Cannes

Sean Penn Explodes in Cannes: 'The Whole F---ing World Abandoned Haiti'

May 18, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Sean Penn, political activist and movie star, says Haiti finally has chance to reestablish itself after earthquake and decades of political turmoil

  

Cannes 2012: Posing and Dancing With Marion Cotillard and Bill Murray

May 18, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 3: Marion Cotillard gets awards heat, Guillermo del Toro talks "Pinocchio" and Bill Murray cuts a rug

  

Cannes Review: 'Paradies: Liebe' Is About Sex, But It's Torture

May 17, 2012 By Sasha Stone 1 year ago

Ulrich Seidl's Cannes drama reverses the gender dynamic on sexual exploitation and proves to be a draining experience

  

Cannes 2012: Roman Polanski Tells His Story - ‘How Do You Like Me Now?’

May 17, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

If you didn’t like Roman Polanski before, you’re not going to like him any better after seeing him tell his life story in “Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir”

  

Cannes 2012's Female Troubles: Directors, Jurors Weigh In

May 17, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

"Men are fond of depth in women," an open letter to Cannes charges, "but only in their cleavage"

  

Andy Garcia Partners with Anchor Bay for 'Admissions'

May 17, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Anchor Bay will work with Garcia on "Admissions," a new romantic comedy starring the Oscar nominee and Vera Farmiga

  

Cannes 2012: Shiny Happy People, and Osama bin Laden

May 17, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 2: The Cannes jury meets the press, and the potential acquisition of an Osama bin Laden movie could cause complications this fall

  

Cannes Review: In 'Rust and Bone' Jacques Audiard Burrows in Soul of Trauma

May 17, 2012 By Sasha Stone 1 year ago

Review: “Rust and Bone,” with Marion Cotillard, burrows deeply for those who've loved and lost, for the dreams we had we could never fulfill

  

Cannes 2012: Eli Roth's ‘Green Inferno’ Gets Financing From Worldview

May 17, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Eli Roth, the “Hostel” horror maestro, has obtained financing for his latest thriller, “The Green Inferno,” from independent production company Worldview

  

Cannes 2012: Paul Schrader To Write Kremlin-Financed Russian Ballerina Drama

May 17, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Paul Schrader will write a Kremlin-financed project about Mathilde Kschessinska, a famed Russian ballerina who was mistress to the last Russian tsar

  

Cannes 2012: 'After The Battle' Gets Inside Egypt's Facebook Revolution

May 16, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

On opening day of Cannes, an intimate look at the revolution via a relationship between a woman and a man from the upper and lower class of Egypt

  

Cannes 2012: The Stars Hit the Red Carpet - and the High Seas (Slideshow)

May 16, 2012 By Kauveh Khozein 1 year ago

From Sacha Baron Cohen to Harvey Weinstein, the biggest names mix work and play in the South of France

 

 

 

  

Cannes Review: 'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Ode to Arrested Development

May 16, 2012 By Sasha Stone 1 year ago

"Moonrise Kingdom" is sometimes more style than substance, but it's also charming, occasionally moving and always engaging, as Wes Anderson films are wont to be

  

FilmDistrict Acquires Horror Film 'Oculus'

May 16, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

FilmDistrict's latest acquisition, based on a Mike Flanagan short film, looks at a family torn apart by a haunted mirror

  

Sacha Baron Cohen Brings His 'Dictator' Schtick to Cannes

May 16, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

The promotional stunts just keep on coming -- ho hum -- as Sacha Baron Cohen's character cavorts on a yacht and snarls traffic on the Croisette

  

Joel Edgerton Writing and Starring in 'Felony'

May 16, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The Australian actor is best known for his performances in "Warrior" and "Animal Kingdom"

  

Sony Pictures Classics Nabs Rights to Susanne Bier’s 'Love Is All You Need'

May 16, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The Italian set drama stars Pierce Brosnan 

  

Fortissimo Films Acquires Terence Davies' 'Sunset Song'

May 16, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The British director will follow up his acclaimed "The Deep Blue Sea" with this look at poverty in the 1930s U.K. 

  

Cannes 2012: Is It Harvey Weinstein's Kingdom This Year?

May 16, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Day 1: The Cannes Film Festival kicks off with Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" and with the dominant presence of Harvey Weinstein

  

Cannes 2012: It's a Man's World (But at Least That Man Isn't Lars von Trier)

May 15, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

2012's Cannes Film Festival doesn't have a single female director in competition, but at least it'll be free of Lars von Trier's antics

  

The Weinstein Company Acquires 'The Sapphires' with Chris O'Dowd

May 15, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The Australian film centers on an Aboriginal girl group that performs in Vietnam

  

Robert Pattinson to Star in 'Mission: Blacklist'

May 2, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Robert Pattinson will star in the thriller, based on a novel written by Eric Maddox, who helped lead the hunt for Saddam Hussein

  

Arclight Films Acquires Australian Sci-Fi Thriller 'Crawlspace'

May 2, 2012 By Kasia Anderson 1 year ago

The action thriller "Crawlspace" will unspool at this year's Cannes Film Festival 

  

Cannes to Honor Claude Miller on Closing Night

April 18, 2012 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

The "New Wave" disciple's final film "Thérèse Desqueyroux” with Audrey Tautou will be shown on the festival's final night

  

Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Headed for Cannes?

March 29, 2012 By Steve Pond 1 year ago

Woody Allen's out. Terrence Malick's a mystery, but Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star in likely Cannes entries

  

Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom' to Open Cannes

March 9, 2012 By Tim Molloy 1 year ago

Film will open the festival May 16 and premiere in the U.S. May 25