Penelope Cruz flees Cannes
Is it the flu, or food poisoning, or is it time to spread pregnancy rumours?
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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.
The unbroken embrace of Almodóvar and Cruz
Spain’s maestro is overdue for a Palme D’Or but despite his new film is not his best
Kill your mother and go to Cannes
Barely out of adolescence, Quebec wunderkind Xavier Dolan dazzles Cannes with his feature debut
Lars Von Trier is The Antichrist
The Danish auteur dishes up arthouse horror that seems calculated to shock Cannes at any cost
Imprisoned with ’A Prophet’
A French drama about a jailed Arab emerges as an early Cannes favorite
Taking, and retaking, Woodstock
Ang Lee’s biggest challenge with ’Taking Woodstock’ was to find skinny, unpumped extras with unshaved pubic hair.
Romantics on the Riviera
After six fallow years, Jane Campion roars back to form with a gorgeous feel-good movie about doomed love
CSI Rome: Angels and Demons
Opening Weekend: It’s amazing but true—the new Dan Brown movie is not boring
Coppola and Cannes in the wild
’Tetro’ is a quixotic adventure in filmmaking from an American director trying to time-travel back to the European New Wave
From Cannes: Up, Up and Away
Like the house in Disney-Pixar’s ’Up,’ this festival is held aloft by a colossal suspension of disbelief