

Having covered the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pearls were working as journalists in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 23, 2002 — the day Danny (”Capote” scribe Dan Futterman), chasing a story about foiled shoe bomber Richard Reid, got into a cab and never returned. Sticking close to the very pregnant Mariane (Jolie), pic recounts the restless five-week search for the man’s whereabouts and his kidnappers’ identities, all accompanied by a hailstorm of media attention.

Screenwriter John Orloff (”Band of Brothers”) crisply diagrams the labyrinth of false leads and fruitless interrogations with various middlemen Danny may have had contact with on the night of his disappearance. Suspicion ultimately comes to rest on the elusive Omar Saeed Sheikh (Alyy Khan), a known Islamic militant with a history of kidnapping foreigners.

Like his fellow suspects, Sheikh is seen only briefly, and in the most objective possible light. Working in the brisk, discursive style of a police procedural, Winterbottom and Orloff scrupulously follow the rescue effort, step by agonizing step — ensuring that the audience is never given additional information despite its foreknowledge of the tragic outcome. Even larger political questions — the implications, say, of a scene in which a Pakistani suspect is strung up and interrogated, or the grim irony of a journalist couple facing intense media scrutiny — are subjugated to the flow of the storytelling.

Along the way, writer and helmer also manage to sketch vivid portraits of Mariane’s key supporters and allies. These include Danny’s tough-minded colleague, Asra Nomani (Archie Panjabi); a local cop (Irffhan Khan), known simply as Captain, determined not to let the case soil Pakistan’s reputation; American diplomatic security agent Randall Bennett (Will Patton), who tends to see the silver lining in all bad news; and Wall Street Journal higher-up John Bussey (Denis O’Hare), who arrives in Pakistan after news of the ordeal, a comforting but resilient figure.

But this is ultimately — and very intimately — Mariane Pearl’s story, and much of it rests on Jolie, who fits comfortably into the naturalistic mold that shapes the entire ensemble. Though Jolie sports a big belly, a high-coiffed hairstyle and a very challenging accent (raised in France, Mariane is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch descent), this isn’t the sort of commanding star turn in which the performer vanishes behind a well-known celebrity mask, but rather a subdued, carefully considered portrait of a woman caught between premature grief and persistent hope.

Jolie plays Mariane as sharp and prickly, but also highly principled and completely devoted to her husband. Wisely, Winterbottom opts to shoot her more high-pitched outbursts from a distance or in near-darkness, as if refusing to milk more histrionics than necessary.

Occasional subdued flashbacks to happier days from Mariane and Danny’s marriage, including a very brief love scene, add emotional texture even as they take something away from the film’s otherwise unsentimental approach.

Pic negotiates its way around another potential landmine — to show or not to show the widely circulated video of Pearl’s murder — re-creating a very brief, non-graphic snippet of the contentious footage and getting the facts across with the utmost restraint.

Shot on location in Pakistan, India and France, the film gains considerable authenticity and momentum from its handheld DV lensing by Winterbottom’s regular d.p., Marcel Zyskind, and Peter Christelis’ rapid editing, rarely allowing a shot to last more than a few seconds.

The Frenzy

This morning’s screening was for press only. And so the building was full of journalists, all of them congregating for a glimpse of the Brangelina phenomenon. The queue began early – there were reporters in line to get into the press room almost 3 hours ahead of time. So as the hour approached for their arrival, a frenetic energy started to build. Some of them even took out their digital cameras for personal photos which is weird considering in their profession, they see celebrities all the time. At the end of the session, half of them even crowded the dais to get autographs. Journalists seeking autographs – can you imagine!?!

But then again, these two pack a different punch. I remember at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the gala premiere of Babel, the hysteria coming from the crowd was almost dangerous. Like at any moment there was going to be surge. And at one point, when Brad was on the carpet and the fans were screaming, it did feel like the gates were going to yield resulting in pandemonium.

Today was a more controlled environment. Super tight security and it wasn’t open to the public. But even with the press corps, supposedly civilised on these occasions, there was a throbbing underneath – like peace on a precipice, with the cliff about to give away on a moment’s notice.

And there they were – in a holding room just before entering the conference, surrounded by her handlers.

I saw him first. He was taller than remembered and totally relaxed, in that easy way he holds his body, rockin’ a killer suit. Seriously, if Brad and Becks had a suit-off, I don’t know if I could pick a clear winner.

Brad looked well-rested and tanned and … hot. Even Dylan has mentioned it – macho Dylan who doesn’t make it a point of looking at a man that way has said “now that is a good looking guy.”

A couple minutes later, Angelina appeared. The first time I saw her she was laughing in his direction and immediately walked over to join him. They stood next to each other, she touched his arm in the same way I might touch my husband’s arm: familiar, affectionate, private. Two female journalists from the UK standing next to me started swooning.

So then they walked out for a brief photo opp before heading into the Q&A, Angelina before Brad. She waved, she smiled, she didn’t break stride, and she headed in in good spirits. I have to tell you, I was shocked. Because you always see her so sullen and then all of a sudden she’s all happy and cheerful and you’re not sure what to do with that, you know?

So is she skinny? Yes she is skinny. Very skinny. Especially her legs. Her legs are extremely thin. But does she ever glow. Seriously not much makeup, they were panning in tight on her during the conference, you could see every pore, and I’m telling you – she is crazy gorgessity. Didn’t like the hair but the bone structure is madness…especially those lips. And believe me, it didn’t go unnoticed. During the press conference, even when someone else was answering a question, the camera dudes wouldn’t come off of her – like they needed a nudge to remember what they were doing.

She was wearing a black skirt with a brown silk shirt – boring. And of course she had to throw in the kids thing. She and Mariane went on for a bit about Maddox and Adam, about bonding over motherhood. Eye roll. Through it all though she smiled a lot. More than you’d expect given all the photographs of her pursing her lips. Even later on when I was spying on them leaving the Palais, she was relaxed and spirited when some gushy lady came up to her and started yammering, actually gushing back a little and throwing her head back.

And then of course there’s the chemistry… details coming.

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ilovethisfamily Says:

May 21st, 2007 at 10:48 am - flag comment
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933711.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

the reviews are coming in!

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And they are GOOD. Thanks for the link, keep ‘em coming.

Thanks JJ.

Oops, looks like someone posted Lainey’s article before me. Oh well, the more, the merrier.

Now, for those who think Angie wasn’t looking happy, read Lainey’s post (since she was there and witnessed the whole thing).

What is up with those lady glasses and the flashy ring and gold cuffs? He looks like he robbed Tom Cruise’s wardrobe from Rain Man that suit is not doing anything for him. He is starting to look like Robert Redford for sure … he could use a tweeze for that unibrow. Cool hair tho ..