Cannes 2012. Awards
Adam CookThe Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s Amour. Also, a comprehensive list of all the award winners.
The Palme d’Or goes to Michael Haneke’s Amour. Also, a comprehensive list of all the award winners.
Kiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, Resnais: some of the biggest names of the festival unveil their latest works
On the opening day of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival: a poster round-up of the films in competition.
Also: Jean-Pierre Dardenne heads up Cannes’ Cinefondation jury. And Werner Herzog’s got 2.5 projects in the works.
Profiles of Ken Loach in the run-up to a retrospective in London emphasize his directorial style.
Even as he turns 75 today, Ken Loach carries on working. The BBC spotted him just the other day shooting in a Scottish distillery; his next project, The Angels' Share, is evidently "about a troublemaker
Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray opens this evening and runs through April 26 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Of special interest is Home and the World [1984; image above], his final
Two films directed by sons of famous British fathers open this weekend, Source Code, by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie (though Jones is never eager to flaunt it), on both sides of the Atlantic (and
"From Vidas Secas to Central Station, Brazil's northeast has long held a cinematic place as a sweltering netherworld of struggle, madness, and stark landscapes," writes Fernando F Croce in Slant
"Ken Loach's last minute addition to Cannes competition is a hard-edged thriller — his first, in fact, since Hidden Agenda played competition here in 1990 — covering dirty deeds by contractors in
What with Cannes and all, this roundup of what the critics are saying about the films opening this weekend is a day late, but at least we've got Robin Hood out of the way. "Suppose what we call
"Ken Loach will arrive fashionably late at this week's Cannes film festival — his latest drama has just been confirmed as a last-minute contender for the Palme d'Or award," reports Xan Brooks for