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Seen and heard in Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENTS FOR ACTRESS AS DAD WATCHES LOVE SCENES: Talk ...
'Blue is the Warmest Color' is Cannes' Palme d'Or
The tender, sensual lesbian romance "Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele" won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top ...
'Zulu,' violent portrait of S. Africa, ends Cannes
Academy award-winner Forest Whitaker turns in a solid performance as a cop searching for the murderer of a white teenager in the movie "Zulu," a ...
Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings ...
Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its ...
Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'
Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic" The director made ...
Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, ...
A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes
Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival. The festival, he says, is "for ...
Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival
After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme ...
A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes
For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from ...
Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes
"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript — a ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. 'GRIGRIS' ENTRY IN CANNES BRINGS PRIDE TO AFRICAN NATION OF CHAD ...
Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'
Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New ...
Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska'
For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the ...
At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise
The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form ...
JC Chandor gains a Cannes hit with 'All Is Lost'
J.C. Chandor may just have saved someone's life during an interview in Cannes. The director who put Robert Redford in a struggle for survival as a ...
Glitzy amfAR raises $25 million, goes to space
With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala ...
Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
Ladies? Don't make him laugh. Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary ...
West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'
One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the ...
Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival
Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 ...
Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming ...
Payne back on the road with 'Nebraska' at Cannes
Shooting the Midwest in monochrome came naturally for Alexander Payne in his father-son road trip "Nebraska." Payne premiered his black-and-white ...
Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian ...
Cannes: Scott Thomas' glorious dip into darkness
To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — ...
Robert Redford es un náufrago en Cannes
Robert Redford hace valer las acciones más que las palabras en el drama de un naufragio "All is Lost". No tiene otra opción. La historia del hombre ...