Friday, May. 15, 2015

In Netflix's first official visit to the Cannes Film Festival, the streaming service's ambitions have been met warily at the Cote d'Azure cinema capital, a 68-year-old movie palace reverential to the theater-going experience.

Ted Sarandos, chief...

Friday, May. 15, 2015

Woody Allen returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday to show his latest film, "Irrational Man," speak about what he called the meaninglessness of life and confess that trying his hand in television was "a catastrophic mistake."

In "Irrational...

Thursday, May. 14, 2015

Women are the talk of the Cannes Film Festival, where debate rages about why they are so plentiful in front of the camera and so scarce behind it.

Long criticized for its dearth of female directors, Cannes opened this year with a film by a woman for...

Wednesday, May. 13, 2015

The Cannes Film Festival unrolled its red carpet with a socially minded French drama, striking a more serious tone than the high dose of glamour the festival often opens with.

"Standing Tall," a film about a juvenile delinquent co-starring Catherine...

Tuesday, May. 12, 2015

As the Cannes Film Festival gets set to open, two trends seem clear: The women are coming — and the selfies are going.

Festival chief Thierry Fremaux has fielded questions about female directors and self-photography since he announced the lineup last...

Monday, May. 11, 2015

There will be no selfies on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this year, but, rest assured, there will be every other type of image-making at the French Riviera extravaganza.

Photographers will form flashing gauntlets through which many of...

Thursday, Apr. 16, 2015

World cinema heavyweights including China’s Jia Zhangke, Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino and the United States’ Gus Van Sant will compete for prizes at next month’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.

Stars including Charlize Theron,...

Monday, May. 26, 2014

The 67th annual Cannes Film Festival featured a number of remarkable performances, many of them from big-name stars. These were among the actors that had Cannes buzzing:

— Steve Carell: It was an open question which star of Bennett Miller's "...

Monday, May. 26, 2014

Cannes doesn't in any way resemble the site of roiling class conflict. It's a French Riviera playground for the 1 percent, a sun-dappled land of velvet ropes.

Yet at this year's Cannes Film Festival, which came to a close Sunday after 12 days of...

Saturday, May. 24, 2014

The richly ruminative Chekhovian drama "Winter Sleep" was awarded the Palme d'Or on Saturday, bestowing the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on an intimate, wintery epic set on Turkey's Anatolian steppe.

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan accepted the award...

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