CANNES - Something's ailing Benicio Del Toro's title character in "Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)," but let's lay that to one side for now. More pressingly, what is up with Arnaud Desplechin? Th...
(Welcome to Cannes Check, your annual guide through the 20 films in Competition at this month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 15. Taking on a different selection every day, we'll be examining what they'...
(Welcome to Cannes Check, your annual guide through the 20 films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 15. Taking on a different selection every day, we'll be examining what they'...
In the blessed six months between the Venice Film Festival and the Academy Awards ceremony -- the Oscar off-season, if you will -- the Cannes Film Festival is the chief hub of speculation and spitballing in the presti...
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim
Iranian auteur Farhadi's last two features, "About Elly" and "A Separation," premiered modestly at the Berlinale. But follo...
When the hunt for a director for "Star Wars: Episode VII" first began, J.J. Abrams was at the top of many fans' wish lists.
However, with his hands currently full with the new "Star Trek" franch...
CANNES - Eric Packer, the disaffected, boy-billionaire anti-hero of “Cosmopolis,” has an asymmetrical prostate. We’re told this no fewer than three times in David Cronenberg’s highly garrulous ...
Andrew Dominik's last film was "The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford," so even if all we knew is that this movie, based on the novel "Cogan's Trade," is his reunion with sta...
The director: Alain Resnais (French, 89 years old)
The talent: No latter-day Resnais film comes without an ensemble of familiar French faces, with a number of regulars now forming the director's own repertory company...
With today's announcement of the Directors' Fortnight selections, this year's Cannes lineup is effectively complete -- bar some late additions that festival director Thierry Frémaux has told us to expect. As it...
