Cannes Film Festival

Cannes International Film Festival or as the French say, "Festival De Cannes", is the one of the oldest and most revered film festivals in the world. Texas director, Brad Montesi, was invited to attend the festival this year with his film, Recess, an award ...  

After a wild festival full of polarizing films, the Cannes Film Festival has handed out its own awards, courtesy of jurors like Alexander Payne, Ewan McGregor, and Diane Kruger. Still, now that the sand has settled on the Croisette, it's time for Vulture to close things out with our own awards ceremony, honoring the best, brightest, and weirdest that Cannes had to offer. From handsome new actors to wild and crazy sex scenes, here's how Vulture...  

For three years Paris journalist Franck Finance Maduiera (love his name) has tried to invoke a queer presence on the Croisette of the Cannes Film Festival, and a prize honoring the work of queer filmmakers. It is a noble and ambitious effort in ...  

And just like that, the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival is over with this year's top prize, the Palme d'Or, awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for Amour, his heartwrenching drama about an octogenarian husband and ...  

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - There was Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, red carpet glamour and a crop of new Academy Award contenders — but this was also the year the global financial crisis exploded onto movie screens at Cannes.  

As America donned white attire for the beaches, barbecues and movies of Memorial Day weekend, France concluded its own pre-summer celebration: the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This year's top honor, the much-coveted Palme d'Or, was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haenke for his film [...]  

There were plenty of celeb sightings at the 12-day long Cannes Film Festival and many of the stars gave us a lot of fashion eye candy to drool over. The event is all about whipping out the high fashion and taking risks with the ensembles. Out of all the ...  

G-Star, known for their innovative denim construction, opened its flagship store in Cannes during the 65th Cannes Film Festival unveiling the new face of G-Star - actor Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men: First Class). Jones will star in the...  

Cannes' red carpet best dressed are rarely necessarily the biggest stars ... Diane Kruger is one of my ultimate red carpet style stars, so she's actually made my list twice. Once in elegant mint chiffon and and the other in slinky, draped Westwood.  

Another year, another Cannes Film Festival in the can comes to an end. And other than the endless can-puns, it also means the red carpet — and the glittering celebs who walked it — is too fini. But it had a good run! The 65th annual festival, which awarded the coveted Palme d’Or to Michael…Read [...]  

Strand Releasing Nabs US Rights to 'Garbage in the Garden' and 'Mekong Hotel' Strand Releasing has picked up U.S. distribution on two official selections of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Fatih Akin’s documentary “Garbage in the Garden of Eden” and A ...  

Another year, another Cannes Film Festival in the can comes to an end. But it had a good run! The 65th annual event, which awarded the coveted Palme d'Or to Michael Haneke for his film, "Amour," had its faire share of priceless photo ops.  

He said the biggest fights had been over Leos Carax's bizarre and episodic "Holy Motors," Ulrich ... Payne said it would be wrong to draw any conclusions about the state of a nation's cinema "based on one tiny snapshot." Other much-praised performances ...  

Long known as a playground for the good and the glamorous of Hollywood, Susannah Frankel rounds up some of the best outfits from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Related StoriesIn Pictures: Fashion extravaganza in RioElizabeth Hurley: Packing is hardKelly Brook: Cannes dressing is arduousVictoria Beckham gave Longoria Cannes adviceVictoria Beckham gave Eva Longoria Cannes advice  

German star Heidi Klum attended the premiere of “The Paperboy” during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. 38-year-old starlet brought ultimate glamor to red carpet in dramatic Marchesa gown. Stunning diva, Heidi Klum stand out from the ...  

Michael Hanekes Amour has won the top prize the Palme dOr at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival The movie about an elderly woman played by Emmanuelle Riva who suffers a series of strokes and the husband played by Jean-Louis Trintignant who lovingl...  

+ 1 choose the dresses elie saab for me is not a sufficient risk-taking. Although I voted Doutzen in elie saab because the color, cut and material of the dress has been little seen on the red carpet. Her dresses can make anyone ...  

by Carolyn Robertson posted in Celebrities After two very glamorous weeks, the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival came to a close last night. As always, some of the world's biggest stars descended on the south of France for the event, with everyone from Brad Pitt to Nicole Kidman putting in multiple red carpet appearances to... Read more »  

Brokeback Mountain' director Ang Lee will compete at the festival with his film 'Taking Woodstock'. The other previous Palme winners competing at the festival are Jane Campion, Lars Von Trier and Ken Loach.  

Quintessentially Villas name the top 5 villas in their portfolio that can play home to the cream of the crop when staying in Cannes during this famous film festival. Eva Longoria - QV24452 Let’s begin with one of the most glamorous ladies in the industry ...  

Main prize-winners at the 65th Cannes Film Festival Sunday: Palme d'Or: Amour, Michael Haneke (Austria) Best Director: Post Tenebras Lux, Carlos Reygadas (Mexico) Best Actress: Jointly awarded to Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan ...  

CANNES, France — The Canadian director David Cronenberg has a long and eventful history at the Cannes Film Festival: he has competed for the Palme d’Or three times and was awarded a lifetime achievement prize in 2006. He has also stirred ...  

The 65th Cannes film festival has handed out its top prize Palme d'Or to "Amour"(Love), as it wrapped up with a star-studded closing ceremony here on the rainy night yesterday in the French Riviera resort.  

In Michael Haneke's tightly coiled masterwork "Amour," awarded the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim Sunday, a retired music teacher portrayed by Emmanuelle Riva must cope with diminishing circumstances brought on by a stroke.  

