Cannes brings working class heroes to screens
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Two films at the Cannes film  festival portray how the lack of jobs, money and social  recognition in Europe can drive men to desperation.
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CANNES, France  - Several critics are tipping a hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted Palme d'Or at Sunday's Cannes Film Festival awards although most say this year's race is tough to call.
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The nominees for best foreign-language film are politically charged and artistically successful.
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Film festivals pride themselves on  discovering cinematic gems from around the world that the  public would never see otherwise.
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Two films from Latin America caused a last-minute stir at the Cannes Film Festival &amp;#151; one a riveting tale of escape from a secret Argentine prison and the other a terrifying, bloody fairy tale.
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At the Berlin International Film Festival, the subjects range from Abu Ghraib to the Rolling Stones.
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A hard-hitting Romanian movie  set toward the end of the Communist era won the Cannes Film  Festival&#39;s top honor on Sunday.
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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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CANNES, France  - French director Catherine Breillat typified a trend at the Cannes film festival by casting unknowns who had never acted before in "Une vieille maitresse".
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Cannes still parties hard, but there's a velvet rope everywhere you turn.
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Films from AgnÃ¨s Jaoui and Mike Leigh are among those screening at the 42th New York Film Festival.
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Landing a role in a Bollywood film is  the stuff of dreams for hundreds of young Indian men and women  who knock on doors of filmmakers for years without luck.
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The nation's low-budget films, imbued with the residue of communism, are wowing critics and audiences.
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The third annual Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles last weekend offered neophyte outsiders the chance to become Oscar-track insiders.
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CANNES, France  - When director Pedro Almodovar was named hot favorite to triumph at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, he called it a curse after he failed to win.
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LOS ANGELES  Â Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards.
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It is the world&#39;s greatest film  festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that  doesn&#39;t mean they all have fun at Cannes.