Cannes Film Festival
In David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future," in which an artist played by Viggo Mortensen has organs and tumors plucked from his body in performance art excavations, Kristen Stewart plays a timid bureaucrat swiftly turned passionate devotee.
In Cronenberg's film, a Cannes Film Festival...
The war in Ukraine took a starring role on the opening night of the 75th Cannes Film Festival and it has rarely been far out of frame since.
The parties have continued nonstop, as has the red-carpet frenzy. But throughout the French Riviera spectacular has run a discourse about the role...
The Cannes Film Festival, yet again, belongs to Léa Seydoux.
The French actress has already shared in a Palme d'Or at the festival, in 2013 for "Blue Is the Warmest Color," which made her and Adèle Exarchopoulos the first actors to ever win Cannes' top prize, which they shared with...
South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation has often been depicted in film but rarely from the inside. The Cannes Film Festival entry "War Pony," though, sought to capture daily life on the reservation by relying on the perspectives of its Native American residents.
The film was directed by...
Cristian Mungiu's Cannes Film Festival entry "R.M.N." is set in an unnamed mountainous Transylvanian village in Romania, but the conflicts of ethnocentricity, racism and nationalism that permeate the multi-ethnic town could take place almost anywhere.
Of all the films competing for the...
Fashion models, Instagram influencers and Russian oligarchs collide on a yacht — and some very extreme sickness ensues — in Ruben Östlund's "Triangle of Sadness," a social satire that had viewers at the Cannes Film Festival in hysterics.
The Swedish filmmaker's latest, co-starring Woody...
It's taken a lot of time and a good deal of yearning for Australian director George Miller to make "Three Thousand Years of Longing, " his long-awaited follow-up to "Mad Max: Fury Road."
Miller premiered "Three Thousand Years of Longing" over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, the...
Lee Jung-jae, the award-winning star of Netflix's "Squid Game," spent years developing the 1980s-set Korean spy thriller "Hunt" before electing to direct himself. He did it a little reluctantly, without big plans to continue filmmaking. But Lee did have a vision for what it could be — and where...
One of the most memorable lines — and Rob Reiner's personal favorite — of "This Is Spinal Tap" goes: "There's a fine line between stupid and clever."
You could say the same thing about the classic 1984 mockumentary. It could have so easily not panned out. No one in Hollywood thought it...
The last two times the Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov had films playing at the Cannes Film Festival, he couldn't attend. He was under a travel ban in Russia as part of a conviction for fraud in what was widely protested as unwarranted repression of the arts in Russia. Last year,...