Cannes Film Festival one of the biggest showbiz stars gathering, during the show numerous awards were given to the deserving Actors, Actresses, Directors and many more. The winners of the categories announced on ...  

David Cronenberg's adaptation of Don DeLillo's postmodern, Ulysses-like novel Cosmopolis plays like a profoundly perverse, darkly comic successor to Videodrome. Taking on another "unfilmable" novel, Cronenberg again accomplishes something remarkable ...  

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, “Amour.” The Austrian director’s powerful and ...  

Diane Kruger graced the red carpet at the closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival today. She was among the juror panel that presented director Michael Haneke's Amour with this year's Palme d'Or, the competition's ...  

CANNES, France - Michael Haneke won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize for a second time Sunday with his stark film about love and death, "Amour." The Austrian director's powerful and understated film stars two French acting icons — 85-year-old ...  

Films out of the main competition included the 3D animation "Madagascar 3: Europe's most wanted", Ken Burns' documentary "The Central Park Five" and Philip Kaufman's "Hemingway & Gellhorn", among many others. The Cannes film festival has been held annually ...  

The story isn't his though; it belongs to two young'uns, Ellis (Tye Sheridan ... who could have been the focus of a far odder duck of a film. Shannon's Galen is introduced trying unsuccessfully to sweet-talk a gal into some kink. When he isn't too busy ...  

As the Cannes Film Festival 2012 wrapped up for the year ... film festival after he won the Palme d’Or for his film “The White Ribbon” in 2009. The Grand Prix runner-up prize was awarded to Matteo Garrone’s “Reality,” an examination ...  

Lee Daniels has made something far afield from his 2009 sophomore effort, Precious, with The Paperboy, a somewhat campy, exploitative, '70s style feature with thematic hints of A Time to Kill and To Kill a Mockingbird and a second half vibe that reminded ...  

Michael Haneke's Amouur takes the top prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival with Beyond the Hills taking home awards for Best Actress and Screenplay. Shut out of the proceedings were Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone and Leos Carax's Holy Motors, both of which were highly touted during the fest.  

Reese Witherspoon joined Matthew McConaughey at the Palais des Festivals to promote their new movie, 'Mud' during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival yesterday. For the photocall the 36-year-old pregnant actress donned a ...  

Love conquered all at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which had its closing awards ceremony ... This is the second time he has picked up the award, the first being in 2009 for his political period drama The White Ribbon.  

“La Crise” — as the French call it — bedeviled Robert Pattinson’s disaster-bound billionaire in David Cronenberg’s “Cosmopolis,” the unemployed Glasgow youth in Ken Loach’s “The Angels’ Share,” the bare-knuckle boxer in Jacques ...  

CANNES, France, May 27 (Xinhua) - For Asian professionals in the film industry, the world-famous Cannes film festival on the French Riviera has always been a hard-fought battle far away from home. Although barely eligible to contend for the festival's ...  

Pablo Trapero (whose White Elephant is also in the Un Certain Regard programme), Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar Noé, Juan Carlos Tabío and Laurent Cantet contributing a chapter each. Vivid, colourful and sporadic, this mix of cinematic ...  

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY feels "very honored" to have two movies competing for the coveted Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. Lee Daniels' The Paperboy and Jeff Nichols' Mud, which screened on Saturday (26May12) as the festival's final competition ...  

Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Jacob Lofland, Tye Sheridan and director Jeff Nichols were there to represent their film “Mud” which premiered during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 26, 2012 in ...  

CANNES, France — At 40, Carlos Reygadas is firmly established as the leading enfant terrible of Mexican cinema and a favored son of the Cannes Film Festival. All four of his features, starting with his 2002 debut, “Japón,” have been shown ...  

"Our general conditions ban the presence of all films threatening public order or religious convictions, as well as pornographic films or those inciting violence," the film market's executive director Jerome Paillard told AFP. While the film will not be ...  

However, this is surely not the best of Kiarostami’s work to this date. The film begins with Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a diligent student by day and an escort by night, getting assigned with a client – a grandfatherly academic Takashi (Tadashi Okuno).  

Joining her co-stars on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, the French actress was upstaged somewhat, but she still looked delightful in her vintage-inspired dress. The cream tea-length dress with an embroidered bodice and ...  

AUSTRIAN director Michael Haneke was the popular winner of the Cannes film festival's top honour yesterday with "Love" (Amour), an elegiac tale of an elderly couple facing the inescapable, yet no less tragic march of death.  

No fireworks, but plenty of thunder, lightning and another surprise flash shower. Umbrellas were de rigueur for the final strut up the red carpet for the closing night ceremony, as the Cannes Film Festival came to a rain-soaked end on Sunday.  

and closing ceremony pics. Check it. Cannes jury members Karim Ainouz, Arsinee Khanjian, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Yu Lik-wai and Emmanuel Carrere attended the Closing Ceremony and Therese Desqueyroux premiere on May 27th.  

Crazed nuns, talking cars, whisky heists; slow death, true love, and several violent deaths for our canine cousins; rain, wind and more rain. That was Cannes 2012.Blog silence has been down to the long days of Cannes. I've seen 16 films, most of them, in one way or another, extraordinary. None was directed by a woman and only two by a non-white director. In my view, the jurors chose easily the best film for the Palme D'Or, for all the blissful...  

The situation drew letters and petitions in France and the United States, and even a small protest by feminist group La Barbe in front of Cannes' famous red carpet. Cannes director Thierry Fremaux responded that he chose films solely on merit ...  

