Festival of sirens
Judging from this year’s Cannes screenings, cinema is obsessed with seductive angels of mercy
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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson writes about film and the arts for Maclean’s. He’s also a filmmaker, and director of the annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Gala.
Photo gallery: Cannes Film Festival
Brian D. Johnson captures what it’s like to cover the prestigious festival
De Niro’s jury turns ’The Tree of Life’ into a Golden Palm
Kirsten Dunst wins the actress prize for Lars Von Trier’s ’Melancholia’; Gosling vehicle ’Drive’ gets best director
Silence and scandal in the Cannes bubble
A festival that bridged the gap between art house and audience
Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn heat up Cannes
Best Actor looks like a duel between two Hollywood stars who handpicked their European directors
Lars Von Trier banished from Cannes
Cannes exiles Danish bad boy as it honours banned Iranian
Review: Robert Redford: The Biography
Book by Michael Feeney Callan
Lars Von Trier, Nazi pornographer manqué
On Hitler: "I sympathize with him a bit"
’The Tree of Life’, aka 2011: A Space Odyssey
Brad Pitt says Terrence Malick was ’the guy with a butterfly net,’ waiting for happy accidents
Silence is golden
A black-and-white silent movie is an unlikely crowd-pleaser in Cannes