Monkey Ghosts Rule Cannes: Uncle Boonmee Takes Palme d'Or
As perhaps the quietest Cannes Film Festival in recent memory came to a close on Sunday, jury president Tim Burton and his colleagues sorted through 19 selections and…
As perhaps the quietest Cannes Film Festival in recent memory came to a close on Sunday, jury president Tim Burton and his colleagues sorted through 19 selections and…
No films in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival look to be breakouts, thus, picking the winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or is a huge challenge. Have no…
As the bleary press descended on the Palais this morning to screen Rachid Bouchareb's controversial film Hors La Loi (Outside of the Law), they were welcomed by hundreds…
Doug Liman's Fair Game -- about the CIA agent Valerie Plame and the byzantine goings-on surrounding her infamous outing -- underscores the incredibly weak selection of…
If an award were to be given at Cannes for the audience's favorite film, it just might go to director Stephen Kijak's Stones in Exile, which premiered here at Director's…
Having conquered Sundance (or at least gotten an earful from the critics), director Derek Cianfrance, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling have now descended on the Cannes…
The legendary Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami returned on Tuesday to Cannes, where he won the Palme d'Or in 1997 for his film Taste of Cherry. Judging by the largely…
As the Cannes hits the midway point, only a handful of films either in or out of competition have excited critics. And some big-name directors who were supposed to…
Alejandro González Iñárritu, who rankled critics with his films 21 Grams and Babel (especially), has directed the best film shown so far at the festival. Biutiful stars…
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson has been hardly covert in her appearances at the Cannes Film Festival. In the Doug Liman film Fair Game, screening for the press on…
Though early in the festival, Mike Leigh's touching drama Another Year, looks poised to grab an award after it received the most positive reviews so far from any film in…
Screening out of competition, Woody Allen's latest film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger added some welcome levity amid the festival's myriad screenings involving…
Screening out of competition at Cannes, Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps was shown to journalists this morning -- and yet again another gargantuan…
After the self-indulgent and ludicrous Robin Hood, which screened out of competition, the real festival competition began with a healthy dose of zaftig T&A. Although the…
The Cannes Film Festival officially opened today with the 10 a.m. press screening of Ridley Scott's nearly two-and-half-hour epic Robin Hood. The film, a sort of Robin…