Professor Insdorf is Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University, and she previously co-anchored from Cannes for decades with Roger Ebert. Prairie Miller is a NY multimedia journalist online, in print and on radio, and on WBAI ...  

The movie tells the story of a Naples fishmonger obsessed with watching and becoming the star of reality TV. ‘Reality’ is directed by Matteo Garrone, who explained his influences: “My point of reference for this film is certainly connected ...  

Go on, admit it, you’ve loved the Cannes Film Festival this year, haven’t you? We’ve really enjoyed monitoring (and more importantly, judging, scrutinising and applauding) the stars’ wardrobe choices over the past couple of weeks and are kind of upset it’s all come to an end. Still, the red carpet [...]  

Mexico's Carlos Reygadas on Sunday won the prize for best director at the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival for "Post Tenebras Lux." "I would like to thank the festival, which believed in this film, which invited it to be here and which ...  

Bonnie Wright's Cannes Film Festival 2012 Red Carpet Looks. Why was Bonnie Wright at Cannes Film Festival? I really want to know. Granted not everyone is at Cannes to promote a movie. The Hilton sisters and Kelly Brook ...  

VarietyHaneke's "Love" wins to cheers at Cannes film festivalReutersBy Mike Collett-White and Alexandria Sage | CANNES, France (Reuters) - Austrian director Michael Haneke was the popular winner of the Cannes film festival's top honor on Sunday with "Love" (Amour), an elegiac tale of an elderly couple facing the ...Haneke's 'Amour' wins top prize at CannesUSA TODAYCannes Film Festival Shows Love for 'Amour'Wall Street Journal (blog)UPDATE 1...  

Every May, tastemakers flock to the south of France for twelve days of movie screenings, splashy soirees, and stylish ensembles—otherwise known as the annual Cannes Film Festival! The famed Promenade de la Croisette, ...  

Equipped with 3D technology, Hong Kong director Xu Ke (Tsui Hark) returns to the 'wuxia' genre that he helped redefine. Crime thriller "Night Fall" is set to hit mainland cinema screens on Thursday, March 15. A trailer featuring behind the scenes footage ...  

Oh, Brad. We really love you but you’re way too old for long surfer-dude hair. The 48-year-old turned up at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his flick Killing Them Softly and walked the red carpet in a grey suit with a casual white T-shirt ...  

New Orleans filmmaker Benh Zeitlin won the coveted Camera d'Or prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival today for his new film Beasts of the Southern Wild. The Camera d'Or is awarded each year at Cannes to the best film by a first-time director.  

Correct? Well that would have much less to do with movies and much more to do with make-up. Attending the premiere of Mud and in skintight Alex Perry, the David Jones clotheshorse scored an invitation because she is the Australian face of L'Oreal Paris ...  

London, May 27 : Italian actor Aniello Arena is a strong contender for best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, but the only problem is that he is serving a life sentence in prison. He has been hailed as an unlikely blend of Robert de Niro, Mr Punch ...  

Its writer-director ... year's Academy Award for best foreign-language picture. Mads Mikkelsen won best actor for the Thomas Vinterberg drama"The Hunt,"in the role of a teacher wrongly accused of sexual abuse. The actress prize was split ...  

This Week In Beauty: Best & Worst From The Cannes Film Festival (PHOTOS)Huffington PostWhile the red carpeted step-and-repeat has been getting a little wearisome, the dozens of parties and premieres have meant there's plenty of beauty to examine from this past week. Who had the best wine-stained lips? The wackiest braid?  

The Cannes Film Festival might belong to France, but attendees to this year's soiree could be excused if things felt a little more French Quarter than French Riviera along the Croisette this year. From "Beasts of the Southern Wild" to "Killing ...  

The Cannes International Film Festival is the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals. This means that all the celebrities and starlets flock to France to attend, and they bring their fashion-sense with them! The Cannes red carpet is ...  

One of the interesting things about the media elites in the United States is that while they generally abhor the social values, heritage and even the people who created the traditional South, they can also not stop making ...  

Getting to Cannes And when we received invitations to screen a film ... No matter where you eat, the views are amazing, and there's a party atmosphere in the air that's shared among all of us. Cannes 'Walk of Fame' Close to the Palais, we took a stroll ...  

Continuing the international road show he began with Certified Copy, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami transplants his customary techniques to the soil of Japanese culture with unquestionable success. Kiarostami's latest ...  

Getting all dressed up after their morning photo call, the stars of "Cosmopolis" hit the red carpet at the 65th Cannes film festival in Cannes, France on Friday (May 25). The film's leading man, Robert Pattinson, looked studly in a suit as he took to the Palais...read more  

Highlights of the Bank's participation include a paper presentation led by Mr. Awami Mohammed, the Bank's Assistant Manager, Credit Insurance and Guarantee Department, issues on Co-financing/Co-production opportunities for the Nigerian Motion Picture ...  

Arguably the most powerful film presented at this year's Cannes Film Festival was screened with virtually no promotion and out of competition Thursday night. The film, The Central Park Five, by Ken Burns, America's leading documentary filmmaker ( The Civil ...  

We've been on the scene at the Cannes Film Festival for the past week, reporting as movie stars hit the Croisette to show off their films and talking to many actors, like Gael García Bernal, as they made the press rounds.  

The bookends to the period are Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, which made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last week. Things are going great even as Pitt insists that movie-making ...  

