Nanni Moretti

CANNES, France — It was close to 1 a.m Thursday morning when Bill Murray began pulling randoms into the dancing circle. Just a few hours before, Murray’s “Moonrise Kingdom” — his latest collaboration with American oddball...

Nanni Moretti, director of "The Son's Room," has been named as this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president....

The Cannes Film Festival is opening with an American comedy: the festival has announced that Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" will kick off the annual cinephile gathering May 16....

In Nanni Moretti's latest film, “We Have a Pope,” he goes back toward comedy and religion. Octogenarian French actor Michel Piccoli (“Contempt,” “Belle de Jour”) plays a French cardinal named Melville who is...

Actor Tim Roth has been named head of the jury for Un Certain Regard, the Cannes Film Festival section that runs parallel to the festival’s main competition. Roth, who’s come to Cannes with films such as “Reservoir Dogs” and...

The Cannes Film Festival selects “Therese D,” the final work from the late Claude Miller, as its closing-night film. Claude Miller's "Therese D," starring Audrey Tautou, will screen at the Cannes Film Festival on May 27....

The Cannes Film Festival's lineup was announced in Paris, with Kristen Stewart's "On the Road," Robert Pattinson's and David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" and Brad Pitt's "Killing Me Softly" in the lineup....

The Cannes Film Festival announced Wednesday that American director Alexander Payne (“The Descendants,” “Sideways”), Scottish actor Ewan McGregor (“Star Wars: Episode I,” “Trainspotting”) and German...

Where there's white smoke, there's fire. The selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next pontiff, Pope Francis, has some in the entertainment business thinking creatively. IFC Films' Sundance Selects, the company that released Nanni...

As topics for fact-based movies go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one as tricky as the papal selection. The process is cloaked in secrecy, for starters, and it’s not like it happens much more than once a decade. Yet the news that Pope...

Oscar winner Martin Scorsese (good to finally be able to call him that) will be a busy man at next month's 60th annual Cannes Film Festival. Although he may not have a film in competition, the "Departed" helmer will be presenting, teaching and announcing...

Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" was one of 26 international film selections announced Tuesday (June 27) for the Toronto International Film Festival. Typically one of the year's biggest pre-Oscar launching pads,...