Robert Redford did it, so has Robert De Niro; now the latest actor to start a film festival is Tilda Swinton.
You could say controversy is Constantin Costa-Gavras' middle name.
Global warming and overfishing have turned the surf off France's south coast into a gelatinous mass swarming with menace
Like a fine baguette on the Croissette, "The Screening Room" is about to become longer, fresher and crisper as we launch a new monthly show -- "The Screening Room Xtra."
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How do you create something that people want to spend more time with, and also want their groups of friends or social community to spend more time with?
Two documentaries at this year's Cannes Film Festival dealt with sporting legends.
CNN International is showing a special week of programming from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th June.
Celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was awarded Best Director in Cannes on Sunday. Perhaps now Turks will finally go see his movies
"Au secours!" is one of the first phrases you will find in French travel dictionaries but I have never heard it used -- until now. It's 1.15am and we have just locked an elderly French lady in a lift, so the phrase is now being used in its most urgent form.
Robert Redford did it, so has Robert De Niro; now the latest actor to start a film festival is Tilda Swinton.
You could say controversy is Constantin Costa-Gavras' middle name.
Global warming and overfishing have turned the surf off France's south coast into a gelatinous mass swarming with menace
Like a fine baguette on the Croissette, "The Screening Room" is about to become longer, fresher and crisper as we launch a new monthly show -- "The Screening Room Xtra."
Editor's note: Watch Tarantino talking about the making of "Pulp Fiction" on The Screening Room podcast. To receive regular movie podcasts subscribe here.
How do you create something that people want to spend more time with, and also want their groups of friends or social community to spend more time with?
Two documentaries at this year's Cannes Film Festival dealt with sporting legends.
CNN International is showing a special week of programming from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th June.
Celebrated Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan was awarded Best Director in Cannes on Sunday. Perhaps now Turks will finally go see his movies
"Au secours!" is one of the first phrases you will find in French travel dictionaries but I have never heard it used -- until now. It's 1.15am and we have just locked an elderly French lady in a lift, so the phrase is now being used in its most urgent form.
The French film The Class takes top honor and Clint Eastwood's Changeling stands out in a mostly disappointing year
Hudson and Armstrong were "beaming" at a Dolce & Gabbana party, a source tells PEOPLE
The Czech supermodel will "definitely" have balloons at son George's first birthday June 1
A "small" French film takes the big prize at the festival while the Americans are shut out, except for Benicio del Toro
Mary Corliss evaluates the buzz (and identifies the dark horses) for the Palme d'Or and the other big awards at the festival
The actress – resurfacing after Heath Ledger's tragic death – has two movies at the film festival
The BFFs turn heads in the South of France, while mom Dina calls Ronson "a sweetheart"
Out of Charlie Kaufman's dangerous mind comes Synecdoche, New York
"It's the same height as the heel. Genius!" she says of adapting to having a broken foot
There has been a distinctly Latin flavor to this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Everyone has their childhood favorite: whether it is the hand-drawn beauty of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs;" or the modern, computer-generated genius of "Shrek." Cartoons have always been a family staple in the movie industry.
Radiant in lace, the actress walks her first red carpet since Heath Ledger̢۪s death
The two American directors are back on the Riviera - one for the world premiere of his Che Guevara bio-pic, the other to give a film "master class"
Two movies and two babies on the way, she leaves the festival amid Oscar talk
"[He's] so sorry he couldn't be there with everyone," the actor's rep tells PEOPLE
Brad and Angelina pick out all white outfits for their soon-to-be-born twins
Will the Hollywood legend win the top prize of the Palme d'Or with Changeling? Richard Corliss thinks he might have a shot
Cannes remembers movies and times gone by
From the conflicted soul of Mike Tyson to the changing landscape of China, as seen through eyes of the acclaimed Jia Zhangke, documentaries flood the Cannes Film Festival
The film festival is "always a good time," the pregnant Jolie tells PEOPLE
Woody Allen's latest, unveiled at Cannes, nails the art of falling in love and messing things up
Angelina Jolie is the talk of the Cannes Film Festival.
Two very different animated features stake their own ground at Cannes.
Palm trees, mild weather, the Mediterranean -- what more could you want? For film aficionados, the answer is movies, movies and more movies.
The world's largest film festival, which begins today, faces its biggest challenge: getting the world to care about the movie it shows
The actor playfully poses with 40 faux pandas to promote his new movie
The first Le Festival de Cannes opened September 1, 1939, an attempt to extend the tourist season and bring a little film flash to the little French Riviera town.
The rite of spring will also draw Madonna, Blanchett, Bardem, Cruz and Indiana Jones
Organizers of the Cannes Film Festival say Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting will lead this year's streamlined competition
While the Oscars is without doubt the grandest of all the awards ceremonies, it doesn't have the world stage to itself.
In 2007, a low-budget feature by a first-time German director, "Das Leben der Anderen" won Best Foreign Language film at the Oscars. Over the next 10 weeks, the film better known to English-speaking audiences as "The Lives of Others" brought in $8.2m at the US box office.
A superb Romanian film gives a creepy twist to Hollywood's unwanted-pregnancy comedies
Julian Schnabel, the 1980s "bad boy" artist turned director and interior designer, is in the spotlight again for his latest release, "Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Schnabel is best known for his million-dollar broken crockery paintings and critically acclaimed biopics "Basquiat" and "Before Night Falls."
