From China, Iran, Japan and the U.S., a sampling of the 66th annual festival’s cinematic cuisine
Movies
Jerry Lewis: Le Nutty Professor Takes Cannes
At the festival to promote a new movie, the 87-year-old entertainer basks — if a bit uncomfortably — in the glow of an adoring audience
Writing Wrongs: 10 Movie Titles with Bad Grammar
A list of films that could have used a different kind of editor
Before Midnight: Very True Romance
The third—and our reviewer hopes, not last—film in the superb ‘Before’ series is sharp, poignant, and absolutely riveting
Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple
In this family satire, the director’s home region is a weird place, but you wouldn’t want to live there
Joel Stein Talks with the Director and Stars of Before Midnight
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and director Richard Linklater on: the writing process, their thoughts on their characters, and how they shoot a kissing scene
Today’s Movie Trailers: We’re the Millers and Don Jon Show Some Skin
New trailers for the forthcoming road-trip comedy and the rom-com that made a splash at Sundance
All Is Lost: Robert Redford Is Our Man
J.C. Chandor’s new film stocks its 105 minutes with enough seafaring challenges and adventure to keep mainstream audiences fascinated
The Hangover Part III: The Third Time’s the Harm
Did we really need two more ‘Hangover’ movies? What happened in Vegas should’ve stayed in Vegas
Only God Forgives: A Red Light for Ryan Gosling
A curiously passive Gosling recedes into the background in this ultra-violent and comically black Thai affair
As I Lay Dying: James Franco Does William Faulkner
An “unfilmable” novel becomes an art movie of modest accomplishments and frustrations
Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas IS Liberace
Matt Damon co-stars as the primping pianist’s lover in a funny, poignant, surprisingly warm biopic soon to air on HBO
Seduced and Abandoned: The Dirty, Funny Business of Movies
Alec Baldwin and James Toback’s search for film financing at Cannes makes for a mammothly entertaining documentary