Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023

Greta Gerwig, actor, writer and film director, notably for the blockbuster "Barbie," will preside over the jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, the first American female director to be named jury president, the festival announced Thursday.

At 40, Gerwig is also the youngest...

Saturday, May. 27, 2023

Justine Triet's "Anatomy of a Fall" won the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival's prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial.

"Anatomy of a Fall," which stars...

Friday, May. 26, 2023

To the Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, "fairy tale" is an often misunderstood concept. For many, it suggests kings and queens, a light kind of fantasy.

But Rohrwacher is devoted to — "obsessed with" she says — the tradition of Italian fairy and folk tales, which tend to feature...

Thursday, May. 25, 2023

Molly Manning Walker was still bleary-eyed from six months in the editing suite rushing to finish her first feature film when she arrived at the Cannes Film Festival.

"It's nice to have a deadline," Walker, 29, said while sipping an espresso. "I work best with chaos."

Six weeks...

Tuesday, May. 23, 2023

When Wes Anderson comes down from Paris for the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France, he and his actors don't stay in one of Cannes' luxury hotels but more than an hour down the coast and well outside the frenzy of the festival.

"When we arrived here yesterday, we arrived at a calm...

Tuesday, May. 23, 2023

In Todd Haynes' tonally shape-shifting "May December," the first announcement of the movie's playful intentions comes with a theatrical zoom in, a few lushly melodramatic piano notes and the frightful announcement that there no more hot dogs in the fridge.

That moment — which Haynes says...

Sunday, May. 21, 2023

When the lights came up after a screening on the Walt Disney lot of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," Steven Spielberg was incredulous.

"Damn!" he said. "I thought I was the only one who knew how to make one of these!"

"Dial of Destiny," which premiered Thursday at the...

Sunday, May. 21, 2023

It was well into the process of making "Killers of the Flower Moon" that Martin Scorsese realized it wasn't a detective story.

Scorsese, actor Leonardo DiCaprio and screenwriter Eric Roth had many potential avenues in adapting David Grann's expansive nonfiction history, "Killers of the...

Sunday, May. 21, 2023

Martin Scorsese unveiled "Killers of the Flower Moon" at Cannes on Saturday, debuting a sweeping American epic about greed and exploitation on the bloody plains of an Osage Nation reservation in 1920s Oklahoma.

Scorsese's latest — starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De...

Saturday, May. 20, 2023

Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest," a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through "a 21st century lens," has delivered the Cannes Film Festival's first critical sensation by approaching the Holocaust from an unlikely perspective.

"The Zone of Interest," which premiered to rave reviews...

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