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- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Feathers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
- ↑ "Interview with John Ruane", Signet, 22 August 1995 Archived 12 January 2013 at archive.today accessed 20 November 2012
