Film Festivals

Filmmaker takes center stage in surveillance story

2 days ago

Laura Poitras' skill and boldness as a documentary filmmaker have gained her Oscar and Emmy nominations, Sundance Film Festival honors and a public TV showcase, even if her work fell short of...

'Fashion Police' fetes host Joan Rivers at age 80

9 days ago

Hear her hail Uma Thurmond, sheathed in Versace at the Cannes Film Festival: "This gown is so feminine, so silver - it's the Anderson Cooper of dresses!

Correction: France-Cannes-Only Lovers Left Alive

18 days ago

The film, the last English-language entry competing for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, sees Swinton play Eve, a grungy but erudite vampire - who's married to a forlorn vampire musician,...

Jordan finally front and center in 'Fruitvale'

21 days ago

That changes emphatically with "Fruitvale Station," a Sundance hit that premiered Thursday night at the Cannes Film Festival.

Cinema's colorful wildlife on view at Cannes

23 days ago

As the partying journalist of Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," Toni Servillo was surveying Rome's colorful nightlife, but he might as well have been contemplating the Cannes Film Festival.

`Zulu,' violent portrait of S. Africa, ends Cannes

24 days ago

The film premiered at the close of the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday and is directed by "Largo Winch'"s Jerome Salle, co-starring Orlando Bloom as a free-wheeling white officer, as well as South...

Cannes to close with a nail-biter ending

24 days ago

Steven Spielberg will close out the 66th Cannes Film Festival with a nail-biter of a finale.

Steely Cotillard shines in 'The Immigrant'

24 days ago

The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, was filmed in part on the almost mythical Ellis Island, where millions of immigrants...

Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story

24 days ago

In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000.

Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response

24 days ago

James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality.

Cannes: Dern a leading man again in 'Nebraska'

24 days ago

Let's knock their socks off.'"Though the part, reticent and cantankerous, isn't the typical socks-knocking kind of stuff, Dern's unadorned portrait has been one of the most hailed performances at...

Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'

24 days ago

The director said the pill has "changed the place of women in our times," while talking to reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize

24 days ago

A French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes

24 days ago

A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes

24 days ago

Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival.

Palme d'Or race wide open at Cannes Film Festival

25 days ago

After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or.

Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes

25 days ago

Still, Rasoulof, who managed to make it to the Cannes Film Festival to show his film, says "Manuscripts" shouldn't be construed as his life.

A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes

25 days ago

For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies.

At Cannes' movie palace, talk of TV's rise

25 days ago

The annual Cannes festival on the French Riviera is the grandest platform in the world for the highest ambitions of film, a place where the art form is worshipped with wild passion and adoring...

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics

25 days ago

Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds.

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival

25 days ago

Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes

26 days ago

The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella (actor Toni Servillo).

Glitzy amfAR raises $25 million, goes to space

26 days ago

Thought celebrities were in a generous mood, news that thieves outsmarted 80 security guards and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) -...

West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'

26 days ago

One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

27 days ago

This week's collection includes tornado devastation in Oklahoma, fighting in Syria and a scene from the Cannes Film Festival.---This gallery contains photos published May 16-23, 2013.