Posts Tagged Cannes Film Festival

Cannes: James Franco builds a bookish filmography

Director James Franco poses for photographers during a photo call for the film As I Lay Dying at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

CANNES, France (AP) — James Franco’s filmography is starting to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that.

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Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.

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Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders

Actress Berenice Bejo poses for portraits at during the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Laurent Emmanuel)

CANNES, France (AP) — 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.

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‘Catching Fire’ dampened but not drowned at Cannes

From left, actors Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin pose for photographers during a photo call for the film The Hunger Game: Catching Fire at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP)

CANNES, France (AP) — Little could lessen the fever-pitched excitement for “Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” but heavy rain nevertheless dampened the film’s lavish Cannes party.

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A Native American tale with international pedigree

Actors Mathieu Amalric, left, and Benicio Del Toro pose for photographers during a photo call for the film Jimmy P. Psychotheraphy of a Plains Indian at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

CANNES, France (AP) — 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.

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