Cannes Film Festival
"Beauty is like war," says Gary Oldman, in character, in Paolo Sorrentino's "Parthenope." "It opens doors."
"Parthenope," in which Oldman plays the author John Cheever, premiered Tuesday in Cannes. It's just one of the films at this year's festival to consider beauty: its disruptive power...
Donald Trump's reelection campaign called "The Apprentice," a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, "pure fiction" and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. But director Ali Abbasi is offering to privately screen the film for Trump.
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Before a journalist has even lobbed a question, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos spit out a string of overlapping answers.
"We have a great relationship," begins Lanthimos. '"We just love working together," adds Stone. "It was cool to do a modern-day piece." "Going back to some of the...
A month before Kevin Costner puts the first installment of his multi-chapter Western "Horizon: An American Saga" into theaters, the actor-director came to the Cannes Film Festival to unveil his self-financed passion project.
"Two of my boys are out fishing right now," Costner said with a...
On paper, Jacques Audiard's buzzed-about Cannes Film Festival entry "Emilia Perez" would not seem anything like a good idea for a movie.
The film, which premiered Saturday in Cannes, is probably the first movie that can sincerely be compared to both "Sicario" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" — and...
Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola's idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic "Megalopolis," one that particularly resonates with the director is: "When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we're free."
"That's me making this film,"...
After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization.
"If I'm going to make a film about death," Schrader told himself, "I'd better hurry up."
The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of American...
Much attention has been paid to the $120 million of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic "Megalopolis," but the director himself isn't much concerned.
"I don't care. I never cared," Coppola said of money, speaking to reporters at the Cannes Film...
Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus "Megalopolis" at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a wildly ambitious passion project the 85-year-old director has been pondering for decades.
Reviews ranged from "a folly of gargantuan proportions" to "the craziest thing...
Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything, one that's arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil. Sound familiar?
On Thursday, Coppola's self-financed opus "Megalopolis" will make its much-awaited premiere....