Resonances

Cannes has plenty of visiting stars: people everyone knows of but needn’t. Then there are people not so famous that anyone would benefit from knowing. One of these is Norman Lloyd, the actor, producer and director of movies, stage plays and TV shows, whom the Festival honored Thursday...

Fifty years after George Franju’s adaptation of the Francois Mauriac novel reached the Paris screens, this new version of Thérèse Desqueyroux finally absolves its heroine of her oppressing guilt and allows her to stroll scot free through the streets of Paris.Miller, who has been known to...

At 33, "Mud" writer/director Jeff Nichols is the youngest filmmaker in competition for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The Little Rock native slayed festivalgoers with his critically acclaimed 2007 domestic drama "Shotgun Stories" and reteamed with that film's star,...

Led by his two charismatic young lead actors, Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot is an almost compulsively endearing film about two tough-talking teenagers in the Bronx. Set over two swelteringly hot summer days during which they plan to make their names by pulling off New York’s most daring...