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Cannes rolls out red carpet for Indian movies
Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word — "Bollywood" — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and screening Sunday of "Bombay Talkies," a ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: JAMES CAAN GOES BACK TO THE 70S They don't make movies like they used to — which is why James Caan was happy to go back to the 1970s in Guillaume Canet's "Blood Ties." An icon of '70s ...
AP Interview: Soderbergh on quitting movies
Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency. In his Chelsea studio, among various film posters and piles of moviemaking mementos, he has a few paintings in progress, including a new, livelier, "more Hendrix" version of a U.S. dollar bill. It's only one of the many artistic endeavors he bounces ...
Japan's 'Shield of Straw' an action pic in Cannes
Director Takashi Miike says shooting an action movie in Japan is a lot harder than it looks. His Cannes Film Festival entry "Shield of Straw" is a robust thriller about a team of police tasked with escorting a child-killer with a billion-yen bounty on his head safely across the country. ...
Amalric plays a Frenchman in America in 'Jimmy P'
Playing a Freudian analyst helped Mathieu Amalric overcome his fear and loathing of psychotherapy. The French actor depicts a maverick academic counseling Benicio Del Toro's Native American war vet in "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian," director Arnaud Desplechin's Cannes Film Festival contender. Based on a true case study ...
'Trek' does $70.6M but falls short of studio hopes
"Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations. The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009's "Star Trek," which ...
Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders
The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette. But the world's leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better than actors ...
'Catching Fire' dampened but not drowned at Cannes
Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for "Hunger Games: Catching Fire," but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film's lavish Cannes party. Stars of the "Hunger Games" sequel, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Clafin, arrived Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. "Catching Fire," perhaps more than any other film not ...
Hot off the press: Seen and heard in Cannes
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings? The Cannes Film Festival was wondering that Saturday, when Kore-eda Hirokazu's elegant and emotional "Like Father, Like Son" premiered. It quickly emerged as an early contender for ...
A Native American tale with international pedigree
It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, where ...
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