The Artist

Tradition triumphs with wins by Plummer, Streep and ’The Artist’

The absence of speech creates emotional space in the Oscar front-runner

Silent film homages lead the race, while Canadians score 2.5 nominations

This French film that needs no subtitles is the kind of movie Woody Allen would like to have made

I sat at a table with a lively crew of film critics who had no shortage of opinions

Plunging into the deep end with Ryan Gosling, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth Olsen, George Clooney, Vanessa Paradis . . .

A black-and-white silent movie is an unlikely crowd-pleaser in Cannes