Spielberg, Hanks Fire Up French Film Fest
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It took a whistle-stop tour Saturday by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks to add some fizz to the Deauville Festival of American Cinema's 30th birthday party, a day after its low-key bow with a French film, Claude Lelouch's "Les Parisiens."
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PARIS  - Organizers of the first  International Festival of Cinema and Gastronomy, to take place  Nov. 17-21 in the Burgundy capital of Dijon, on Monday  announced a mouthwatering lineup of food-related movies and  culinary events.
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A slew of A-list actors like Kevin Spacey and Will Smith are vying for a part in Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg's new movie.
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Steven Spielberg is getting ready for his next close encounter.
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The critics in Cannes are a notoriously contentious bunch, but something close to a consensus has formed that this festival has new vitality at 60.
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Arts & entertainment: Event also plays host to new features from Ang Lee, Julian Schnabel, Sean Penn and Todd Haynes.
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A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
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AT THE opening day of the 61st Venice Film Festival yesterday, director Steven Spielberg offered a tribute to escapism, saying times of turmoil call for relief within darkened cinemas.
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Spielberg is in Paris to promote his new film The Terminal and to receive the award from the French president Jacques Chirac, who praised him as a &quot;great director&quot;.
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In what's been a good year for foreign films, France offers up two more but only one is truly dreamy
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MGM preemptively snapped up  all rights to Werner Herzog's much-anticipated Vietnam War  drama "Rescue Dawn," starring Christian Bale, during the  Toronto International Film Festival's first weekend.
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Two-time Cannes winner Emir  Kusturica brought a happy ending to the film festival on  Saturday with a boisterous Balkan romp, breaking the mould for  a competition full of dark tales.
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A film highlighting the story of North African soldiers in the French army in WWII looks set to intrigue the nation.
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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the Arab world.
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Escapist Hollywood movies are benefiting from the current sense of global crisis, the film-maker Steven Spielberg said yesterday. Speaking as his new film The Terminal launched the Venice film festival, Spielberg
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The Venice Film Festival is grappling with its perennial tag as the No. 2 movie extravaganza in Europe &#151; still a little brother to Cannes in terms of stars, marketing and buzz, even though it's older.
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Roman Polanski and the Coen brothers are among 35 movie-makers directing short films for the 60th Cannes festival.