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 ...
WikiLeaks leaks 'We Steal Secrets' doc transcript
WikiLeaks characterizes the new documentary, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," as biased and accuses its director, Alex Gibney of "errors ...
Toback, Baldwin eye Cannes movie-making underbelly
A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of ...
'The Office': shutting down on NBC after 8 years
As "The Office" airs its series finale after eight years on NBC, the time feels right to salute the show that spawned it. I'm talking, of course, ...
Survivor of 1987 Mich. plane crash breaks silence
Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life — one that she doesn't otherwise remember.
Victims of '88 DUI bus crash in Ky. remembered
Quinton Higgins lost his best friend when the church bus he was riding in 25 years ago was turned into a fireball by a drunken driver on a Kentucky ...
JFK retrospective, Latino history on PBS schedule
PBS' fall schedule will examine President John F. Kennedy's life and his death 50 years ago through a modern lens, part of the network's increased ...
Rule lets Oscar voters watch DVDs for some votes
Oscar voters will no longer be required to see certain nominated films in a theater to cast their ballots. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
New documentary examines the lives of porn stars
Ever wonder what makes young, pretty, "good" girls pursue careers in porn? So did Deborah Anderson, that's why she made a documentary and fine-art ...
American charged, ex-general held in Venezuela
An American filmmaker was formally charged late Saturday by Venezuelan officials who accuse him of paying right-wing groups to foment postelection ...
'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' take top Tribeca honors
The Laos adventure "The Rocket" and the Afghanistan War documentary "The Kill Team" have taken top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival. In an awards ...
"Senna" director to make Amy Winehouse documentary
The director of award-winning film "Senna" is making a documentary about the late soul singer Amy Winehouse. Focus Features International says the ...
Thailand bans film about Thai-Cambodian border row
Thailand's film censors have banned a documentary about the country's long-running border dispute with neighboring Cambodia as a threat to national ...
Taliban threat could skew Pakistan election result
Moderate politicians from some of Pakistan's most violent areas are risking the threat of Taliban attack to run in upcoming nationwide elections, but ...
Nigeria censors documentary in growing crackdown
The documentary on a massive strike that paralyzed life in Nigeria features newspaper headlines, television news footage and other information widely ...
Tribeca fest dedicated to Boston on opening night
The Tribeca Film Festival opened in a spirit of brotherly love — both on the screen, and in thoughts for the people for Boston. Richard Belzer began ...
London School of Economics denounces BBC tactics
One of Britain's leading academic institutions, the London School of Economics, is accusing the BBC of putting students at risk by using them as cover ...
New film boosts immigration fight
The immigration overhaul pending before Congress is picking up more high-profile support as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, ...
Museum exhibitions come to movie theaters
From the people who brought live Metropolitan Opera performances to a movie theater near you comes the next big-screen cultural attraction: museum art ...
Acclaimed documentary maker Les Blank dies at 77
Les Blank, an acclaimed documentary maker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating ...
HBO is making Ephron documentary with her son
Nora Ephron will be the subject of an HBO documentary being made by her one of her sons, journalist Jacob Bernstein. The network said Friday that the ...
Grandfather's hidden photos inspire Holocaust film
Matthew Nash's grandfather only mentioned the photographs to him once. Twenty-five-years later, they are the subject of a new documentary on the ...
Pivot, network for millennials, tries to change TV
Pivot is the name of a TV channel aimed at 15-to-34-year-olds who want to change the world. In the process, they could help Pivot change the ...
Correction: Film-An Unreal Dream story
In a March 15 story about the documentary "An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story," The Associated Press made two errors when reporting that John ...
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