From bedroom creators to big studios, hand-drawn to CGI, animation has charmed and entertained children -- and, increasingly, adults -- for many years. The Screening Room went to Annecy in France to discover the secrets of success in animated films...
Sean Penn will say "bonjour" to Cannes this summer, the film festival's organizers announced Thursday.
Jeon Do-yeon won the Best Actress prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her performance in the South Korean film "Secret Sunshine." Celebrated in her native South Korea for her roles in melodramatic soap operas and independent films, Jeon is the first Asian to win this prestigious prize. South Korea's most famous actress joins Talk Asia to discuss her rise into renown and takes a stroll around the cultural neighborhood of Daehango in Seoul with host Anjali Rao.
A happy, healthy birthday to Roger Ebert, America's movie critic
Wait until you see what is about to happen to you," says Harvey Weinstein, sitting in the back seat of a midnight-blue Peugeot, car No. 3 in a nine-vehicle motorcade. The procession is inching down La Croisette, the seaside boulevard that meanders through Cannes on the French Riviera. Tonight it is lined on both sides with fans hoping to catch a glimpse of celebrities en route to the premiere of Michael Moore's "Sicko."
Oceans 13, the third installment from Clooney's crew, is limp, by-the-numbers movie-making
A searing abortion drama from Romania takes the festival's top prize, while the Americans are largely ignored
Beyoncé Knowles wants to be a mom - but not just yet.
It's almost impossible, but here's a look at two of the Festival favorites
For a festival celebrating its 60th year, the Cannes Film Festival proved mighty frisky. Sure, a handful of the 21 international titles in competition were dolorous arthouse tush-testers - but enough films pleased, entertained and touched a viewer that Cannes 2007 turned out to be memorable.
Start with the romance and allure of the French Riviera, the warm weather of an evening in late May infused with the smell of blooming jasmine, add a lineup of air-kissing international movie stars, directors, and film-makers, and voila! The 60th Cannes Film Festival gets under way.
Richard and Mary Corliss on six Cannes movies that replay the battle of the sexes
A bold and vivacious cartoon wins over the crowd in Cannes
At Cannes, this year's hot word-of-mouth hit turns out to be the dark, magical Spanish thriller The Orphanage
Angelina Jolie, Gus Van Sant and a terrorist lawyer share the Riviera screens
Last year at Cannes, British director Ken Loach carried away the Palme d'Or for his film, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley." This year, he, along with 32 other leading directors, took part in the Cannes "Chacun a son cinema," a series of three-minute films to celebrate the festival's 60th anniversary.
We've come to the south of France to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cannes -- the most famous film festival of them all.
She was the object of desire for most of the male population in the 1950's and 60's and one was one of the first actresses to earn the title "sex kitten."
A treehouse is a small hut, built or placed up in the branches of a tree for children to play in, right?
A Russian businessman has bought what is believed to be the world's most expensive cell phone.
The long-awaited movie version of Dan Brown's best-seller "The Da Vinci Code" is entering the world to disapproval.
German director Wim Wenders and American actor/playwright Sam Shepard screened their neo-Western "Don't Come Knocking" in competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
"Star Wars" director George Lucas says that although he wrote the original film during the Vietnam War, his six-part saga could apply to the war in Iraq.
One of the best, and most fun, inventions of my lifetime is that combination of classic design and inspired engineering, the Mini.
When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled into Cannes in mid-May, people couldn't help but gawk at his newest toy. Completed late last year, the 414-foot-long Octopus is the largest private yacht...
He won't be welcome at the Republican National Convention this summer.
Michael Moore's controversial anti-Bush film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to resounding applause from film critics.
The 57th annual Cannes Film Festival has opened with strife, star power and a 12-day lineup of the usual mix of glitz, glamour and controversy.
Kazahkstan's Alexander Vinokourov, Paris-Nice winner for the last two years, clinched his second win of the 2004 race with a fine solo effort in Saturday's seventh stage.
Russian Denis Menchov of the Baleares team won a sprint finish to win Friday's 173.5km sixth stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race from Rasteau to Gap.
More than one billion people are now using Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phones, almost one in six of the world's population. Not bad for a technology launched 12 years ago.
Three years ago, as Chief Competitive Officer at Palm, MICHAEL Mace wouldn't think twice before ordering a $70,000 scouting report on the Japanese handheld market or buying a last-minute plane tick...
As buck-wild party towns go, Davos is hardly Cannes. But this year at least a few Economic Forum luminaries got their groove on when the Soul Solution band played the main Saturday night Belvedere ...
When you hear people talk about film festivals, you probably conjure up images that make them seem off-limits to mere mortals--Harvey Weinstein of Miramax puffing on a cigar while discussing his la...
Many "isms" dominate the managerial mindscape: capitalism, Taylorism, cynicism. But one particular "ism" whose potential business impact seems woefully undervalued is tourism.
This hasn't been the most stable year for those in the public eye. Cisco, once unassailable, has become unmentionable. The bickering, underachieving Lakers transformed themselves into the Second Co...
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The 38th annual Cannes Film Festival opened with a distinctive American flavor: four of the 19 films shown officially were made in the U.S., compared with two last year. American filmmakers flocked...
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