The Cannes – Oscar Connection: How Strong Will It Be This Year?
The connection between the most prestigious film festival and the most celebrated film award can fluctuate wildly — and this year’s crop is most promising in one specific category
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‘Fahrenheit 451’ Film Review: Michael B. Jordan Remakes Ray Bradbury for the Age of Fake News
Cannes 2018: Ramin Bahrani directed a new adaptation starring Michael Shannon
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‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes 2018: Spike Lee takes Grand Prize for “BlacKkKlansman”; Marcello Fonte and Samal Yeslyamova win acting awards for “Dogman” and “Ayka”
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Critics’ Groups Give Top Cannes Awards to Korean Drama ‘Burning’
Cannes 2018: Lee Chang-dong’s slow-burn drama was named the festival’s top film by FIPRESCI and the International Cinephile Society
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Cannes Report, Day 10: What Will Win the Palme d’Or?
Cannes 2018: Cate Blanchett’s jury will have the chance to make a statement about women or race or international politics or just cinema
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Troll Sex Movie ‘Border’ Wins Top Prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Section
Cannes 2018: Sergei Loznitsa wins best-director award for “Donbass,” while Viktor Polster takes acting prize for “Girl”
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‘On Chesil Beach’ Film Review: Saoirse Ronan Drama Only Starts Out Like a Sex Comedy
After a light beginning as a nervous young couple approaches the wedding bed, the touching Ian McEwan adaptation gets darker and sadder
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‘The House That Jack Built’ Film Review: The Real Shocker Is How Dull Lars von Trier’s Film Is
Cannes 2018: Lars von Trier’s gleeful look at a sadistic killer is actually boring when it isn’t grossing you out
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‘Asako I & II’ Film Review: Leisurely Japanese Drama Explores Nature of Love
Cannes 2018: director Hamaguchi Ryusuke tells story of a young woman whose first love abandons her, so she finds another man who looks just like him
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Cannes Film Festival Signs Pledge for More Women Directors, More Transparency
Cannes 2018: The festival becomes the first to sign the new Programming Pledge for Parity and Inclusion in Cinema Festivals
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‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Film Review: Alice Rohrwacher Charts the Course of a Holy Fool
Cannes 2018: Rohrwacher’s fable, the second of this year’s competition films from a female director, is both transporting and maddening
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Cannes Review: Pope Francis Documentary Is a Modest Film About a Bold Man
Cannes 2018: With “Pope Francis – A Man of His Word,” director Wim Wenders has made a performance film that’s more reverential than revolutionary
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Cannes So Far: The Spotlight Belongs to the Women
Cannes 2018: The Palme d’Or is anybody’s game, but the news at this year’s festival has been dominated by women making deals and demanding equality
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‘Three Faces’ Film Review: Once Again, Jafar Panahi Is Modest But Profound
Cannes 2018: The Iranian director is officially forbidden from making films for 20 years, but “Three Faces” is the latest exceptional work he’s made in the face of that ban
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Jessica Chastain Spy Thriller ‘355’ Lands at Universal After Bidding War
Cannes 2018: Universal nabs the film that also stars Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Lupita Nyong’o and Fan Bingbing
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‘Girl’ Film Review: Transgender Teen Drama Is a True Cannes Discovery
Cannes 2018: The gentle but wrenching film about a teenager who “just wants to be a girl” is the first work from 26-year-old Belgian director Lukas Dhont
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‘The Image Book’ Film Review: Once Again, Jean-Luc Godard Messes With Viewers’ Heads
Cannes 2018: The 87-year-old director’s newest film is an essay in sound and picture and an assault on the idea of cinema and, sometimes, on the viewer
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‘Cold War’ Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Cannes 2018: Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner “Ida”
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‘Border’ Film Review: Are Moviegoers Ready for Hot, Hairy Troll Sex?
Cannes 2018: Director Ali Abbasi delivers a formidable load of WTF with a work that’s part horror film, part allegory about our fear of outsiders
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‘Leto’ Film Review: Musical Biopic Is a Rock ‘n’ Roll Fever Dream
Cannes 2018: Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov tells the story of musician Viktor Tsoi in a way that is messy, surreal and ultimately moving
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‘Yomeddine’ Film Review: First Time’s a Charmer for Egyptian Drama
Cannes 2018: Rookie director A.B. Shawky’s road film about an unlikely pair fleeing a leper colony and an orphanage is the rare Cannes film best described as “sweet”
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ Star Laura Harrier on Going From Spider-Man’s Homecoming to Cannes Red Carpet
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Laura Harrier immersed herself in the early ’70s culture to play a black power activist in new Spike Lee joint
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‘Rafiki’ Film Review: African Gay Romance Is a First for Cannes
Cannes 2018: The first Kenyan film to ever screen at the festival is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is
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‘Everybody Knows’ Film Review: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem in Strongest Cannes Opener in Years
Cannes 2018: Asghar Farhadi’s dark drama stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have rarely gone to these emotional extremes in their work together
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Cannes’ Female Troubles: Women Directors Have Always Been Scarce
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Since the festival began, only 4.3 percent of its competition films have been directed by women — and while the percentage is improving, it’s doing so slowly
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Women in Cannes: A Short History of Small Victories and Decades of Male Dominance (Photos)
From the first female director in competition to the first (and only) to win the Palme d’Or, here are a few milestones in a festival that hasn’t been welcoming to women filmmakers
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Penélope Cruz Says She Spent Months in ‘Terrifying Pain’ for Cannes Opener ‘Everybody Knows’
TheWrap Cannes magazine: “It was the most difficult character I’ve ever had to play,” says the actress of her role as a desperate mother in Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish-language drama
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Cannes Film Festival 2018 Preview: No Selfies, No Netflix, No Problem
Spike Lee, Han Solo and the return of the once-disgraced Lars von Trier ought to overshadow the absence of a streaming giant and the new rules prohibiting red-carpet snapshots
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19 Cannes Movies We’re Dying to See, From ‘BlacKkKlansman’ to ‘Solo’ (Photos)
This year’s festival will bring controversial films, auteurs at the top of their game and at least one mega-blockbuster to the Croisette
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‘To Dust,’ ‘United Skates’ Win Tribeca Film Festival Audience Awards
Narrative film “Mapplethorpe” and surfing documentary “Momentum Generation” are runner-ups in Tribeca competition
