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The following table of contents features the complete line-up of coverage from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival published at RogerEbert.com by Chaz Ebert, Barbara Scharres, Ben Kenigsberg and others. Click on each title, and you will...

Explosive is an adjective that might aptly describe some films, but it’s not a word you want to hear applied to the theater where you’re about to see a film. Friday’s biggest happening at the Cannes festival...

Few filmmakers have mastered the genre of documentary-as-diary, and most who try it succumb to self-involvement. But Agnès Varda has made some of the loveliest, most intricately woven examples of the genre, as viewers of “The...

Being an assistant to any filmmaker would be taxing, but working for a director as exacting as Stanley Kubrick? And earning his deep trust over a period of many years? It happened to Leon Vitali, the...

Chaos reigned at the Cannes festival’s Grande Theatre Lumiere this morning during the press premiere of the environmentally-conscious comedy “Okja.” Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s film suffered a quarter-hour of technical problems, with shouts, whistles and...

The following video was produced by Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works.The red carpet is open for business here for the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, and we are so happy to be here....

The title of Steve James’ new documentary “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” is a play on a phrase that was popularized during the 2008 financial crisis: that certain banks were “too big to fail” and had...

The idea of just walking away from a seemingly settled life is one that’s gotten a pretty good workout in both film and literature. The 2008 short story “Wakefield,” by American literary giant E.L. Doctorow, put...

What we casually refer to as the Cannes Film Festival is actually several festivals in one. There’s the festival proper — the “official selection,” which consists of movies that screen at theaters adjoining the famous Palais...

Charismatic film actors can work miracles with so-so material. But there usually comes a point when they can no longer camouflage that the story they are so earnestly committed to telling is somewhat suspect.For at least...