Cannes Film Festival

Cannes: Directing 101 with James Franco

Cannes: The actor-director-artist tells Salon what he learned from Robert Altman, Sam Raimi and Harmony Korine

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:01 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Film Festivals, Cannes

Justin Timberlake: I’m a mediocre folk singer!

The pop-star-turned-actor and "Gatsby" co-star discuss their folk-singing couple in the new Coen brothers film

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:45 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Cannes Film Festival

First look: The Coens’ marvelous folk-music odyssey

Cannes: Oscar Isaac's breakout performance drives the Coens' arch, magical portrait of pre-Dylan Greenwich Village

Andrew O'Hehir Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Film Festivals

“Jodorowsky’s Dune”: The sci-fi classic that never was

Cannes: A rousing new documentary revisits the unbelievable story of the most influential movie never made

Andrew O'Hehir Sunday, May 19, 2013 1:30 PM UTC 39
Entertainment Movies, Documentaries

First look: A Chinese art-house director goes for blood

Cannes: Art-house hero Jia Zhangke takes on his nation's corruption in the explosive allegory "A Touch of Sin"

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:45 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Film Festivals

First look: An Iranian director takes on Western morality

Cannes: Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi leaves Iran to make "The Past," a heartbreaking tale of modern marriage

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:25 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Cannes Film Festival

First look: Sofia Coppola’s chilly, brilliant “Bling Ring”

Cannes is abuzz over Paris Hilton's real-life shoe collection -- and the nihilistic teen girls who stole it

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, May 17, 2013 2:40 PM UTC 21
Entertainment Cannes, Cannes Film Festival

Cannes: The 10 hottest movies

From Sofia Coppola's "Bling Ring" to Ryan Gosling's latest, these movies will heat up a chilly South of France SLIDE SHOW

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:28 PM UTC
Entertainment slideshow, Movies

“Post Tenebras Lux”: A perverse, dreamlike masterpiece

Booed at Cannes and ignored in New York, Carlos Reygadas' disturbing, erotic new film blends Lynch and Kubrick

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:15 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Film Festivals

Cannes Film Festival’s 2013 lineup announced

The list of films includes entries from such festival favorites as Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh and the Coens

Thomas Adamson, Associated Press Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 1:37 PM UTC
Entertainment Associated Press

Steven Spielberg to head Cannes jury this year

The fim festival has been trying to snag the director for years

Associated Press and Prachi Gupta Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 4:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Steven Spielberg

“Beasts of the Southern Wild”: A spectacular bayou folk tale

Benh Zeitlin's gorgeous, crackpot fable of post-Katrina Louisiana is the year's must-see indie film

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Jun 29, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

American influx at Cannes

American filmmakers dominate this year's line-up at France's annual glitzy celebration of cinema

Jake Coyle, Associated Press Tuesday, May 15, 2012 3:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Cannes Film Festival, Movies

“The Kid With a Bike”: A heart-rending fable of good and evil

Belgium's Dardenne brothers turn "Bicycle Thieves" upside down in the wrenching fairy tale "Kid With a Bike"

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Mar 15, 2012 5:53 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks: Movies, Movies

“CSI,” if written by Chekhov

"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" is a cop movie and a road movie -- but mostly it's gorgeous cinema

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012 7:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Our Picks: Movies

“Sleeping Beauty”: A young woman’s creepy sexual odyssey

Emily Browning bares all in Australian director Julia Leigh's disturbing fable of a world without consequences

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Dec 2, 2011 6:30 PM UTC 37
Entertainment Movies, Our Picks

Interview: Steve McQueen talks naked bodies and “Shame”

The British artist-turned-filmmaker on his NC-17 drama starring Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted New Yorker

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 1:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Our Picks, Interviews

“My Joy”: Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland

Avoid cops, hookers and horny Gypsies! Country drive turns death trap in a dark fable of Russian history

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 30, 2011 10:01 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Movies, Quick Takes

Pick of the week: “Take Shelter,” a potent fable of marriage and madness

Pick of the week: The gripping "Take Shelter" channels Malick, Kubrick and the Coen brothers

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 30, 2011 12:01 AM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Movies, Take Shelter

The “Drive” backlash: Too violent, too arty or both?

The Ryan Gosling thriller has great reviews but dreadful word of mouth. Salon writers discuss what went wrong

Thomas Rogers and Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 23, 2011 2:01 PM UTC 68
Entertainment Drive, Thrillers

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