Alain Resnais' ‘You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet‘ is a tribute to the director's love of theater. More than that, it presents his notion that film and theater are one and the same.  He plays with structure and narrative here much the way he always has, and that might be the film's biggest problem.

For those of us who think theater belongs on the stage, this one can be a chore to sit through.  There is much to admire throughout, like the way Resnais plays with our notion of the canvas -- the wall of a movie screen where actors usually play the story out to us, out there in the dark.  He uses split screen and mirror images, sometimes film itself within a film to tell his story.  So the problem then becomes, what of the story?

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Harvey Weinstein knows that “The Sapphires” is not “The Artist.”And it’s not even “The Commitments.”

But the Australian tale about a troupe of Aboriginal women singing American soul tunes on their way to breaking racial barriers is an enjoyable romp through the late 1960s and inspirational in its way.

Some early buzz on the internet mistakenly suggested that Weinstein, who is distributing the film, though he had another “Artist” on his hands.

In a conversation at the film’s afterparty on Sunday The Weinstein Company chairman said he merely meant that the film got a standing ovation like “The Artist” did – but he doesn’t expect it to win the Oscars.

The ovation is surely because the film is a feel-good foot-tapper that deals with anti-aboriginal racism and the Vietnam War....

Approaching the halfway point in Cannes' Palme d'Or race, we appear to have a new leader in the clubhouse: Michael Haneke's "Amour."

The Austrian director's meditation on aging and death, an upcoming Sony Pictures Classics release, was roundly acclaimed by most critics after a Sunday morning screening. Words like "masterpiece" were thrown around in the aftermath of the packed Lumiere showing, which necessitated a second theater to accommodate the overflow.

And soon after the screening, the odds posted on the British bookmaking site Paddy Power found "Amour...

Steve Shainberg (“Secretary,” “Fur”) has nailed cast and funding for his latest sexy dramedy, “The Big Shoe,” which will star Jim Sturgess and Susan Sarandon.

AngelWorld Entertainment, which on Saturday launched a $150 million equity fund, will finance and produce, the company announced at the Cannes festival on Sunday.

“The Big Shoe” follows Nate (Sturgess), a gifted shoe designer forced to break free from a family who want to cheapen his art for their own commercial gain. Sarandon plays an overbearing mother who hires a psychotherapist and a 'muse' to lure Nate back to work.

Director Steve Shainberg said: "’The Big Shoe’ provides the opportunity to explore a playful, romantic, sexy, intimate connection just as 'Secretary' did. The script combines eroticism and humor...