Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, is one of several high profile American films going for the Palme d'Or at next month's Cannes Film Festival. While the official Cannes lineup, which was announced on Wednesday, April 23, includes...

3 stars (out of four) Sometimes, it takes only a moment to change a life--for better or worse. In Denis Dercourt's classical music thriller "The Page Turner," a little girl named Melanie Prouvost (Julie Richalet), who is playing piano in a jury...

2006 was a year of sober film remembrances -- for example, in the movies by Paul Greengrass ("United 93") and Oliver Stone ("World Trade Center") that looked back with sadness and anger at the 9/11 attack/disaster. It was a year also of technical...

If you're familiar with the films of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, "L'Enfant" will be either pleasantly familiar, or annoyingly so. The Belgian brothers' latest Palme d'Or winner and film-festival sensation is constructed out of the same combination of...

Many movies try to create the illusion of real life, but few succeed as well as "The Son" ("Le Fils") an unrelenting drama by Belgian brother Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne about a bereaved father and his confrontation with a tragic past. It's a movie...

CANNES, France—The Palme d'Or for best picture at the 55th Cannes Film Festival was awarded Sunday night to director Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," a devastating record of the Holocaust in Poland based on the memoir by survivor Wladislaw Szpilman....

Woody Allen's new movie, "Hollywood Ending," will open the 55th Cannes Film Festival, and French cineaste Claude Lelouch's "And Now ... Ladies and Gentleman" will close it. And in between, a host of familiar—and sometimes legendary —names from the ranks...

Friday May 30, 1997      Morality is a given in the movies; everyone, even the worst of creatures, knows if they're bad or good. In "La Promesse," an exceptional film from Belgium, all of that is reversed as a sense of right and wrong struggles to emerge...

Friday November 26, 1999      "Rosetta" grabs you by the throat and won't let go. It's a killer of a film about a desperate young woman, someone we're both terrified by and for, yet it's so finely empathetic and insightful it also tears at your heart....

In one of the more stunning and controversial Cannes Film Festival prize ceremonies in years -- one that drew boos and catcalls, along with a huge standing ovation for Spanish best director winner Pedro Almodovar -- the 1999 fest jury split four major...

- denotes a movie to watch. "Lost Souls" (director: Janusz Kaminski). More devilish doings, with Winona Ryder trying to save the world from the Satanic invasion of Ben Chaplin'sbody. The director is Spielberg's cinematographer and a local Columbia...

Maybe film festivals should just forget about big birthdays. Case in point: our own Chicago International Film Festival. Starting Wednesday (and running through Oct. 21), North America's oldest annual international cinema spree celebrates its Silver...