cannes film festival

Cannes Review: Robert Redford's Actions Speak Much Louder Than Words in 'All Is Lost'

May 22, 2013 By Sasha Stone 1 day ago

Redford gives a moving performance as a man lost at sea in J.C. Chandor's almost dialogue-free follow-up to "Margin Call"

  

Cannes Review: Soulless, Despicable 'Only God Forgives' Shuts Up and Slices Limbs

May 22, 2013 By Sasha Stone 1 day ago

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

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Liberace Lights Up the Homestretch

May 22, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 day ago

As the festival moves into its final five days, Steven Soderbergh's HBO movie joins the Coen brothers and Asghar Farhadi as the best in show

  

'Behind the Candelabra' Review: Sex, Lies & the Closet at Cannes

May 21, 2013 By Sasha Stone 2 days ago

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

  

Good Morning, Cannes: The Festival Has Female Troubles, Again

May 21, 2013 By Steve Pond 2 days ago

There's only one film directed by a woman in the main competition – and the critics weren’t kind to that film, “A Castle in Italy”

  

Cannes Review: Without the Blood Lust, Takashi Miike’s 'Shield of Straw' Draws Boos

May 20, 2013 By Sasha Stone 3 days ago

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

  

Cannes Deals: Sundance Selects Buys Dardenne Brothers’ ‘Two Days, One Night’ Starring Marion Cotillard

May 19, 2013 By Lucas Shaw 4 days ago

Cotillard plays a woman desperate to keep her job

  

Asghar Farhadi's Cannes Drama 'The Past' Has a Future at Sony Classics

May 19, 2013 By Jeff Sneider 4 days ago

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

  

Cannes Review: 'Borgman' Makes No Sense - in a Good Way

May 19, 2013 By Sasha Stone 4 days ago

Alex van Warmerdam's film is a bizarre, rambling, vivid dream that often feels as if the director and cast are making it up as they go along

  

Good Morning, Cannes: The Coen Brothers Make People Forget About Their Wet Socks

May 19, 2013 By Steve Pond 4 days ago

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

  

Cannes Review: Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Is a Breathtaking Ode to Failure

May 18, 2013 By Sasha Stone 4 days ago

Coens' tragicomic story of Greenwich Village folk scene is a sharp, evocative portrait of a world about to be changed by Bob Dylan

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Much Ado About Absolutely Everything

May 18, 2013 By Steve Pond 5 days ago

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

 

  

The Best, Worst, and Most Ridiculous of the Week: 14 Showbiz Stories You Can't Miss

May 17, 2013 By Greg Gilman 5 days ago

"Star Trek" kills J.J. Abrams grand ambitions, Will Smith gets "Wild," Bill Hader peaces out and a Fox reporter's major fail -- all this week in Hollywood.

  

Cannes Review: 'The Past' Is a Brilliant Meditation on Secrets & Lies

May 17, 2013 By Sasha Stone 6 days ago

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

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Paris Hilton Loved 'Bling Ring' - Now Can We Get Back to the Art Movies?

May 17, 2013 By Steve Pond 6 days ago

The platinum heiress weighs in on Sofia Coppola's movie, while the gritter and weirder likes of "Fruitvale Station" and "The Congress" jockey for attention on the Croisette

  

Cannes Review: 'The Bling Ring' Rips Open the Fame Game

May 16, 2013 By Sasha Stone 6 days ago

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

  

Cannes Review: 'Young & Beautiful' Supplies Sex and Nudity, but Where's the Soul?

May 16, 2013 By Sasha Stone 1 week ago

Francois Ozon’s story of a teenage prostitute asks an audience to check its morality at the door

  

Good Morning, Cannes: Will the Boo Birds Be Out for 'The Great Gatsby?'

May 15, 2013 By Steve Pond 1 week ago

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

  

Watch Will Forte and Bruce Dern Bond over Beers and Family Secrets in 'Nebraska' Clip (Video)

May 14, 2013 By Greg Gilman 1 week ago

The Alexander Payne film premieres at the Cannes Film Festival next week

  

Longtime Cannes President Gilles Jacob to Step Down in 2015

May 8, 2013 By Steve Pond 2 weeks ago

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

  

Cannes Adds Jim Jarmusch, Claude Lanzmann Films

April 26, 2013 By Steve Pond 3 weeks ago

Jarmusch's vampire romance joins main competition lineup; four other films added to Un Certain Regard and out-of-competition slots

  

Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz Join Cannes Jury

April 23, 2013 By Steve Pond 4 weeks ago

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

  

Cannes' Directors Fortnight Includes Michael Cera, Liev Schreiber

April 23, 2013 By Steve Pond 4 weeks ago

Lineup of Cannes sidebar includes science fiction, horror and film noir

  

Cannes Film Festival Lineup Includes Coen Brothers, Roman Polanski and Steven Soderbergh

April 18, 2013 By Steve Pond 5 weeks ago

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

  

Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring' to Open Cannes Festival's Certain Regard

April 17, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 5 weeks ago

“The Bling Ring” stars Emma Watson in the title role, and also stars Taissa Farmiga, Leslie Mann and Kirsten Dunst; it will screen on May 16

  

Steven Spielberg to Head Cannes Film Festival Jury

February 27, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 12 weeks ago

Steven Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director, will head the jury of the Cannes FIlm Festival, held from May 15-26 this year