Brian D. Johnson

For two weeks each May, a quaint town on the French Riviera becomes a Hollywood fantasy in the flesh. Throughout the 2008 Cannes...

Read Brian D. Johnson’s extended backstage interview with Leonard Cohen in 2008

The weekend’s big movie for fully grown children is You Don’t Mess With the Zohan , the new Judd Apatow-branded comedy starring...

Which of these social-justice films will catch fire? A) 4 1/2 subtitled hours on Che Guevara or B) a Jolie melodrama.

So in the end, how was Cannes? As I’m writing this, at 36,000 ft. somewhere above Greenland, I realize I’ll need a response...

It’s 2 am, and too late to be typing. It was a full evening, beginning with the awards and ending with a windblown party at the...

Skipped a French movie to see Atom Egoyan accept the Ecumenical Jury Prize. Looks like my earlier announcement of it broke an...

At the press conference after the Cannes premiere of Synecdoche , New York , Charlie Kaufman’s feature directing debut, the...

This just in. Atom Egoyan has won the Ecumenical jury’s prize in Cannes for Adoration . It’s awarded by a different jury than the...

Just got back from a late dinner with a gang of journalists at La Pizza, which has always been Roger Ebert’s favorite restaurant...