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Cannes' female-free directors line-up criticized
At this year's Cannes Film Festival, there are directors in their 30s and their 80s, directors from Europe and North America, directors from Asia and ...
Woodstock wake held for The Band's Levon Helm
There was a reunion, of sorts, at Woodstock on Thursday. Musicians, friends and fans gathered in the board-and-batten barn where Levon Helm staged his ...
Scorsese says all his future movies will be 3-D
Martin Scorsese has become so enamored with 3-D filmmaking that he expects to use the technology in all his future projects. The Academy Award-winning ...
Cybill Shepherd's back, and on the 'List'
For Cybill Shepherd, her role on "The Client List" is all about happy endings. After a career as a teen model in the late '60s, she made her ...
Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dies at 71
With songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," ''The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek," The Band fused rock, blues, folk and gospel to create ...
Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71
Much of the Band's innovative sound was born in the "Big Pink." It was a house in idyllic Woodstock, N.Y., rented for $125 a week and nicknamed for ...
Paramount to add 500 films to YouTube rentals
YouTube and Paramount Pictures have reached a deal to make nearly 500 films available to rent online, even while their parent companies continue to ...
Deneuve, icon of French cinema, honored in NY
Of her more than 100 films, only seven have been in English. So Catherine Deneuve said she was surprised to win an American film award. But nobody ...
Harvey Weinstein: French film's golden age is now
Harvey Weinstein says "The Artist" is just the beginning. "France is about to have a golden age of cinema," said the Hollywood titan, who produced the ...
Few inspired moments during predictable Oscars
Nostalgia ruled at the Oscars, with the classic film homages "The Artist" and "Hugo" dominating with five awards each, Meryl Streep winning her first ...
'The Artist' earns best-picture, lead-actor Oscars
"The Artist" won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since ...
Plummer, Spencer win supporting-acting Oscars
Christopher Plummer became the oldest acting winner ever at Sunday's Academy Awards for his supporting performance in "Beginners," while veteran bit ...
Oscar stars arrive, with one dressed like statue
Best actor nominees George Clooney and Jean Dujardin hit the Academy Award red carpet Sunday night to the delight of fans in the bleachers outside the ...
Oscar stars arrive, with one dressed like statute
Best actor nominees George Clooney and Jean Dujardin hit the Academy Award red carpet Sunday night to the delight of fans in the bleachers outside the ...
Crystal to the rescue for 84th Academy Awards show
The Oscar ceremony has much to prove Sunday, including whether a blockbuster-free field can draw a TV audience and if Billy Crystal's host routine ...
Women in Film celebrates female Oscar nominees
Gwyneth Paltrow, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Allison Janney celebrated their Oscar-nominated sisters at Women in Film's fifth annual pre-Oscar ...
Oscar gold fails to translate to cash this time
It's a common complaint among movie fans — that the Academy Awards honors films no one has seen. Not quite right, but closer to the mark this year ...
Nostalgic Oscars party like it's the 1920s again
It's only the 84th year of the Academy Awards, yet the nostalgia factor feels as though Hollywood is celebrating a centennial of some sort.
Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorsese's 'Hugo'
An Academy Award-nominated movie is casting a bright spotlight on an unusual machine at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The science museum's ...
Winfrey joins Kimmel's post-Oscar extravaganza
Oprah Winfrey is the latest celebrity to join Jimmy Kimmel's seventh post-Oscar special. ABC made the announcement Thursday. Winfrey is making a rare ...
'The Artist' dog honored at Golden Collar Awards
Even dog actors can get awards in Tinseltown, and six pooches collected prizes at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards. The ceremony Monday at the Hyatt ...
'The Artist' named best picture at UK film awards
Silent movie "The Artist" had a night to shout about Sunday, winning seven prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards.
Clooney, Pitt, Streep due at British film awards
Spies were taking on silent stars in London Sunday, as espionage thriller "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and mute movie "The Artist" faced off at the ...
Clooney, Pitt, other pals gather for Oscar lunch
George Clooney says the best thing about Academy Awards nominations is not necessarily the prizes. It's hanging with old and new friends. At the ...