John Travolta introduced his directorial debut, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach,” reportedly the first film selected for this year’s Cannes program, by admitting that it’s basically a look at what ...

They climb the region’s red rocks and dive into the Mediterranean—at least when the marine police aren’t watching. They drive ...

When we first meet Paula (Tatiana Maslany), the protagonist of Apple TV+’s new series “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” she’s ...

Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit ...

One of the quintessential experiences of Cannes is having the lights go down, then having a director you thought you knew what you were getting from make a complete left turn. It happened for me ...

Sex, violence, neon, and leather: Nicolas Winding Refn is back. A decade after his last feature film, “The Neon Demon,” the divisive filmmaker returned to Cannes this year with “Her Private Hell,” a ...

If, as is suggested early in Ron Howard’s documentary “Avedon,” the genius of an archetypal Richard Avedon photograph lies in how it strips away everything extraneous—so that nothing remains but the ...

The director talks about capturing “magic parts,” deploying unique textures, and the role of art and the artist in a ...

Three films from this year’s Cannes are distinct in tone and setting, but all feature troubled young people trying to solve ...

The afternoon of the day he was killed in 1980, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, sat for a radio interview at their ...

On two very different Competition titles from this year's Cannes: New works from James Gray and Hirokazu Kore-eda.

In this video dispatch, Scott Dummler interviews correspondent Zachary Lee about some of his highlights from the fest, from "Karma" to a restoration screening of Ken Russell's "The Devils." ...