Cannes Film Festival

Sony Pictures Classics Sets December 19 Date for Cannes Winner "Amour," Signals Oscar Chase

The big question coming out of Cannes is whether Sony Pictures Classics can push Michael's Haneke's somber end-of-life Palme d'Or winner "Amour" all the way to major category Oscar nominations beyond best foreign film.

5 Breakout Performers & Directors From The 2012 Cannes Film Festival

One of the greatest things about film festivals, one of the things that gets you through the worst films, the lack of sleep, and the terrible B.O. of your fellow moviegoers, is the chance to discover new talent. You'll see absolute newcomers blast off into the stratosphere, or relatively well-known ...

Cannes Good-Buys? Should Indie filmmakers be worried about distribution landscape

File this post under the politics of filmmaking (not film and politics). Looking at the acquisition landscape after Cannes got me thinking: Should filmmakers be worried? Cannes is never the business hotbed that is Sundance, but this year's number of purchases seemed to be muted. Even IFC Film...

Criticwire at Cannes: The Top Films and Performances Poll

"Amour" and "Holy Motors" close out Cannes as the Criticwire favorites, but what gangsters and singers also made the best of the festival lists? And which films drew both applause and disappointment?

The Playlist's Complete Coverage Of The 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes is done for another year. Exhausted filmmakers, writers and sales types have pretty much emptied out of the South of France, Michael Haneke has his second Palme D'Or in four years, and some of the most anticipated films of the year have been unveiled. The lineup had been incredibly eagerl...

Cannes: Kristen Stewart & Garrett Hedlund Talk Making Walter Salles' 'On The Road'

If any film at Cannes this year faced the most fevered anticipation, it was Walter Salles' "On The Road." Not just because the project had been over thirty years in the making, and was based on a beloved, groundbreaking novel, but also because it features an exciting young cast lead by "Twilight" st...

The Shadow & Act 2012 Cannes Film Fest Wrap-up; What Got Acquired, Or Are Still Without Homes?

Cannes Review: Cronenberg's Dystopian "Cosmopolis" Stars Pattinson as Dissolute Master of the Universe

"Life is too contemporary," Didi Fancher (Juliette Binoche) tells Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) after they've just had sex in the back of his limousine. That seems to be the global concern in "Cosmopolis," a headlong plunge into a dystopian urban milieu of greed, corruption, technology, nihilism, y...

Cannes Virgin Diary 5: Post-Festival Reflections, "Holy Motors"

Cannes is over, and I'm writing this on a train to Paris. Today, all the films in the main competition were screened once more so had I elected to stay another night in Cannes, I could have seen everything I wanted. But instead, I chose to end my time at Cannes with one film: Leos Carax's "Holy Moto...