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Matthew McConaughey pulls off Cannes double header
May. 26, 2012 12:05 PM ET (AP)
To have one film competing at the Cannes Film Festival is a privilege. To have two, Matthew McConaughey says, is wonderful good fortune _ and the reward for a spell of hard labor in the trenches of...
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Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet
May. 25, 2012 3:53 PM ET (AP)
The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a passionate documentary about the overthrow of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, are being...
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Loach's whiskey expert brings Scotland to Cannes
May. 23, 2012 11:08 AM ET (AP)
Charles MacLean is out of his element in Cannes, a town consumed by cinema and celebrity. His element is Scotch whisky _ "uisge beatha," he says, giving it its Gaelic name. The water of life.
MacLean...
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Haneke, Loach among Cannes highlights thus far
May. 22, 2012 9:32 AM ET (AP)
The first half of the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival has completed a life cycle in films that range from the motivating spark of child birth to the despair of slow death in old age.
The latter came...
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Alain Resnais back in Cannes competition at 89
May. 21, 2012 10:23 AM ET (AP)
The Cannes Film Festival received a dose of theater Monday in the form of French director Alain Resnais' new film.
"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is a love letter to the acting profession that shows a...