Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Review: 'Only God Forgives' Stretches Refn's Neon-Noir Style Over Too Little Oedipal, Amoral Substance

With the weight of expectation behind it, Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” was never going to be able to deliver the same neon blue jolt of surprise that thrilled through the 2011 Cannes crowd at the first screening of “Drive.” But the audience in attendance today was prepped and primed, a...

Strand Buys Sexy Un Certain Regard Hit 'Stranger By the Lake'

Cannes Fest Diary: Le Weekend, from Compelling 'Jimmy P.' to Toback's Doc and 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

It was a weird, wooly and wet weekend in Cannes. And it began with what has to be one of the stranger ideas ever put forward for a film: “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian” from Arnaud Desplechin (the wonderful “A Christmas Tale”). Based on a book by French anthropologist/psychotherapist Ge...

Cannes Review: 'La Grande Bellezza' An Indulgent But Dreamy Reflection On Life, Love & More

Opening with a literal bang from a cannon and proceeding into an over-the-top party sequence, Paolo Sorrentino lets you know from the start that nothing will be held back in his latest, "La Grande Bellezza." After breaking out on the international scene with "The Consequences of Love" and "Il Divo,...

Telefilm Canada has Signed up to Promote Vancouver-Based CineCoup Film Accelerator’s Million-Dollar Indie Filmmaking Competition.

Telefilm, the Canada Government cultural agency devoted to supporting the Canadian audiovisual industry, will back CineCoup’s reality-style competition through publicity, cross-promotions and marketing.

Matt Damon’s Brazilian Tan Line, And 9 Other Highlights From Cannes 'Behind The Candelabra' Press Conference

It was hard to envisage as positive a Cannes response to a U.S. competition film as that which greeted the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” the other day, but if such a thing is possible, it may well have happened today, for Steven Soderbergh’s wonderful Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra” (...

Cannes: James Toback Talks 'Seduced and Abandoned,' Double Act with Alec Baldwin on the Croisette and More

Last year, James Toback descended on Cannes with cohort Alec Baldwin to shoot the documentary "Seduced And Abandoned." This year, Toback is in town to screen the film and discuss its contents with interested parties. Of which I am most definitely one, having thoroughly relished his supremely enterta...

Cannes Contender 'A Touch of Sin' Heads To Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber has acquired all US rights to Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin," currently in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

CANNES 2013: Images: Part 2

After nearly four straight days of rain, sunshine has finally graced the Croissette. It’s glorious. Wardrobes have gotten significantly skimpier and smiles have broadened greatly, and everyone at Cannes seems to be settling in.