The Cannes film festival on Saturday wrapped up the movies in competition wading deep in the Mississippi river with "Mud," a heart-wrenching, Mark Twain-influenced tale of a teenage boy searching for the meaning of life in a harsh world and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese...  

Carlos Reygadas Brings Surrealism to Cannes Film FestivalFox NewsAs the credits rolled on the first Cannes Film Festival screening of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' new film, someone in the audience shouted out "Viva Buñuel!" The reference to surrealist cinema icon Luis Buñuel was apt.and more »  

French actress Virginie Ledoyen wore Saab this week. Another big growth area is charitable events. The grand-daddy of them all is Amfar, an Aids benefit which, over the years, has had everyone from Sharon Stone, Madonna and Princess Charlene of Monaco in attendance.  

26 de mayo de 2012, 13:02Paris, May 26 (Prensa Latina) The 65th Cannes Film Festival enters Saturday in its final stage with the screening of the last two films in competition, "Do-nui mat" by South Korean Im Sang-soo, and "Mud" by U.S. filmmaker Jeff Nichols.  

Carlos Reygadas (Post Tenebras Lux) Walter Salles (On The Road) Ulrich (Paradise: Love) Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) Sources Reuters/http://www.festival-cannes.en (Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)  

So it’s all over here at Cannes save for the awardin’. And actually even that has already begun: I’m just back from catching up with the winner of the top prize in the Directors’ Fortnight (which you’ll recall is technically a completely separate festival that takes place down the street). Given that I only saw a handful of the films, I can’t say whether Pablo Larraín’s NO was the right choice, but it’s hands down the funniest movie I’ve seen...  

She also wore bright pink, peep-toe pumps for a little pop in her outfit du jour. While being photographed in the sunlight, Reese Witherspoon wore her hair in a low ponytail to represent for the movie called "Mud," which also stars Jeff Nichols ...  

Reese Witherspoon isn't letting a little thing like pregnancy get in the way of attending the Cannes Film Festival. Walking hand-in-hand with her hubby, Jim Toth, the Oscar winner was spotted arriving at Nice Côte d'Azur Airport on Thursday. Sporting a ...  

CANNES, France — The Austrian director Michael Haneke has made an art of exploiting audience discomfort. In a sense his new film, “Amour,” continues in that vein by staring down the least palatable of subjects: aging, sickness and death.  

Cannes you handle all this glamour? (sorry.) The 12-day-long fashion and film extravaganza is almost over, but the last two days have brought yet another onslaught of celebrities in gowns, pantsuits, and everything in ...  

International critics have given Gangs of Wasseypur, the first mainstream Bollywood film to be selected for the Director’s Fortnight, rave reviews following its world premiere at the 65 th  Cannes Film Festival earlier this week.  

This film was directed by Jeff Nichols – winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize and SACD Award at Cannes last year for his film “Take Shelter.” In “Mud,” two teenage boys encounter a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) and form a pact to ...  

"Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson fails to deliver in David Cronenberg's sleekly beautiful, but dramatically lifeless competition entry "Cosmopolis". Elsewhere on the Croisette, three furry, four-legged performers picked up prizes.  

Well this is a movie that I have been hearing a lot about! 'Cosmopolis' premiered tonight at The Cannes Film Festival and the movie's stars as well as its director David Cronenberg all did the traditional posing for pictures at the ...  

Lawless is in fact an international production - Hillcoat and two of his leading cast are Australian, as is scriptwriter and musician Nick Cave. But the 1930s tale of three bootlegging brothers in Virginia also features leading U.S. actors ...  

Since its inception, the Cannes Film Festival has been a magnet for beautiful people. This year's edition is no different, a time for established Hollywood stars like Jada Pinkett Smith and Jane Fonda to strut their stuff. Meanwhile, international ingenues ...  

There are six American films in competition and many of these films take place in the South – including his film Mud, a tear-jerking drama set around the Mississippi River. There's also Lee Daniels' The Paperboy which takes places in 1970s small-town ...  

He has been hailed as an unlikely blend of Robert de Niro, Mr Punch and Totò, Italy's best loved comic actor. There's just one catch, however – he is a convicted Camorra assassin, serving a life sentence in a Tuscan jail for his part in gunning down ...  

0 1 Gulshan Devaiya At The Screening Of 'Peddlers' At Cannes Gulshan Devaiya and the team of 'Peddlers' attended the screening of their film at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival 2012. Director Vasant Bala, prior to the screening, thanked all those who made it possible for the film to make it to the Cannes. Don't miss! 0 2 Anurag Promotes 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' At Cannes Anurag Kashyap promoted his two-part film 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' at the...  

The simple yet moving tale set almost entirely inside a Paris apartment left audiences in tears in Cannes, and it will prove a popular winner for a director considered one of the greatest working in Europe today. Haneke joins an elite group of two-time ...  

Last month Reese Witherspoon showed off her burgeoning baby bump at the beach, earlier this month she bared her bump on the tennis court. Today we see new photos of Reese at the Cannes International Film Festival and without a doubt she is bumping out like crazy! Reese attended a photocall event for her new [...]  

Canine stars have taken centre stage at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The unofficial Palm Dog prize was awarded on Friday (25May12) to Smurf and Ged, the two terriers featured in British comedy Sightseers. The triumphant duo steamed ahead of Billy ...  

The Nigerian Export-Import Bank is partnering the Nigerian Film Corporation in a co-sponsoring arrangement at the on-going 65th edition of Cannes International Film Festival, in France. The NEXIM team is at the festival to seek co-financing/co-production ...  

