Actor Orlando Bloom has confirmed his attendance at the San [...]

Ali Naderzad, editor of Screen Comment, and Saïdeh Pakravan, film critic, discuss Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood.” Saïdeh Pakravan: Your first remark about the film was about the distillation of images and episodes. You said you found great purity in that. Ali Naderzad: Yes, in the sense that the filmmaker goes directly to the essence of each character

Portland-born Anna Kendrick is the all-American girl by definition. She first came on our radar after playing the role of Jessica in the "Twilight" saga, alongside Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Kendrick also appeared in Jeffrey Blitz's "Rocket Science" in which she plays an ultra-competitive college student; the film was shown at Sundance in 2007. She was also seen in 2009's "The Marc Peace Experience" with Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman, and "Elsewhere" by Nathan Hope.

Kendrick landed her first screen role in "Camp" by Todd Graff

IMDB's one-sentence description of Pascale Ferran's new film is a nearly-apt one: "an American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew. "French filmmaker Ferran, known for her "Lady Chatterley" and "Petits arrangements entre les morts" (2010) for which she won the Caméra D'Or in Cannes, took "Birdpeople" to Cannes again this year but earned some mixed reviews there.

Richard Attenborough passed away over the weekend. Attenborough was the performing arts’ renaissance man, having involved himself with great success in acting just as well as directing and producing. His final film as a director was “Closing the ring” (2007), although he’ll be remembered particularly for “Gandhi,” which I, and everyone else of my generation, discovered in 1983 with much emotion and relish. He won two Academy Awards

Lav Diaz, congratulations, your film "Mula sa kung ano ang noon" ("From what is before" in tagalog) won the Pardo d'oro. It's unbelievable ! Thank you Locarno, thank you Carlo, thank you so much, I am speechless about it.

Jean Renoir used to say that in order to reach out to the whole world, you have to talk about your own village. This film is based on the memories from my own childhood

In a recent statement Susan Schneider, who married Williams in October 2011, revealed that the actor-comedian had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Here's a recent statement she gave:

"Robin spent so much of his life helping others. Whether he was entertaining millions on stage, film, or television, our troops on the frontlines, or comforting a sick child — Robin wanted us to laugh and to feel less afraid.