The world’s oldest film festival opens Wednesday with its most mouth-watering line-up in decades, but only one female director among the 21 vying for the top prize. Turning 75 this year, the venerable festival boasts…
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TV makes film a ‘vintage genre’ says greying Travolta at Cannes
Television is making cinema a “vintage genre”, John Travolta said Wednesday at the Cannes film festival, lamenting that films were “not as sought after” as before. Travolta, 64, was in Cannes for the premiere of…
Cannes film festival vows parity push for women
The Cannes film festival signed a charter Monday vowing to push for parity between men and women by 2020. The world’s top festival also promised to be more transparent in its selection process after facing…
Leave the movie at the bedroom door say Cannes couples
Hepburn and Tracey, Bogart and Bacall, Joel Coen and Frances McDormand: movie magic often has real-life love stories behind it, but star couples at Cannes say you must tread carefully when mixing work and romance….
Films in the running for the top prize at Cannes
From an African-American detective infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan to Kurdish female fighters battling jihadists, here are the movies that will compete for the top Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes film festival which starts…
Jury row brews as Cannes screens Netflix film
The first of two Netflix movies that have jurors at the Cannes festival at loggerheads gets its premiere on Friday. “Okja”, a $50-million creature feature about a young country girl who tries to save a…
Cannes set to unveil movies for 70th birthday fest
The Cannes Festival was due Thursday to unveil which films have made the cut for its 70th birthday edition, where the silver screen’s finest will be vying for glory next month. Organisers of the world’s…
British director Ken Loach wins Cannes top prize Palme d’Or
British director Ken Loach took the Palme d’Or top prize at the Cannes film festival Sunday for the second time in a decade for his moving drama “I, Daniel Blake” about the shame of poverty…
Cannibalism and a red carpet protest: the best of Cannes 2016
It was one of the least suspenseful contests in the history of Cannes – and also the most emotional in years. Fittingly for an edition marked by androgyny and fluid sexuality, one of Cannes’ most highly coveted…
Kristen Stewart defends booed Cannes contender
“Twilight” star Kristen Stewart, whose supernatural new movie “Personal Shopper” drew boos at Cannes, defended the picture Tuesday as a “terrifying” look at an identity crisis. French director Olivier Assayas’ high-concept thriller stars Stewart in…