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Cannes Awards Tree of Life Top Prize

At the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped up on Sunday, writer-director Terrence Malick earned the festival’s most prestigious award, the Palme d’Or, for his film Tree of Life. The Palme d’Or, or “Golden Palm,” goes to the director of the best feature film of the official competition....  read more

Cannes Winner Uncle Boonmee Gets U.S. Release

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul won hearts with his Palme D’Or-winning film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives. The tale of a man facing his last days surrounded by family members deals with heavy things like mortality and reincarnation in a fantastical way, garnering the support of Cannes jurors and worldwide attention....  read more

Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Released From Prison Following Hunger Strike, Cannes Pleas

Celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been freed from a Tehran prison following two months of detainment for unnamed charges. He was arrested in March following his public support of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in the country’s recent heavily-disputed presidential election....  read more

Juliet Binoche, Javier Bardem, More Win Big at Cannes 2010

The 63rd-annual Cannes Film Festival, headed by President of the Jury Tim Burton, wrapped up this weekend. Nineteen contenders vied for honors, presenting stories ranging from a housemaid’s affair with her master to ruminations on the afterlife in the Thai countryside....  read more

Thai Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul Takes Home Palme d'Or

The winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival isn’t your average Joe....  read more

M83 Scores Gilles Marchand's Black Heaven

French musician Anthony Gonzalez (AKA: M83) is bringing his soaring electro-pop to the big screen; he scored the film Black Heaven, which will premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Black Heaven, or L’autre monde, was directed by Gilles Marchand and will be screened out of competition at the film fest....  read more

Andy Serkis Talks Imaginarium Project at Cannes

Andy Serkis is promoting a new film project at the Cannes Film Festival....  read more

James Franco and Kirsten Dunst's Shorts to Close Cannes' Critic's Week

Actors James Franco and Kirsten Dunst have both directed short films before. But this year, according to Screen Daily, their films will close the Critic’s Week sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. Dunst’s film, titled Bastard, is about a young couple who travel to a remote desert hotel to meet three shady men. It’s also being shown at the Tribeca festival in New York. Franco’s film is based on Spencer Reese’s poem, and it’s titled The Clerk’s Tale....  read more

Cannes Film Festival Announces Director's Fortnight Lineup

Every May, the international film industry descends upon the French Riviera for the Cannes International Film Festival. Although the festival is largely a business event, where multi-million dollar movie deals go down on cocktail napkins in swanky hotel bars along the Croisette, a sidebar called the Director’s Fortnight (Quinzaine Des Réalisateurs en français) shows independent-minded films from all over the world in a non-competitive showcase. Especially covering fiction features, short films and documentaries, this sidebar is one place in Cannes to see new talent....  read more

Cannes Film Festival Announces 2010 Lineup

It would be an understatement to say the Cannes Film Festival is regarded as one of the film industry’s most important events. And this year’s festival reinforces those words: The just-announced official selections include Film Socialisme from one of Paste’s best living directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Biutiful from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Blue Valentine from Derek Cianfrance and Another Year by Mike Leigh....  read more