Indiewire's Anne Thompson said: 'What the footage reveals is that, for the moment, while Tarantino has described the film as a “southern”, Weinstein Co is selling this as a bang-up western, packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge.'  

The premiere and photo call during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France had the ladies looking as Pitt stole the show when he arrived. The fans no doubt were elated to see the actor once again show off ...  

It was all very exciting. A crowd of journalists in Cannes was invited to a special presentation of "footage" of Quentin Tarantino's new film Django Unchained on Monday night at the Majestic Hotel on the Croisette, outside which there is a poster for the ...  

Kim & Kanye: Cannes Film Festival 2012! ... The night before, Kanye premiered his movie, Cruel Summer, at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. “This is a dream come true,” Kanye told the crowd before he introduced the flick.  

Photo Credit: WENN Kylie Minogue stars as Eva / Jean in the French film Holy Motors, premiering at Cannes and in the running for the Palme d'Or. According to the Wiki, "It stars Denis Lavant as a man who travels between ...  

A group of Central Michigan University students are wrapping up the academic year in France where they are helping carry out the world's largest showcase of film: Festival de Cannes, running through Monday The students are minoring in event ...  

Diane Kruger, talented German actress attended premiere of Amour during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, held at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France on May 20, 2012. The always stunning, Diane Kruger wowed the audience donning sparkling fully sequined ...  

Rita Ora: Cannes Film Festival Arrivial! ... Rita Ora rocks a fashionable white ensemble as she arrives at the airport for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on Monday (May 21) in Nice, France. The 21-year-old rising British star later ...  

Day 9 of the Cannes Film Festival was oozing with style from every angle – and that was largely due to the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala. Actresses, singers and supermodels alike turned up on the red carpet to show their support, and as a result, presented us with some [...]  

Michael Haneke has won his second Palme d'Or in just three years as his "Amour" led the winners of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film -- which stars Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva -- focus on an elderly couple, Anne and ...  

In twelve hours on the Croisette, a party with dancing film critics and a chocolate fountain, a blunt crime thriller starring Brad Pitt, and a look at some of the more absurd films being shopped around the sprawling Cannes Market.  

CANNES, France — The Austrian director Michael Haneke has made an art of exploiting audience discomfort. In a sense his new film “Amour” continues in that vein by staring down the least palatable of subjects: aging, sickness and death.  

The Angels' Share stars William, Ruane, Gary Maitland and Paul Brannigan pose in their kilts at Cannes and, below, Brad Pitt UNEMPLOYED Scot Paul Brannigan and Hollywood movie idol Brad Pitt were the centre of attention at Cannes Film Festival press calls yesterday.  

In Mr. Carax’s first three features — including the romantic epic “Lovers on the Bridge” (1990) — Mr. Lavant played a character named Alex (Mr. Carax’s given name). After a long hiatus, during which they collaborated only once (on a ...  

Alina (Cristina Flutur) gets back from Germany to bring Voichita (Cosmina Stratan), her former orphanage classmate and the only person she loves and trusts in the whole world, back with her. But she soon discovers that Voichita has found a new ...  

Kanye West‘s much-ballyhooed film ‘Cruel Summer’ premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 23. A select crowd of distinguished guests attended a private screening of the movie before the general public gets a chance to view it.  

Before the awards were handed out, the stars of "Thérèse Desqueyroux" walked the red carpet. The film's star, Audrey Tautou, looked lovely as she posed with her costars. Though it was a somber time because the famed New Wave director, Claude Miller ...  

Singer/model Cassie, Entrepreneur Sean Combs and singer Rita Ora pose for a photo at the ‘Chopard Mystere’ Party during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival on Monday night (May 21) in Cannes, France. The swanky event also had appearances from … Continue  

The coveted Palme d’Or went to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke’s “Amour”, a sober, gorgeously directed portrait of an elderly couple facing terrifying questions of life and death. Some of the jury's other choices left people scratching their heads.  

The 2012 installment of the Cannes Film Festival is officially over, with top awards announced and handed out over the weekend. We kept you abreast of all the sales/potential sales that occurred during the festival/market, and with the event now ended, I thought I'd take a look at what films got picked up and what films are still on the table, that are of interest to this blog. First, the highest profile of the bunch, Lee Daniels...  

CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival enjoyed cheers and jeers in equal measure this year, leaving its famously passionate and picky audiences with plenty to love, loathe and laugh about. With two days to go before the close of the ...  

wins New Director's Prize at Canadian International Film Festival God's Neighbors is an Israeli-French co-production by Mark Rosenbaum and Transfax Film Productions and was one of seven films competing in the category. The movie features a group of young ...  

(CBS/AP) The actresses at Cannes are putting on quite the fashion show at this year's 65th annual Cannes Film Festival. Berenice Marlohe, the newest Bond girl, has been making the red carpet look like a day at the beach. One day it was a gold ...  

No film festival is complete without an unmitigated disaster, and Cannes 2012 finally served one up yesterday morning in the form of Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy,the most repugnant and inept movie to be inexplicably treated like high art since…whaddaya know, since Precious (Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire), the last film directed by Lee Daniels. Combining the lurid grotesquerie of exploitation quickies with the patronizing self-seriousness...  

Movie Investors, a new international movie fund for independent and studio-backed movies is thrilled to announce its exclusive celebrity supported launch party at this years Cannes Film Festival.The party will take place on Saturday, 26th May at No 100, Avenue des Anglais, Cannes, one of the most stunning villas in Cannes and the location of parties held in the past by MTV, DSquared and Puff Da.....  

