Beneath intermittent rainy skies, the Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or for Meryl Streep and the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury, as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off a potentially volatile 77th edition
May 14, 2024
A French court has ruled that filmmaker Roman Polanski did not defame a British actor who accused him of raping her as a teenager
May 14, 2024
A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping
May 29, 2024
The first star to arrive on the red carpet at the 77th Cannes Film Festival came on four legs
May 14, 2024
Greta Gerwig, director of the smash hit "Barbie" movie, told journalists at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday that the #MeToo movement has led
May 30, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival is hallowed ground in cinema but understanding its unique landscape can be confounding
May 14, 2024
Welcome to Cannes
May 14, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off on Tuesday night as celebrities walked the red carpet into the plush Grand Theatre Lumiere to honour Hollywood actor Meryl Streep
May 29, 2024
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolled into the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, returning George Miller’s dystopia-on-wheels to the French Riviera festival and lending Anya Taylor-Joy a fairy tale moment on the Cannes red carpet
May 15, 2024
Before Judith Godrèche kickstarted a #MeToo wave in the French industry, she was one of the first prominent actors to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein
May 15, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything that’s arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil
May 15, 2024
French director Judith Godreche praised the Cannes Film Festival for welcoming her and cast members of her movie about the #MeToo movement on the red carpet on
May 31, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a wildly ambitious passion project the 85-year-old director has been pondering for decades
May 16, 2024
Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic “Megalopolis.”
May 17, 2024
After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization
May 17, 2024
Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”
May 18, 2024
On paper, Jacques Audiard’s buzzed-about Cannes Film Festival entry “Emilia Perez” would not seem anything like a good idea for a movie
May 19, 2024
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos' collaboration has by now become so regular that it would be easy to take it for granted
May 20, 2024
While Donald Trump’s hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for the Republican presidential candidate premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a scathing portrait of Trump in the 1980s
May 20, 2024
Studio Ghibli, the Japanese anime factory of surreal ecological wonders that has for 39 years spirited away moviegoers with tales of Totoros, magical jellyfish and floating castles, was celebrated Monday by the Cannes Film Festival with an honorary Palme d’Or
May 20, 2024
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June 05, 2024
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov used his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday to launch a protest against the detention and
June 04, 2024
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
May 21, 2024
Donald Trump would likely be surprised by "The Apprentice," director Ali Abbasi said on Tuesday of his biopic about Trump's early years as a real estate
June 05, 2024
Part of director Sean Baker's aim in making "Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved
June 06, 2024
After the competition lineup at the Cannes Film Festival got a lackluster start last week, the festival was enlivened by a string of films both fleshy and carnal
May 22, 2024
It’s been a dog’s life at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — or should that be the Canine Film Festival
May 23, 2024
Some of the biggest stars in the French Rivera for the Cannes Film Festival made appearances at the 30th annual amfAR gala to raise money for AIDS research
May 23, 2024
The canine star of “Dog on Trial” has been awarded the Palm Dog prize at Cannes
May 24, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival draws glamour to itself like a moth to the flame
May 24, 2024
Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof said on Friday that his Cannes Film Festival competition entry, about a court official's family
June 10, 2024
"Anora," a darkly funny and touching drama about a young exotic dancer who becomes involved with a Russian oligarch's son, won the Cannes
June 11, 2024
Two weeks after its much-anticipated premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, a film about Donald Trump in the 1980s is still seeking distribution in the United States
June 07, 2024
Jesse Plemons is less a chameleon than a singular presence that can be dialed to disturbing or sweet
June 18, 2024
The female stars of an Egyptian street theatre troupe that is the subject of a prize-winning documentary film said they set out to challenge attitudes to women's role
July 16, 2024
Lionsgate recalled its new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Wednesday amid revelations that critics’ quotes were fabricated
August 21, 2024
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September 04, 2024
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September 21, 2024
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