Published on May,21 2012 - by Reuters
CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival is buzzing this year with a string of hit movies in the official lineup, a procession of stars on the red carpet and plenty of eagerly awaited titles still to come ...
Published on May,21 2012 - by Variety
If ever there was a project for a director of Alain Resnais' perpetually inventive spirit to wrap up his career, this is it. The trouble with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!" is that the still-frisky 89-year-old auteur has ...
Published on May,21 2012 - by Variety
The very title of Abbas Kiarostami's Tokyo-set character waltz "Like Someone in Love" -- named for the jazz standard Ella Fitzgerald croons on the soundtrack -- promises something as woozily romantic as "Certified Copy ...
Published on May,20 2012 - by Reuters
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Danish director Thomas Vinterberg burst on to the scene in Cannes in 1998 with the acclaimed "Festen", and critics say he is close to his best again this year with "The Hunt", a shocking take ...
Published on May,19 2012 - by Forbes
...and elsewhere) is simply a way of validating the achievement, and keeping score. Two inspirational examples of auteurs immediately come to mind, individuals who perhaps might be thought of as leading an entrepreneurial l...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
Everything or nothing can be read into Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Mekong Hotel," a docu-fiction that mounts scene after starkly composed scene of two people perched over railings overlooking the placid Mekong River ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
Alain Attal's Les Productions du Tresor and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's Stone Angels are teaming on "Little Lion," the ambitious English-language debut of Cannes favorite Radu Mihaileanu ("The Source," "The Concert"). Oi Oi ...
Published on May,17 2012 - by Variety
...o-basics response to the failure of "The Green Hornet," "The We and the I" could've been lensed by the amateur auteurs of his "Be Kind Rewind." Indeed, an early and ominously unfunny joke has a racist old woman (Helen De...
Published on May,16 2012 - by Reuters
CANNES, France (Reuters) - The absence of female directors from the 22-strong competition in Cannes this year is a "great pity", but reflects a global problem rather than sexism specific to the world's biggest film ...
Published on May,15 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
...s year, there are five U.S. contestants in the official race, which is usually dominated by European and world auteurs. One contender for the Palme d’Or is Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini. Pi...