At one point, K-Stew was seen, having a great time with former Spiderman actress Kirtsen Dunst. The event took place at the Palais des Festivals venue. Kristen chatted with the press about her provocative role in “On The Road,” stating “It ...  

Photo Credit: Splash News Online; WENN Today's featured film at the 65th Cannes Film Festival is "Killing Them Softly," a crime drama based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins. The feature is directed ...  

To make a comedy about serial killers is a tricky business unless you go all out for parody. Ben Wheatley’s film, which follows the much-praised Down Terrace and Kill List, doesn’t do that and is at least partially successful in treading the thin line between laughter and scariness.  

CANNES, France — Whether it’s the weather, the traffic or the movies, perhaps the best word to describe the Cannes Film Festival this year is “stuck.” From the outset, when organizers announced the directors competing for the festival’s top honor ...  

Holy Motors, a film presented in the official selection yesterday at Cannes is probably in a class of its own and has caused a lot of discussion.  It does need to be discussed, however, and maybe it is the best thing to happen to the Cannes Film Festival ...  

Everything went according to plan as Kanye West debuted his short film Cruel Summer at the Cannes Film Festival last night. According to a report by MTV, the 30-minute film, which is inspired by Yeezy’s forthcoming G.O.O.D. Music compilation record ...  

The Cannes Film Festival is indisputably one of the most anticipated film events of the year. It is associated with glamour, prestige, and cinematic brilliance. Yet the festival is also famous for its numerous scandals. This year Sean Penn's outburst during a press conference paled in comparison to past controversies that have occurred on the Croisette.  

UNEMPLOYED Scot Paul Brannigan and Hollywood movie idol Brad Pitt were the centre of attention at Cannes Film Festival press calls yesterday. But while Brad was at ease in front of a posse of photographers, Paul, who stars as Robbie in veteran director Ken ...  

Kill ME softly! Actor Brad Pitt looked extra dapper as he attended the photo call for his new movie “Killing Them Softly” at the 65th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on Tuesday (May 22)- more pictures below. Angelina Jolie Shows Off Huge Engagement Ring (PHOTO) For Christ’s sake, Brad is looking hotter than ever. I [...]  

Singer Kelis performs during at the 65th Cannes Film Festival at on Monday night (May 21) in Cannes, France. The 32 year-old performed a couple songs during the event and you can check out this user submitted video below… ( … Continue  

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 auda...  

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 ...  

Well, another year at the Cannes Film Festival comes to a close as I have seen my last film and am now flying back to sunny Seattle. All in all, I must say after three straight years attending the fest this was easily my most enjoyable. The films were ...  

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12:20 p.m. | Updated CANNES, France — At one point in “On the Road,” Walter Salles's respectable, muted take on Jack Kerouac's ecstatic American story, Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), who's trailed after his friends Carlo and ...  

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With the Cannes film fest all set to take off today, DNA gives a low-down on what B-Towners will be upto on the French Riviera. While news of actors Sonam Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan and company bracing themselves to walk down the red carpet at Cannes ...  

Cannes Film Festival is everyone’s favorite film festival. You get to leave LA, travel to the south of France, hang out on yachts in your bikini, and then at night put on a pretty gown and see some world class cinema. But here’s who ditched ...  

CANNES, France — A first in its glamorous history, the 65th Cannes Film Festival officially sponsored a charity benefit yesterday called Haiti: Carnival in Cannes, hosted by Sean Penn, supermodel Petra Nemcova and director Paul Haggis (“Crash”).  

Cannes, France —Whether it’s the weather, the traffic or the movies, perhaps the best word to describe the Cannes Film Festival this year is “stuck.” From the outset, when organizers announced the directors competing for the festival’s top honor, Cannes seemed stalled in a past era: Of the 22 films competing for the Palme d’Or this week, not one is directed by a woman, a nod to the mythical image of the heroic auteur that Cannes is famous for...  

CANNES, France — When the young Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra (born 1975) was asked if he ever became frustrated with how his country remains associated with the long, brutal years of the Pinochet era (1973-1990), during which thousands were ...  

CANNES, FRANCE — The Palme d’Or can increase ticket sales and jump-start careers, but for the Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who took home the top prize at Cannes in 2010 for “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” it ...  

The movie being talked about the most at this year's Cannes Film Festival in the south of France is Michael Haneke's Amour. It's the 65th anniversary of the festival. Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only.  

KELLY BROOK sparkled at the “Killing Them Softly” premiere during the Cannes Film Festival in a beautiful crystal-encrusted dress. Check her out: After donning a simple—but very glamorous—white ensemble at the  “Keith Lemon: The Film ...  

CANNES, France — Sean Penn tried to turn the conversation at the Cannes Film Festival to Haiti, hosting a fundraiser for the earthquake-ravaged and poverty-stricken country. It was the first time the festival has used its glitzy, global ...  

Although Brad said he wasn't troubled by violence in movies. The actor was speaking at a press conference after the world premiere screening of the film and said that violence is an accepted part of the gangster world and noted that violence goes hand in ...  

CANNES, France — Brad Pitt has arrived in Cannes with a hardboiled crime film featuring heavy doses of President Barack Obama and a backdrop of the economic crisis. Pitt stars in and produced “Killing Them Softly,” which screened at the ...  

(CBS/AP) Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" finally hits the big screen after decades of attempts to transform Kerouac's beat novel into a screenplay. The film premiered Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, far away from the American roads ...  

