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It was a bad year for business, a so-so year for celebrities, but a good year for movies at the Cannes Film Festival.
Awards presented Sunday at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, chosen by a jury headed by French Actress Isabelle Huppert:
Charlotte Gainsbourg has won the best-actress honor at the Cannes Film Festival for a movie that shocked audiences with its explicit images of physical abuse and torture.
Austrian director Michael Haneke's somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, where Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier entries earned the acting honors.
A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi won a prize in one of the Cannes Film Festival competitions on Saturday.
Quentin Tarantino had so much fun competing at the Cannes Film Festival two years ago that when he got home, he staged his own mini-Cannes.
Billed at the outset as a showdown between big-name auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee and Lars von Trier, the Cannes Film Festival is nearing its end with lesser-known filmmakers among the favorites to win the Palme d'Or, the event's top prize.
Isabel Coixet's new film, "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," has three stars — actors Rinko Kikuchi and Sergi Lopez, and the Japanese city itself, a place the Spanish filmmaker says she loves.
Filmmaker Terry Gilliam says a "Don Quixote" fantasy he had to abandon because of a series of mishaps is back on.
Heath Ledger's zeal roused his co-stars to up their game in his final film, and his death inspired them — and three A-list friends who completed his role — to carry on with a story the late actor had wanted to see, director Terry Gilliam said Friday.
Bill Clinton's saxophone and Robert Pattinson's lips have helped a star-studded charity event raise money to fight AIDS.
Sam Raimi has gone from superheroes back to the supernatural.
Brangelina aside, no one is getting bigger star treatment at the Cannes Film Festival than Eric Cantona.
Two past winners of the top Cannes Film Festival prize have picked up a U.S. distributor for their latest movies.
Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt have spun some revisionist history on how World War II ended.
"Bright Star" gives actor Ben Whishaw a chance to shine.
Robert Pattinson put some bite into the celebrity sightings at the Cannes Film Festival.
Expect more male characters from Pedro Almodovar, whose credits include such female-centered films as "All About My Mother," "Volver" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
Amid the economic gloom, Asian movies are lighting up the Cannes Film Festival.
Director Rob Marshall's new movie musical "Nine" offers a potent combination of Italian style, costumes to die for and six Academy Award-winning performers.
Penelope Cruz has had to miss an event at the Cannes Film Festival after suffering food poisoning.
The Cannes Film Festival's latest contenders are a cinematic odd couple — British director Ken Loach and French soccer legend Eric Cantona, who stars in Loach's festival entry "Looking for Eric."
Jim Carrey has multiple personalities in his next movie.
Don't ask Lars von Trier why he made "Antichrist," the grim and gory tale of a trip to the woods that goes badly wrong, and a film that has left audiences at Cannes shaken, stirred — and sharply divided.
Vindictive movie studio threatens to remake "Coyote Ugly"Rumor has it that sequel is being threatened and in the works, a major source states that boring the public with remakes of foreign films last year which were intentionally not promoted in the U.S.
Cannes Best Director is Filipino for 'Kinatay' (Butchered)Filipino filmmaker Brillante 'Dante' Mendoza was proclaimed best director in this year's Cannes Film Festival in France for his work Kinatay (Butchered), besting the likes of acclaimed directors Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion and Quentin Tarantino...
Haneke's 'The White Ribbon' wins Cannes top prize Austrian director Michael Haneke's somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, where Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier entries earned the acting honors.
Heath Ledger's last film premieres at Cannes (video)Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, has premiered in Cannes.
Cannes: Penelope Cruz rises to the occasion for Spanish director Pedro AlmodóvarIt's curious to reflect that the great Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, once the enfant terrible of European cinema, turns 60 this year. In his maturity, he remains a distinctive stylist and a dazzling film-maker with technique to burn.
Director Defiant After "Antichrist" Jeered Danish director Lars von Trier made no excuses on Monday for his controversial film "Antichrist", which shocked audiences at the Cannes film festival for its graphic sex and violence.
British zombie movie that cost just £45 to make is set to become surprise hit at CannesIt is one of the most glamorous events on the film calendar, with a small fortune spent on parties, champagne and red carpet gowns. But a British zombie movie, which cost just £45 to make, could be a surprise success story amongst the decadence of the Cannes Film Festival.
Cannes Hearts Ebert - indieWIRECannes Film Festival conference center pavillion re-named "The Roger Ebert Conference Center"
Scorsese: my friendship with Michael PowellHe fell in love with The Red Shoes aged nine - now Martin Scorsese is bringing a glorious new print to Cannes. He talks about his debt to its director
Film as an act of loveLes quatre cents coups – commonly known in English as The 400 Blows – is a film all about the heart: that of its chief character, Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud), who is a teenager unloved by his parents and seen as a troublemaker by his schoolteachers, but long …
The Story of a Sign (Revisited)Watch this 4-minute short film that won the Cannes 2008 online short film competition. Beautiful! With a stroke of the pen, a stranger transforms the afternoon for another man in this short film by Alonso Alvarez.
HBO 'Voyeur' Collaborator Calls Cannes Prizes UnfairIf you're the agency who hires an agency to share expertise in developing a campaign, who gets the credit when the campaign snatches top honors at Cannes.
Like Good Advertising, Winning Design Cuts Through the ClutterTurner Duckworth's brand-identity work for Coca-Cola caputured the inaugural design Lions at Cannes.
Cannes - Agnès Poirier: The new revolutionIn 1987, France won the Palme d'Or with Under the Sun of Satan by Maurice Pialat, the story of a possessed priest set in 1926 rural France. Twenty-one years later, Laurent Cantet has just repeated the feat with his film Entre les Murs (called The Class in English).
Cannes of worms: The ugly truth about the world's most famous film festivalAn insider's look at what really happens at Cannes each year. From the movies, moguls and parties to the drugs.
Spike Lee Spears Clint Clinker, Cans Coens at Cannes"Clint Eastwood made two films about Iwo Jima that ran for more than four hours total, and there was not one Negro actor on the screen."
Spike Lee: Clint Eastwood omitted black troops in both WWII filmsSpike Lee is slamming Clint Eastwood over his two recent Iwo Jima movies, saying the filmmaker overlooked the role of black soldiers during World War II.
Tyson Tells All in Documentary, Debuts at CannesMike Tyson considers it a miracle that he lived to tell his tale. And he's telling it — in graphic detail — in a new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.
Trinian's girls to return in 2009A further movie in the rejuvenated St Trinian's franchise will be released in 2009, it has been announced in Cannes. No cast has been announced yet, but directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson will again take the helm.
Hot Russian biz conquers box office: 'Genghis Khan' reflects confidence in local filmsGenghis Khan has a new lease on life as a national role model in Russia, where the film industry is in a conquering mood and its long-running boom continues, like the infamous Mongol warrior, to scale new heights.
Cannes Film Festival kicks off: Stars get cheery welcome from fans, mediaSean Penn received the first big artistic cheer of the 61st Cannes Film Festival after he was introduced on the steps of the Palais Wednesday night.
Eastwood film tops Cannes line-upMovie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest directorial outing, called Changeling, at the Cannes International Film Festival next month. The 1920s thriller, about a woman whose son is kidnapped, stars Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Amy Ryan.
Indiana Jones 'opening in Cannes'New Indiana Jones movie The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, one of its stars John Hurt has said.
Madonna + Sharon Stone + Harvey WeinsteinTKO for AIDS awareness/relief. Check it out!
Sean Penn to Head 61st Festival de Cannes JurySean Penn will head the jury at the 61st annual Festival de Cannes set to take place from May 14-25, organizers announced Thursday.
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