Director Fatih Akin's latest film, Soul Kitchen, originally conceived as a lark, is an amiable comedy about a Berlin restaurant, two brothers, a crazy chef and tax collectors, and it marks a notable change of pace from his past endeavors.
61st CANNES FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL: From the world's biggest and most important film festival we speak with Washington, D.C. residents and Boston natives, the brotherly cousins Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor who screened... Read More
Argentine writer-director Lucia Puenzo makes her feature debut with an unusual coming of age tale XXY, adapted from a short story by Argentine writer Sergio Bizzio. Puenzo discusses why she made a movie about a... Read More
The Palme D'Or prizewinner at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days set in the last days of Communist rule considers a woman's struggle for an illegal abortion. Actress... Read More
60th Cannes Film Festival Special: After two highly acclaimed but noncommercial films, Little Odessa (1994) and The Yards (2000, subsequently re-released on DVD in an entirely different director's cut),... Read More
At the 60th Cannes Film Festival: The affable Irish artist Catherine Owens charts her relationship with Bono and U2 as the group opted to make their second concert film in high-def 3D while on a recent South American... Read More
At the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Harmony Korine, the boy wonder who wrote Kids at 22 and wrote and directed Gummo and Julian Donkey-Boy, is back after a reported two stints in rehab and time with a... Read More
A NYU Film School graduate whose video work and installations have been exhibited at P.S.1, Julia Loktev's debut feature, Day Night Day Night was chosen for the 59th Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Directors... Read More
Not all the movies or actors who come to the Cannes Film Festival have films in competition. While the world's focus is on the official entries with their red carpeted premieres, Cannes' real business is a much bigger... Read More
William Friedkin may forever be known as the man who made pea green soup scary with 1973's The Exorcist. With the low-budget, high-intensity psychological thriller Bug, Friedkin shows he can still unnerve... Read More
Here Pell James is interviewed by Stephen Schaefer at this year's Cannes Film Festival. James, hardly starstruck, speaks candidly about a business that is seen as glamorous but, as she points out, can definitely be described as soul-stripping.
Chen Kaige came to prominence alongside Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou) in the early 1990s as one of a group of Fifth Generation mainland Chinese directors. His Farewell My Concubine was the first Asian film... Read More
