Grand Hotel, Paris – Seems like we’ve just completed a revolution: filmmakers who remained away from the Croisette in the last few years will be making their mark this year again, hoping to bring back the glory of the past, namely: Matteo Garrone, who’ll be presenting Reality, Carlos Reygadas with Post Tenebras Lux, Ken Loach with the Angel’s Share and Jacques Audiard with De Rouille et D’Os—all competing for a Palme D’Or

The Cannes Festival announced that actor Tim Roth will be presiding over the Un Certain Regard jury this year. Created in 1978, Un Certain regard is the festival’s twin brother program, with a distinctive birthmark: it fetes new filmmakers. The U.C.R jury will hand out its own awards, albeit during a more low-key ceremony, on the day before the main selection's closing. A generous 30,000 euros purse to cover the winning film's distribution co-

(This is an ongoing series which will be updated with the latest iPad apps as they become available to the public.) Writing about apps for movie fandom can be self-defeating. As I found out after I got mine, iPad-specific applications are few and far between compared to the treasure trove of iPhone applications available out there (maybe the new retina-display version will inspire developers to cater to us more).

Each of the apps reviewed

You'll remember Krysten Ritter from her performance in the best television series of all time, namely, Breaking Bad. Her turn was short-lived but the character lent a new intensity to the show and greatly increased the stakes for Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). More recently Ritter co-wrote a screenplay and the resulting movie, L!fe Happens, is coming out this week.

Ritter plays Kim, a young

Kurt Cobain died April in 1994 in Seattle. If someone then had told you that eighteen years later Tom Cruise might be picked to play him in a biopic, would you have believed them? According to Variety, Cruise was tapped to play the grunge rock legend in an upcoming biopic to be produced by Warner Brothers, based on a screenplay adapted from the 1937 movie A Star is Born by writer Will Fetters of Remember Me fame. Previously there had

With all the cartel and gang violence happening south of […]

Swiss-born London-based visual artist Christian Marclay, who several years ago […]

A Brazil-based company has acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of "Blood on the Tracks," Bob Dylan's legendary album."As long-time admirers of what is considered one of the greatest albums in music history, we feel privileged to be able to make this film," said R.T. Features president Rodrigo Teixeira. R.T. Features produced O Cheiro do Ralo (the drain smell), a hilarious tale about an embittered pawnshop

The days of James Bond dropping his famous “shaken not stirred” line are behind us.

According to a story in advertising trade Ad Age, Daniel Craig will be drinking Heineken in the next installment of James Bond. Marketing for the world’s most famous franchise was turned on its head a while ago, however. First, the Aston Martin disappeared, then the Rolex: our man in MI5 has since been driving a BMW and we-

What’s France’s hottest property right now? Jean Dujardin. What does he have in common with Charlie Sheen? Nothing. Until now. Figuring they have carte blanche for all kinds of shenanigans (that strangest of prerogatives among comedians), a team of Canadian radio pranksters named les Justiciers masqués (the masked vigilantes) called up Charlie Sheen with a job offer, and Charlie Sheen got played like a fiddle-listen