"Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn indulges in one bloody killing after another, and practically licks the knife afterwards

In competition at the festival, Soderbergh's honest, authentic rendering of the passionate, sometimes silly love affair between Liberace and Scott Thorson is his best film in years

The Japanese cult director refuses to sell out his premise for the sake of audience satisfaction

Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim star in the foreign-language film

Before it even had its official Cannes premiere, "Inside Llewyn Davis" became the most acclaimed film at the festival

Asghar Farhadi’s “The Past” is the hot title for now, but elsewhere Cannes embraces excess and exaggeration

But Asghar Farhadi's first film since "A Separation" may be tough to beat for the Palme d'Or

The parents are awful, the teenagers are repulsive and the celebrities are removed from reality, but no one gets away clean in Sofia Coppola's brilliant movie

Catcalls will put Baz Luhrmann's film in good company -- but the opening-night film is really just the aperitif before the sumptuous meal of cinema (and scandal) that is Cannes

Jacob tells French paper that he promised his wife he'll leave the job after 36 years at Cannes

Directors Cristian Mungiu and Lynne Ramsay also join Steven Spielberg, who will preside over the panel

Alexander Payne, Nicholas Winding Refn, Asghar Farhadi and James Gray also make the competition lineup at festival