Iran Slams Cannes for Lars Von Trier Ban Over Hitler Comments
PARIS – Iran's government has protested to the Cannes Film Festival over its decision to ban director Lars von Trier for saying he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.
PARIS – Iran's government has protested to the Cannes Film Festival over its decision to ban director Lars von Trier for saying he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.
PARIS – Federico Fellini may just have a successor. The world's most famous fashion designer, Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld, has proven he has what it takes to fill the late, great Italian designer's shoes, with an artsy short movie that brims with Fellini-esque pathos.
CANNES, France – The Cannes Film Festival is like Rick's Cafe Americain, Humphrey Bogart's nightclub in "Casablanca" about which one character proclaims, "Everybody comes to Rick's."
PARIS – Jude Law and Uma Thurman are among the eight-member jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival.
PARIS – Pedro Almodovar's story of a plastic surgeon bent on exacting vigilante justice and Terrence Malick's period piece about three Midwestern brothers, starring Brad Pitt, are among 19 movies vying for the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
CANNES, France — Director Laurent Cantent's "The Class" captured top honors yesterday as the 2008 Cannes Film Festival came to a conclusion.
Cantent's work won the prized Golden Palm award, becoming the first French film to capture the honor since 1987's "Under Satan's Sun."
CANNES, France - Sean Penn will head the awards jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year, organizers announced Thursday.
The Oscar-winning actor and acclaimed director of "Into The Wild," who recently announced his separation from wife Robin Wright Penn, will be sitting on the distinguished jury during the festival's season in May.
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