the Cannes Film Festival

A quarter of a century after its release, Quentin Tarantino’s non-linear crime mash-up remains as fresh as ever. “Royale with cheese,” anyone?

Pedro Almodóvar is a master of cinema who has found international acclaim with 21 films he’s shot in his native Spain. Now he’s setting his sights on making his first film in North America. Almodóvar said the film is set in Texas and would be mostly in English, with some bilingual scenes shot in Mexico. The director said he has...

Taika Waititi’s Nazi Germany-set satire “Jojo Rabbit” won the People’s Choice award Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, a prize that has historically been one of the most ironclad predicators of Academy Awards chances. Because so many of the top fall movies play in Toronto, the festival’s audience award has often been almost prophetic. For more than a decade,...

Antonio Banderas says his emotional state from having a heart attack a few years ago influenced his award-winning performance in the Pedro Almodóvar film, “Pain and Glory.” Banderas won the best actor trophy earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. In an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Banderas told The Associated Press that drawing on personal experience...

Elle Fanning, the youngest juror ever at the Cannes Film Festival, said she’s been transformed by her experience at the French festival. The 21-year-old actresses’ jury service came to an end Saturday with the Cannes closing ceremony. She wanted the festival to keep going. “I didn’t know how I would come out of this experience. I do feel like I...

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s raucous social satire “Parasite,” about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family, won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or, on Saturday. The win for “Parasite” marks the first Korean film to ever win the Palme. In the festival’s closing ceremony, jury president Alejandro Inarritu said the choice...

Richard Madden donned a James Bond-esque white tuxedo at the Cannes Film Festival, but the actor shrugged off any 007 rumors.

Elton John and his biopic “Rocketman” has landed at the Cannes Film Festival where star Taron Egerton was moved to tears after the premiere.

Julianne Moore says that for the movie industry to reach gender parity, it’s necessary to implement quotas.

Quentin Tarantino is going back to Cannes, after all. The director’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was announced as a late addition to the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. It will premiere in competition at the upcoming French festival, adding one of the summer’s starriest, most anticipated films to the Cannes’ red carpet. When Cannes’ artistic director Thierry Fremaux...

Here’s what to know for Monday, April 30.

Agnes Varda, the French New Wave pioneer who for decades beguiled, challenged and charmed moviegoers in films that inspired generations of filmmakers, has died. She was 90. Varda’s production company, Cine-Tamaris, said Varda died early morning Friday at her home in Paris from cancer.

Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the ’60s romance “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” and who worked with some of biggest singers of the 20th century, has died at age 86. Legrand last performed on stage just last month, and was still composing and practicing piano an...

Asia Argento, the Italian actress and director who accused disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, delivered a blistering speech at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival Saturday, vowing that justice will be served for all sexual predators.

Friends of Whitney Houston allege the singer was molested as a child by her cousin Dee Dee Warwick in a documentary that premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Party on dudes: Almost three decades later, “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” is getting a new sequel. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter will reprise their roles as Ted “Theodore” Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq. in a third “Bill & Ted” adventure and the first in 27 years. The project was announced Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival, with MGM’s...

Here’s what to know for Wednesday, May 9.

The head of the Cannes Film Festival has held an unscheduled press conference to address the many issues roiling this year’s festival, from Cannes’ feud with Netflix to the #MeToo movement to the banning of selfies on the red carpet. Thierry Fremaux said Monday that the festival would improve the male-to-female ratios of its selection committees, name more women as...

Here’s what to know for Friday, April 13.

“Solo: A Star Wars Story” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, bringing a galaxy far away to the world’s most prestigious film festival.

Excitement for “The Last Jedi,” which upon arrival prompted deep-dive analysis and sent everyone scurrying to Twitter to give their two cents, couldn’t help but be tempered by the bitter reality that the film marks Carrie Fisher’s final appearance in the franchise (flashbacks or any potential CGI trickery going forward notwithstanding).

Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy-face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favorite through his memorable turns in “Paris, Texas,” ”Repo Man” and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.

French actress Jeanne Moreau, a smoky-voiced femme fatale who starred in Francois Truffaut’s love triangle film “Jules and Jim” and whose award-winning, seven-decade career included work with some of the world’s most acclaimed directors, has died. She was 89. The French president’s office announced her death in a statement Monday without providing a cause. An assistant to her agent confirmed...

A new animated Snow White film is drawing fire as critics say it promotes body shaming....
Plus-size model and body image activist Tess Holliday drew attention to an ad for the upcoming English-language Korean animated film “Red Shoes & the Seven Dwarfs,” which shows a tall and slim Snow White standing next to a shorter and fuller-figured version of the character....

The Cannes Film Festival awarded its coveted Palme d’Or award to Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square” on Sunday, while Sofia Coppola became only the second woman to win the best director award....
“Oh my god! OK,” the Swedish filmmaker exclaimed after he bounded onto the stage to collect the prestigious Palme....
Coppola won best director for “The Beguiled,” her remake of Don Siegel’s...

The Cannes Film Festival said it will hold a moment of silence Tuesday for the victims of the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. The festival invited all festivalgoers to “show their solidarity with the victims, their families and the British people” with a minute of silence at 3 p.m. local time. In a statement, Cannes called...

Days before the release of his latest film, “Alien: Covenant,” director Ridley Scott sank his hands and feet into cement in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday.

Acclaimed independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, of “Coffee and Cigarettes” fame, has premiered the trailer for his new film “Gimme Danger” documenting the rise of iconic punk band The Stooges.

Jacques Audiard’s immigrant drama “Dheepan” has won the Palme d’Or, the top honor of the Cannes Film Festival.