Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

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While Shohei Imamura may not be a forgotten figure in the history of Japanese cinema, his docudrama A Man Vanishes (67) only received its U.S. theatrical release last November, while his other ...

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What are we talking about when we talk about Cannes? While the same question applies to other major festivals, it takes on a particular meaning and intensity with this annual event: none of the others ...

Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour ...

An early title card in Pavements, the new biopic-doc hybrid from director Alex Ross Perry, describes the indie-rock group Pavement as “The World’s Most Important & Influential Band”—the first cheeky ...