One of the most important British independent filmmakers, Mike Leigh, opened the day with his latest comedy drama, All or Nothing, produced by Alain Sarde, starring Timothy Spall (Phil),...

Alain Resnais is best remembered for his mythical first feature film Hiroshima Mon Amour, (1939), an intense passion between a man ( Eiji Okada ) and a woman ( Emmanuelle Riva )...

One of the most influential filmmakers of the last decade, Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), who started off in the film world at the age of 36, is the subject of a storyboards exposition at ...

Directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Katia Lund, Cidade de Deus, shot in 9 weeks between June and August 2001, takes us, through the favelas, and down in the most dangerous...

Steve Coogan AKA Alan Partridge, portrays Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom's latest, 24 Hour Party People.

An exposition, Le Festival en Affiches, is being held to celebrate the Cannes 55th edition with a retrospective of all the posters created for the festival since its lauch in 1939.

In this brand new Dreamworks 2D animated picture, already considered by some as exciting and shrewd as animated blockbuster Shrek, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, directed by Kelly...

Terra Incognita analyses five lost destinies in a reconstructed Beirut. After 17 years of consecutive wars, can a town survive ? The main characters of this picture, Soraya (Carole ...

Paul Morrissey was barely twenty when he met Andy Warhol. He surely had no idea, then, he was going to become the cult underground director we all know. Born in 1938, he starts making...

The Cannes film festival was first supposed to be held in september 1939. Sadly, the war changed the order of things. Everything was ready: the jury, the film selection. The 55th edition...

Manoel de Oliveira, (1999 - "La Lettre", Prix du jury), an ambassador of portuguese cinema for over 40 years now, is back in Cannes to present The Uncertainty of Principle, an entangled ...

After his recent London based drama, Wonderland (1999 - nominated for the Palme d'Or), Michael Winterbottom moves up north to Manchester this time to capture the sprawling music culture...

Celebrating the 50th birthday of the magazine, Positif, great rival to the cult Cahiers du Cinema, the Cannes film festival is holding the exhibition, "50 contemporay film-makers", at 6...