This year's Cannes Festival selection will be revealed during a press conference given in Paris on April 16th. At this time about a third of the contending films have been identified, according to the festival's general delegate (and programmer) Thierry Frémaux. A whopping 1,800 films have been submitted this year. "Everything happens in the next two weeks," Frémaux told the French National Assembly's Committee on Cultural Affairs on Wednesday here in Paris.

It's been a few days now since Sam Weisberg published his article about the rivalry between two men (a director, Abel Ferrara, and a distributor, Vincent Maraval) and the former's claims to artistic prerogative surrounding the production and subsequent U.S. release of the movie "Welcome to New York." I sent a link of Sam's article to Abel Ferrara, who had also received financing from Paris-based Wild Bunch

June 1996 - “Independence Day” slain the monster, bringing in more than $ 300 million in sales. Its director, Roland Emmerich, has planned a sequel, called "ID2," and pre-production is to begin in the next few weeks. But that’s not really all that exciting anymore. What’s interesting, and rather weird, is the fact that French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg will have a leading role in “ID2.” Yes, Gainsbourg

(PARIS) Here’s guessing you’re not going to see French cinéaste Abdellatif Kechiche (at left in picture) and producer/distributor Marin Karmitz enjoying onion soup together at Le Sélect anytime soon. A court in France ruled that Palme D’Or recipient Kechiche (“Blue is the warmest color,” a.k.a. “La vie D’Adèle” in the original French title) did not fulfill the terms of the contract that bound him to MK2

Brazilian filmmakers sometimes cast a punishing gaze toward the social ills of their country. It's a feat of uninhibited self-examination that can make the viewer unsettled but also subdued by the beauty and mystery of this country, the directness of the image and the stirring tales of woes encountered by the characters who populate them. Starting tomorrow and running through to May 18th the Cinémathèque Française will be

IMDB’s External reviews page is conceivably the most complete index of film reviews in the history of computer-literate mankind. It's almost the most neglected one. Anyone who's needed to look up information about a film knows that External Reviews is it, a high-affluence destination where film critics post their point of view about any given film. But I'm guessing that more than a few people would rather run off to Reddit or Rotten

Albert Maysles, who was one of the first documentary filmmakers [...]