Jeff Nichols so captivates the media after a screening of "Mud" that they ignore his two stars, Reese Witherspoon and Matthew McConaughey

Chilean film "No," starring Gael Garcia Bernal, is among prize-winners in Cannes' Directors Fortnight section

Student films from Russia, the United States and Cuba are selected by Cannes' Cinefondation jury headed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Day 10: Steven Spielberg shows "Jaws" and says sharks have been very good for him, but audiences get unruly, and Pete Doherty talks frankly about making a movie on heroin

Day 9: The festival winds down with baffling movies, a Roman Polanski short and a giddy Kim Kardashian

Day 8: The wild and weird "Holy Motors" provides a shot of adrenaline, and Ken Loach doesn't want to watch his language

"Killing Them Softly" juxtaposes Obama's rhetoric with grim violence, but Brad Pitt tells Cannes press conference it's not a slap at the president

Day 7: Three movies that weren't ready in time for Cannes steal the spotlight from the movies that did make it to the festival

Kino Lorber plans summer release for "Meet the Fokkens," documentary about twin 69-year-old hookers-turned-brothel owners

British drama about the torture of a terrorist will premiere on Channel 4 in the UK before worldwide theatrical release

Gilles Bourdos film is love story about painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his director son Jean Renoir and the young woman who inspired them both

Millennium/West Coast agreement calls for co-production and co-financing of two or three films a year, beginning with Antoine Fuqua's "White House Taken" with Gerard Butler