Cannes Film Festival

Lots of Movies This Week Blur the Line Between Fiction and Reality

Judging from current releases, the hallmark of screen success isn't landing a starring role in Man of Steel; it's getting a movie filmed in your house. Shot in 12 days at the filmmaker's Malibu home, Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing took in a healthy per-screen gross over the weekend. Likewise s ... More >>

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Cannes Film Festival: The Korean Woody Allen, and an Iranian Game-Changer

After operating at maybe 75 percent of its potential for almost its first full week, on Sunday the Cannes Film Festival kicked into full auteurist gear, with the premieres of three formally audacious new works from three contemporary international art film stars: Michael Haneke's Amour (which we alr ... More >>

Cannes Fetish Porn? Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Sex Tourism in Paradise (Love)

Hot French double-amputee on bare-knuckle boxer sex. Fleshy Austrian cougar cycles between multiple young, fit African gigolos. Loglines of highly-specific fetish porn, or of movies premiering Thursday in the Cannes Film Festival main competition? Perhaps both, but definitely the latter: Oscar win ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

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AFI wraps edition

Cannes Wrap: Melancholia's Battle With The Tree of Life Overwhelms the Festival

Cannes 2011: The Winners

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Rapture at Cannes: The Twisted Poetry of Lars von Trier's "I am a Nazi" Scandal

​ After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition title ... More >>

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cannes 2011: Lars von Trier Kicked Out

Lars von Trier's Melancholia​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Big news day on La Croisette: First, the only outside story with any traction here became a bit more intense when reports of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation fueled the conspiracy stories to which some French subscribe: Had the IMF chief been ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Wow.

Lars von Trier's Melancholia​ The second shoe dropped -- or rather exploded -- this morning in Cannes. A combination of luck and programming genius contrived to have Lars von Trier's Melancholia screened for the press a mere 48 hours after the first showing of Terrence Malick's Tree of Life. O ... More >>

Cannes 2011: White People Fucking and Team Tree of Life

​ I saw Tree of Life on Monday morning when everyone else saw Tree of Life, but instead of writing about it right away, I went straight into a screening of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan. By the time I emerged two hours later, many of my colleagues had already posted their Tree of Life reviews, w ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Good Movies, Where Are You?

​ CANNES, France. The air is sweet, the food is fine, the company agreeable, but the movies so far... oy vey. With one exception: Inspired by the true story of a Tijuana beauty queen who got mixed up with the local narco gangsters, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala is a ferociously paced crime thri ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries

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Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it's too late

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Gogi Gui and a Movie?

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Regard From Cannes

Hollywood stars and name-brand Euro auteurs are conquered by Carlos the Jackal,Thai magical realism and a whole lot of Romanians

Godard, zombies and the economy: ColCoa French film festival starts tonight

This post is by Doug Cummings, author of the world cinema blog FilmJourney.org. ​ Since 1996, the annual City of Lights, City of Angeles film festival has offered a week of North American and world premieres of new French films along with an array of public discussions and events. It's known ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

New York Film Festival: Window on the World

New home, old mission for 47th annual event

Men Are From Seoul, Women Are From Pusanthe: The films of South Korean director Hong Sang-soo

Funny People, Funny Business

What's no laughing matter in movies and media this week

Apocalypse Maintenant: Last Week at Cannes

CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

Cannes, Certainly: Surprises and Discoveries in Fest's Parallel Section

Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivals

Where the best movies aren't necessarily the ones in the competition

Up with Cannes, Coppola

The best film to open the Cannes Film Festival in the seven years I've been attending, and just a lovely film all around, the Pixar studios' Up (which opens in wide release next Friday, May 29) suggests what Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino might have looked like if, instead of standing his ground, East ... More >>

Cannes Day Zero: J. Hoberman, Live from France

In addition to L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas, Village Voice's longtime film critic J. Hoberman will be filing regular dispatches from this year's Cannes Film Festival. Day zero: Hoberman plans his schedule, looks for strawberries, equates Quentin Tarantino's proudly misspelled Inglourious Basterds to ... More >>

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Berlin Film Festival: Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wo ... More >>

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Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

The Passion of the Cash

Da Vinci Cannes the world

Tori Spelling's Got My Back . . .

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Tori Spelling’s Got My Back...

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Days 5 & 6: The Midpoint

Halfway through this year's Toronto Film Festival, gossip about the festival's hits and misses has reached something of a fever pitch. As far as I've been able to gather, a few movies — Bennett Miller's Capote, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain among them ... More >>

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

A Blow to the Head

The 51st Cannes film festival