Cannes prize for film on Pol Pot
An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, The Missing Picture, which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot’s dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the “Un Certain Regard” prize at the Cannes
Levelling of sexes is idiotic, says Polanski
Roman Polanski said the birth control pill has had a “masculinising” effect on women and that the levelling of the sexes is “idiotic” The director made the comments on Saturday at the Cannes Film Fest
Mikkelsen crowned Cannes best actor
Love, the wrenching tale of an elderly Parisian caring for his dying wife, scooped top prize in Cannes on Sunday, handing a second Palme d’Or in three years to Austria’s Michael Hane-ke.
‘Anti-semitic’ film banned from festival
The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film The Anti-Semite, by controversial French comic Dieudonne, an official said on Thursday.
Polanski surprises Cannes with ad film
Roman Polanski on Monday delivered as promised his latest film at Cannes but it turned out to be an ad for the Italian luxury design house Prada.
Pitt scotches rumours of August wedding
Brad Pitt on Tuesday scotched rumours that his wedding to the other half of Hollywood’s hottest couple, Angelina Jolie, would take place in August.
Drenched Cannes hits half-way mark
A Romanian nunnery tale, a killer whale of a drama and a wrenching story of love and death jostled for Cannes glory on Monday as the world’s top cinema showcase hit the half-way mark.
Danish film blows away Cannes
The Hunt, a taut psychological thriller starring Danish heart-throb Mads Mikkelsen as a man falsely accused of molesting a child, emerged on Sunday as a hot contender at Cannes.
Sean Penn urges sex strike for haiti in Cannes
Actor and activist Sean Penn urged a glamorous party of Cannes actresses and glitterati to go on a sex strike unless their men stumped up at a charity auction held for Haiti on Friday night.
Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks to get film treatment: Report
The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, reports said from Cannes on Saturday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain's phone-hacking scandal.