The 35-year-old actress apparently felt differently. She attended the premiere of "De Rouille et D'Os" while wearing a black Calvin Klein dress that had a sheer panel in the front. Not only is the dress boring, but the sheer panel just looks ridiculous.  

Gerard Butler is at the Cannes Film Festival to promote his next film, Motor City. He was also their to do a charity event for Haiti with Sean Penn. Gerry talks the ins and outs of Cannes. He says he never gets to see any movies, but you can't exactly walk the press line for someone else's movie. He also talks about the other films he has in production. Take a look: Permalink | Recent Headlines | Facebook | Our News Feeds  

Thrillers come in all shapes and sizes. But Brad Pitt’s latest venture is more original, and also weirder, than most. It was received in almost total silence after its first Cannes screening, which generally means the critics were either bored or absorbed by it. Maybe a bit of both.  

The actor, 48, looked cool and casual as he attended a photocall for the new film. Dressed in a beige suit and white T-shirt with white shoes, Pitt showed off his new shoulder-length hair style ... movies and would let his kids watch violent films when ...  

They got it all wrong! The Bollywood faces attending the prestigious Cannes Film Festival were majorly lacking on the fashion front. With their disastrous choices of dresses, poor styling and distasteful accessories, actors Mallika Sherawat, Kalki Koechlin ...  

The glamorous Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday, and there's already plenty to gossip about. While Sean Penn's press conference outburst was highlighted by various news media, festival goers couldn't care less about the incident.  

Estelle Lefebure (in a lovely black gown!), Alexandra Maria Lara (a gorgeous beaded white gown), Elodie Bouchez, Melita Toscan Du Plantier (the Lady in Red!), Lady Victoria Hervey and Shermine Shahrivar.  Enjoy the slide show!  

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The poster is making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival. No details for the movie are known at this moment although we do know that that Catherine Zeta-Jones And Byung-Hun Lee will join Bruce Willis and company this time around. Check the poster out ...  

British singer CHERYL COLE looked amazing the “Amour” premiere during the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday in a sweeping red and white Stéphane Rolland Couture gown. This year, the brunette beauty went with the same designer, but with a less revealing ...  

Well, the honeymoon was bound to end eventually. And I kinda suspected that the big disappointment might turn out to be my most anticipated film of the festival: Post tenebras lux,Carlos Reygadas’ follow-up to the sublime Silent Light (which won a Jury Prize here in 2007). Reygadas has never been afraid to go for the grandiose, opening him up to charges of pretension; I found his first two features, Japón and Battle in Heaven, painfully self...  

CANNES, France — When the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was last at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago, he brought with him one of his more crowd-pleasing efforts, “Certified Copy,” a two-hander set in Tuscany, and his first film ...  

Killing Them Softly - directed by Andrew Dominik, who Pitt last worked with on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - is a contemporary tale of an enforcer (Pitt) charged with hunting down the thieves who robbed a mobbed-up poker game.  

Interviews with Hollywood’s top stars can be staid affairs. Reined in by a host of publicists and PRs, very rarely do they let slip anything of great interest. But now Canadian journalists at the Cannes Film Festival have been told they must pay for the ...  

In attendance were some of the film's handsome male stars; Tom Wisdom (Count Paris), Douglas Booth (Romeo), Ed Westwick (Tybalt), and Christian Cooke (Mercutio).  Guests partied beachside and had designer-cocktail menus with concoctions like ...  

Filmaker Anurag Kashyap latest offering ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ has generated a lot of buzz at  Cannes film festival, even before the screening. The film belonging to the crime genre has been selected as Indian entry under the Director’s Fortnight ...  

Rocker Pete Doherty may get more acting roles after the premiere of his debut film, even though it has been widely panned by critics. The ex-Libertines frontman stars in Confession Of A Child Of The Century, an adaptation of French writer Alfred de Musset ...  

But where Allen has turned repetition into a better-than-break-even ... which both recently screened for a week in New York, aren't currently scheduled to show in LA at all. The presence of Huppert in this one suggests an interest in branching out beyond ...  

CANNES, France, May 21 (Xinhua) -- The 12-day Cannes film festival hit the halfway on Monday with worldwide stars walking on the red carpet and diversified films premiered for critics, only that festivities have been complicated by rainy and windy weather ...  

By now a new work by Mr. Hong, the prolific South Korean director, is as much a Cannes ritual as ... Country” this year — in the main competition, and he won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section in 2010 for “Ha Ha Ha.”  

With 150 guests, the event included multiple hostesses—wearing dresses embroidered with Stella Artois’ red and gold logo—to greet guests and hand out popcorn ... men’s and women’s old-fashioned glasses, and black fedoras were available ...  

The stylish Kalki Koechlin made her presence felt at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. The actress was with her husband ... gown didn’t look great on Kalki Koechlin. Also, since she is fair complexioned, a splash of colour would have worked wonders ...  

Jessica Chastain continues to shine during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This evening she wore a ... Bérénice Béjo In Prada – 'Law... Leila Bekhti In Carven – 'Jury Un Certain Regard' Cannes Film Festival Photocall ...  

With the Cannes Film Festival in full swing, and Cinema’s most bright and beautiful turning out in spectacular evening wear for screenings, parties and events, Avenue 32 is shining a spotlight on its own range of luxury gowns from a luminary collection ...  

The talented Scoot NcNairy (Monsters) and Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom) are excellent as the lowlife punks who stick up gangster Ray Liotta's gambling den, forcing mob accountant Richard Jenkins to hire enforcer Brad Pitt to balance the books.  

