US director Sean Baker wins top honours at Cannes 2024
The American director Sean Baker – best known for Tangerine and The Florida Project – has won the prestigious Palme d’Or – the
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Cannes
Cannes line-up includes previous winners and other familiar faces
As Cannes hopes to return to normal, after two years disrupted by the pandemic, the organisers have announced a line-up bursting with previous
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An abbreviated Cannes Film Festival to take place, five months late
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival are to stage a mini version of the event, in its traditional home at the Palais
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Cannes Film Market to take place online in June
The organisers is the Cannes Film Festival have announced that the market that usually runs alongside it will take place online from 22
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Cannes Film Festival won’t be held “in its original form.”
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have responded to the lengthening of the lockdown in France by acknowledging that it’s “clearly difficult
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Spike Lee to chair the jury at Cannes 2020
The American director Spike Lee has been selected to chair the main Palme d’Or jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Photo: Spike
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Mexican double-Oscar winning director to head Cannes jury
With 5 of the last 6 Best Director Oscars going to Mexicans, the country’s film-making is world-leading and in recognition of this, one
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Japanese film Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or at Cannes 2018, under the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.
The Japanese film Shoplifters has won the top prize at a Cannes Film Festival, overshadowed by the spectre of Harvey Weinstein.
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Un Certain Regard prizes at 2018 Cannes Film Festival
A Swedish fantasy romance thriller has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard strand at the Cannes Film Festival. Gräns, about
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Cannes 2018 – The Second Wednesday
It was my last day in Cannes, so for once, I had to make sure I was up for the 8.30am screening. In Under the Silver Lake, Andrew Garfield stars as a guy who’s just lost his job and is on the verge of losing his LA apartment, when he gets involved with a girl who disappears and then turns up dead, alongside a missing businessman.
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Cannes 2018 – The Second Tuesday
Spike Lee explains why he takes a pop at the US President at the end of his Palme d’Or-nominated film, BlacKkKlansman. Press conferences
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Cannes 2018 – The Only Monday
Today started with more talk of how to improve inclusion in the UK film industry with an all-woman panel discussion at the UK
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Cannes 2018 – The Only Sunday
My day started with a sobering experience; I found out what it was like to be part of a minority in the film
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Cannes 2018 – The First Saturday
As I took my place at this morning’s press conference for Jean-Luc Godard’s Image Book, in the hope that I’d end up with
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Cannes 2018 – The First Friday
Today’s early film was from the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose previous film Ida won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film.
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Cannes 2018 – The First Thursday
I’d forgotten how tough Cannes is, being out late, staying up even later to file contemporaneous articles and then waking up early enough
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Cannes 2018 – The First Wednesday
Every festival delegate was given a post-card to remind them not to commit the grotesque sin of taking selfies on the red carpet
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Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to close the Cannes Film Festival
After twenty years in the making, Terry Gilliam’s ill-starred The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will finally receive its world premiere at next
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Actresses Kristen Stewart & Léa Seydoux and directors of Loveless, Selma & Blade Runner join Cannes Palme d’Or jury
The organisers of the Cannes Film Festival have confirmed the film-makers who will join the Australian actress Cate Blanchett in choosing the winners
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Spike Lee, poster boy Jean-Luc Godard & 8 newcomers join Cannes competition
Spike Lee is back in competition in Cannes for the first time since Jungle Fever, 28 years ago, with (read it carefully) BlacKkKlansman
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