Tomorrow marks the first day of summer (and my Mom’s birthday - Happy Birthday Mom!) - so spend the day outside and then curl up with a good movie! These are my Top 10 Summer Inspired Movies.

And takepart to learn how to keep for your house cool for yes and also be better to the environment.

1. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)

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The Palme D’Or (and the rest of the prizes at Cannes) was given out on Sunday and this time around the winner was Laurent Cantet’s “Entre Les Murs” (”The Class”), a story about a teacher teaching in the 20th quarter and the difficulties his students face in terms of French identity. “The docudrama was shot in a raw, improvisational style to chronicle the drama that unfolds over one school year.” [AP] “Based on a best-selling autobiographical novel by François Bégaudeau, who plays the main character, The Class is given great life by the performances of the nonprofessional actors playing the students. Mr. Cantet brought them onstage with him to accept the prize, and they brought the entire Palais des Festivals to its feet. [NYTimes]

to listen to a podcast with the director.

The other prizes included the following:

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Here’s the main competition line-up - I’m personally most excited for the films by Jia Zhangke, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Arnaud Desplechin and Lucretia Martel. I’m least excited for the Clint Eastwood…

In Competition

Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna
Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Atom Egoyan - Adoration
Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir
Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L’Aube
Matteo Garrone - Gomorra

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