Boos rang out at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday for a blood-spattered revenge tale starring Ryan Gosling as a US fugitive running a Bangkok drugs racket and Kristin Scott Thomas as a cross between “Lady Macbeth and Donatella Versace.”
It’s a fitting “homecoming” for the late National Artist for Film Lino Brocka in this resort city south of France.
The Cannes Film Festival’s 2013 lineup announced Thursday features work from some of the globe’s most dangerous locales for artists, and a sprinkling of works by old favorites including Roman Polanski, the Coen brothers and Steven Soderbergh.
Grammy award-winning US musician Will.I.Am was allowed into Paris’s Louvre museum at two in the morning to record part of a song entitled “Smile Mona Lisa” in front of the famed painting by Leonardo da Vinci, he told reporters in Paris on Wednesday.
The suicide of a doctor on a hit French reality TV show sparked shock on Tuesday, with some blaming media pressure for his death while others urged restrictions on reality programs.
Hollywood star Natalie Portman is swapping New York for Paris along with her French husband Benjamin Millepied after he secured the post of dance director at the French capital’s Opera.
It’s no joke. A Filipino comic won best actress in Europe. Known for her comedy roles, particularly for the indie hit “Kimmy Dora,” Eugene Domingo won best actress at the 3rd Pau International Film Festival held in France over the weekend, for her work in Marlon Rivera’s “Ang Babae sa Septic Tank.” [...]
Work on Filipino filmmaker Pepe Diokno’s second film “Above the Clouds” could finally proceed after it received financing from France’s World Cinema Support fund.
South Korean pop sensation Psy caused a riot in Paris on Monday, drawing up to 20,000 people for a “Gangnam Style” flashmob held opposite the Eiffel Tower.
The “Jason Bourne” blockbuster spy series hit the screens at France’s 38th Deauville film festival with the latest instalment featuring all the usual action but no usual suspect.
Tales of true love, mobsters, and an exorcism gone wrong lead the pack of 22 world cinema contenders racing for the Cannes festival’s Palme d’Or top prize to be awarded on Sunday.
Australia will be racing for Cannes gold this year with Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue lighting up the red carpet and two directors from Down Under competing for the Palme d’Or.
