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Woodward and Newman are on the Cannes poster

• Cannes
• March 22, 2013, 16:20

Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman will, come May, be hanging from every lamppost at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Great Gatsby to open Cannes. Who knew?

• Cannes
• March 12, 2013, 12:55

As many had predicted, Baz Luhrmann’s version of the classic novel — starring Leo DiCaprio as the unreliable protagonist — is set to launch the world’s greatest film festival in May.

Steven Spielberg heads the Cannes Jury

• Cannes Trailerspotting
• February 28, 2013, 16:46

The director of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Lincoln will help select this year’s Palme d’Or winner.

• Best-of lists Cannes Trailerspotting
• December 2, 2012, 22:48

Cahiers du Cinéma‘s  ever-eccentric best-of-the-year list has just been unveiled. In previous years, the durable organ of French cinema has expressed admiration for such odd films as Vincent Gallo’s The Brown Bunny, Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys and Brian de Palma’s …

• Apologies Cannes
• June 24, 2012, 18:06

Well many of us were certainly wrong when we tried to spell his name without looking it up first. It’s almost as hard to get right as “diarrhea”. Now, in previous years I would have worked that mention of loose …

• Cannes
• May 27, 2012, 16:48

A small contingent from the Dublin Film Critics’ Circle was in and about the hurly burly of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. As it winds down — anticipating the jury’s decisions later today — your current correspondent and Tara Brady, …

• Cannes
• May 27, 2012, 14:41

MUD **** Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson 135 min, playing in competition Fans of Jeff Nichols’s first two pictures — Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter — …

• Cannes
• May 26, 2012, 11:20

Tara Brady writes: Seasoned Cannes punters couldn’t help noticing that many of the films in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight selection were – whisper it – superior to most of the titles in the higher ranked Un Certain Regard. These are …