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" Picture: Getty Images Joel and Ethan Coen have been chosen to head up the jury for the 68th Cannes film festival.  \u00A0 The appointment of the film-making brothers, the first time two people have been selected to preside over the panel, comes as the Riviera-based festival celebrates the Lumi\u00E8re brothers, Louis and Auguste, who invented the cinematograph 120 years ago this year. \u00A0 \u201CWe look forward to returning to Cannes this year,\u201D the Coen brothers said. \u201CWe welcome, as always, the opportunity to watch movies there from all over the world. Cannes is a festival that has been important to us since the very beginning of our career. Presiding over the jury is a special honour, since we have never heretofore been president of anything.\u201D \u00A0 The Coen brothers have long been a stalwart of the beach-side festival, with nine of the their films shown at Cannes. They won the Palme d\u2019Or in 1991 for Barton Fink, best director for Fargo in 1996 and The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There in 2001 and the Grand Prix for Inside Llewyn Davis in 2013. \u00A0 This year\u2019s Cannes film festival takes place from 13 May to 24 May. ***MORE CULTURE NEWS 2015 Oscar nominationsIn conversation with Wes AndersonBoyhood review "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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