I’m celebrating the artistry of filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who won the Palme d’Or at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival for his movie It Was Just an Accident, and remembering our one-of-a-kind walk-and-talk.
Tweet As the 65th edition of Cannes came to a close Sunday, feature film jury president Nanni Moretti and jury members including filmmakers Alexander Payne, Raoul Peck and Andrea Arnold; actors Ewan McGregor, Diane Kruger, Hiam Abbass and Emmanuelle Devos…
Tweet The summer blockbuster season is underway with Men in Black 3 leading the Memorial Day 2012 pack and the season’s first phenomenon, Walt Disney’s The Avengers, continuing to attract crowds excited to watch their favorite Marvel Universe character save…
Tweet As the 65th edition of Cannes crept to a close today, film buffs and professionals worldwide waited anxiously for today’s announcement of the coveted Palme d’Or prize. Leading into the final curtain call for the 2012 editition of Cannes,…
Tweet Film buffs worldwide are already debating the movies chosen for the 65th Cannes Film Festival, which announced its program today via a press conference led by delegate general Thierry Fremaux at Paris’ Grand Hotel. London’s The Guardian posts a…
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival came to a close yesterday and according to The Guardian Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, a drama about a 1950s Texas family, starring Brad Pitt as a somewhat stern father and Sean Penn…
Tweet The biggest news out of the 64th Cannes Film Festival continued to be Danish director Lars von Trier. Not Von Trier’s competition film Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst as a bride preparing for her wedding while a planet hurtles towards…
Tweet Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier first earned his reputation as the bad boy auteur of the Cannes Film Festival with divisive movies like Antichrist and his 2000 Palme d’Or winner Dancer in the dark. In recent years, Von Trier…
Tweet Brad Pitt found himself defending his Tree of Life director, Terrence Malick, at a Cannes press conference for the world premiere of the film, about a 1950s Texas family, starring Pitt as the somewhat stern father. Malick, famously private…
Tweet The 64th Cannes Film Festival wrapped up its opening weekend festivities and the crowds went crazy for Johnny Depp and the rest of his Pirates of the Caribbean colleagues as they hit the Croisette to promote the fourth installment…