May 27th, 2009 · Our critic at large returns with the second part of his report from this year's Cannes Film Festival, including his impressions of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and the South Korean vampire flick Thirst — both due out in the United States later this summer.
May 26th, 2009 · Director and screenwriter Pete Docter's newest film, Up, is an adventure story featuring a grouchy old man, a chubby boy, a 13-foot-tall flightless bird and a house set aloft by balloons. Up is the first animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival.
May 22nd, 2009 · France's Cannes Film Festival is underway. Kenneth Turan, who reviews movies for Morning Edition and the Los Angeles Times says the movies are surprisingly good.
May 17th, 2009 · On the first full weekend of the Cannes Film Festival, Rebecca Roberts checks in with Charles Ealy, an editor with the Austin (Texas) American Statesman, who travels to southern France every year for the festival. He talks about his lunch with director Ang Lee and about several movies showing there, including Heath Ledger's last film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. The movie was finished with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell playing Ledger's character in dream sequences. Its director is Terry Gilliam, a Monty Python grad who is known for huge, out-of-control flicks that people think are brilliant or messes or often both.
May 14th, 2009 · This year's Cannes Film Festival is being called the year of the director. The film festival on the French Riviera opened Wednesday. Xan Brooks, film correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, offers his insight.
May 27th, 2008 · Fresh Air critic-at-large John Powers spent some time at the Cannes Film Festival this month, and today he reports back on what he saw. He says this year's movies weren't half bad — but for Americans, at least, the festival had a gloomy, fatalistic vibe.
May 19th, 2008 · Film critic Kenneth Turan was among those at the Cannes Film Festival in France who got to see one of the most anticipated movies of the summer Sunday. He discusses Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
May 18th, 2008 · The Cannes Film Festival is always a melange of the ridiculous and the sublime. We get a report on a Filipino disaster and a Turkish success, as well as a taste of Indiana Jones.