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CANNES, France - For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson.

After the recent Cannes Film Festival, actress Julianne Moore stirred up a lot of buzz surrounding her ensemble.

After the recent Cannes Film Festival, actress Julianne Moore stirred up a lot of buzz surrounding her ensemble.

Actress Marion Cotillard has given her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse movie, "The Immigrant." The drama, premiering Friday at the Cannes Film Festival, was filmed at Ellis Island where millions of immigrants arrived from Europe in search of a better ... (more)

The Traffic director has just announced he is retiring from filmmaking with his final film, Behind The Candelabra starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and about to air on HBO in the US this week.

The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who sang at the gold-themed auction event nearby the Cannes Film Festival, hosted by actress Sharon Stone, and held at the French Riviera's exclusive Hotel Du Cap over-looking the sea.

The director who put Robert Redford in a struggle for survival as a capsized sailor in "All Is Lost" is talking about mortality when a gust of wind lifts a large beach umbrella from its base and sends it and its heavy metal pole sailing straight toward a publicist sitting nearby.

Release Date : May 24, 2013 Rating : PG Genre : Animated/Family/3D Run Time : 102 min.

The Wolf Pack has returned for one last round with the release of "The Hangover III." If director Todd Phillips sticks to his word about "Hangover's" story ending here, we know we'll miss the camaraderie between Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Justin Bartha the most.

Skyfall actress Naomie Harris tweeted this image of herself with a Psy imposter who fooled many at the Cannes Film Festival.

Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros - in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Payne premiered his black-and-white follow-up to "The Descendants" on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where the gentle tale drew largely enthusiastic reviews for both its warmth and its colorless cinematography.

Ang Lee's Oscar-winning effort for the movie "Life of Pi" has so exhausted him he's decided to pull out of plans to direct the FX series pilot "Tyrant." In a statement, Ang said: "It is one of the most brilliant ideas for a series that I've seen and one about which I was very excited.

President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to... Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and ... (more)

One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot.

Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .

David Greene talks with Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan about some of the movies at this year's Cannes Film Festival in France.

The Dark Knight Rises actor Joseph Gordon Levitt will take on a role like nobody has ever seen before in his upcoming directorial debut Don Jon .

There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us.

There's a school of writing that holds that even the most ordinary lives, deeply and thoughtfully observed, can be rendered into art.