The Cannes Film Festival is supposed to be the sunny film festival. But Sunday was a complete weather washout for a festival which has already seen strangely spotty weather. Torrential rains and high winds whipped across the famed Croisette doing serious ...  

CANNES – May 22, 2012: Star quality befitting the anniversary of the Cannes International Film Festival: to celebrate the awarding of the 65th Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG are providing a fleet of shuttle vehicles ...  

and Nicolas (Jérémie Renier, Dardenne brothers’ favourite). After having survived a massacre at the village project he was previously working on, Father Nicolas comes to the slums filled with guilt and determined to return his gratitude to ...  

With an Iranian film set in Japan, a Korean film starring French actress Isabelle Huppert, and the "Indian Brigitte Bardot" wheeling and dealing on the Croisette, Cannes this year represents a borderless, globalised world of cinema.  

One day before the big prizes are handed out, Cannes has a serious case of Palme fever. Will the jury go for the Palme of reason ("Amour"), the Palme of passion ("Holy Motors"), or something unexpected?  

Cannes Film Festival used to be all about Hollywood's A-list, but one person who is single handedly trying to change all of that is Kelly Brook. The model has sure been trying her best to get in front of any cameras as possible since arriving at the ...  

Speculation about what film could take home the top Palme d'Or prize raged at Cannes Wednesday, with Leos Carax's crazy, inspired "Holy Motors" seen as a frontrunner. Walter Salles's lovely "On the Road" drew mostly shrugs and scoffs.  

The Chilean director Pablo Larraín's film "No," part of the Directors' Fortnight, is one of the best selections so far at the Cannes Film Festival. "No" revisits the remarkable moment in 1988 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte ...  

You never quite know what the often outrageous French director Leos Carax (Boy Meets Girl, Lovers on the Bridge) is going to do next. But this extraordinary fantasy takes the biscuit. Beautifully shot as it is, and equipped with a virtuoso central performance from Denis Levant which requires him to play a dozen or so characters, the film progresses from one incomprehensible chapter to another until the mind boggles with the effort needed to...  

Cheryl Cole made her first foray onto La Croisette for this year's Cannes Film Festival - with a striking dress whose bright scarlet feathered train melted her into the red carpet. The singer and sometime X Factor presenter joined other guests for the ...  

SIX years ago, Ken Loach won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with ... A change of pace after 2009’s ferocious Route Irish, which tapped into the filmmakers’ anger over the Iraq war, the new film establishes its lighter register from the get-go, as we’re ...  

Six kids, a well-chronicled divorce and one equally publicized engagement later, Brad Pitt is clearly still the victor in his battle against Father Time. The Hollywood heartthrob, 48, walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of ...  

Suman Mukhopadhyay, Anurag Kashyap, Sanjay Suri, Nila Madhab Panda and Onir at Cannes (photo credit: Raj Suri)More Pics While Indian celebs bond at the French Riviera this year, thanks to the gang of directors like Anurag Kashyap, Onir and Nila ...  

More literary adaptation than biopic, the movie uses the fiction alter egos Kerouac created ... Burroughs), and Elisabeth Moss and Amy Adams pump juice into sidelined wives. But Mr. Salles, an intelligent director whose films include “The ...  

Among this year's Cannes Film festival line-up is "Beyond the Walls," a Belgian import that follows a tumultuous love affair between Paulo (Matila Malliarkis) and Ilir (Guillaume Gouix). Paulo is a dedicated pianist who is unsure of himself ...  

#sexism After more than a thousand female filmmakers signed a U.S. petition in support of French feminists who claim that this year's Cannes Film Festival is just a big circle jerk, the Cannes board denied charges of sexism, saying that it completely endorses General Delegate Thierry Fremaux's decision not include a single film directed by a woman among the 22 competing for the coveted Palm d'Or...  

But instead of going to the beach, she hung out inside a telephone booth. British model Kelly Brook at a photo shoot in Cannes. (Splash News) Brook, 32, has been at the Cannes Film Festival promoting her upcoming film co-starring English ...  

What the hell did I just watch? This was my first reaction to Leos Carax's Holy Motors, a movie that is not so much a movie as it is a collection of ideas, visuals and themes all in an effort to present a commentary on the current state of filmmaking… I ...  

The 2012 Cannes International Film Festival is an annual star-studded event held in Cannes, France. In addition to showcasing new films, the fashion choices of its celebs are always on display. Who are the top 8 Cannes fashionistas this year? Eva Longoria ...  

drifting movie. As Kerouac alter ego Sal, Riley is watchable but mannered. And Stewart, like most of the actresses in the film, has little to do except get nailed by Hedlund. There are asses and breasts aplenty from the runaway wild things, not to mention ...  

Me and You is based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, centering on Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old outsider who skips out on a school field trip to live in the basement of his apartment building for a week to get away from those that just don ...  

With On the Road Walter Salles and his cast have definitely crafted a well-made film with strong performances and rich and beautiful cinematography, but the story is so tedious and each scene redundant of the last that it's hard to care one way or another about what is taking place on screen.  

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Moviemaker David Cronenberg and his son Brandon have made Cannes Film Festival history by becoming the first father and son to debut films at the event The revered filmmakers Cosmopolis opens In Competition later this week beg21May12 while his sons A...  

Sometimes it causes floods as well, other times the river dries up… Yet I feel Thailand needs more of these electric-cities; we buy a lot of our electricity ... I met up with Chai Bhatana, a high school friend of mine whom I hadn’t seen ...