Alec Baldwin met with journalists at Cannes to talk about the new documentary he just starred in, directed by his now good buddy James Toback, Seduced and Abandoned.

The star dedicated much of the conversation not to the film, but to his new relaxed approach to life, given what he...

I admit I only went to see the HBO movie Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight here at Cannes as a chance to speak afterwards to director Stephen Frears, who is always a punchy pleasure to interview, what with his curmudgeon biting humor and bright pinpointing eyes.

I met Richard Dreyfuss, the engaging actor known for his roles in in the Spielberg films Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (and a hundred other films) in his suite at the Marriott to discuss his upcoming movie, Cas & Dylan, directed by Jason Priestley, the story...

"Boy that was so good!" said a fellow journalist coming out of the premiere of Claire Denis' Bastards in the Grand Lumiere theater.

"The film?" I said.

"No, the people in the audience! Imagine: Catherine Deneuve, Costa-Gavras, Amat Escalante...."

In fact, people who were not stars were the...

As usual with a Nicolas Winding Refn movie, his new film Only God Forgives, which just premiered at Cannes this morning, is rhythmically exciting, with cool mood music (composed by the amazing Cliff Martinez) accentuating the beat. The story: constant revenge, back and forth, between two American drug lords (brothers)...

A longtime traveler to Mexico, until a run-in with drug lords who happened to be managing my empty "hotel" (I the only guest in a 300 room money-laundering sprawl of concrete), I decided to drop the fear, and return to Puerto this summer.

That is, until I saw Amat Escalante's...

It is the creepiest film in the Cannes Competition: Dutch director Alex Von Warmerdam's Borgman. The story of a charmingly peculiar tramp (Borgman) who enters a bourgeois home and progessively, with the help of a couple cohorts, kills a few in the entourage, the violence is not the disturbing aspect...

The story is as simple and clean as director Kore-eda's filmmaking style: an upper class couple discovers that their beloved child, aged five, is actually not their own. The child had been swapped at birth in the hospital with another. What follows is the drama of what will the parents...

There is always one film that reminds me why make all the effort to go to Cannes: this year (so far) it is the Iranian film The Past by Asghar Farhadi, the director who made the acclaimed A Separation a couple years back. The story of an Iranian man who...

Francois Ozon almost charmed me into liking his new film Young and Beautiful which premiered this week at Cannes, what with his easy grin, quick wit, and snazzy outfit (navy jacket and chic blue-white scarf tossed around his neck), but the subject matter--voluntary prostitution-- is too charged a subject to...

It is not the first time that we are privy to Sofia Coppola's obsession with conspicuous consumption--take her previous film Marie Antoinette--but her new film The Bling Ring has materialism as its very subject, to the point that consumer goods are filmed...

Famed Italian neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, one of the discoverers of "mirror neurons", straddles many fields of knowledge in his pioneering research. An opera fan as well as neuroscientist, he has collaborated with some of the greatest luminaries in the humanities, from linguist George Lakoff to English professor Hannah Wojciehowski, to...

People come to Fuerteventura to escape: to escape the cold climate of mainland Europe in the winter. Many don't go back. It was hard for me to encounter a local Majorero here on this Spanish Canary Island, one hundred kilometers off the coast of Africa: unless one considers Albanians, Italians,...

British director Bart Layton's The Imposter, which screened recently to popular acclaim at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, takes up the incredible story of a 23-year-old Frenchman who pretends to be the 14-year-old missing child of a Texan family and manages to convince his supposed siblings and mother...

"I need a little respect and dignity in my life!" screams out a Finnish punk rocker with cerebral palsy, member of a band of mentally handicapped musicians. This line, from the documentary The Punk Syndrome, could be the refrain of many of the films...

I met the laughing jolly director of the Brilliant Stars International School in her office: she, so warm and smiling, had a crying child in her arms, whom she was consoling. "Your Mom will be picking you up soon, darling!" she said. She spoke in such an articulate...

The familiar smell of dust, the gasoline, the honking rickshaws, the sway of the Indian women's dress, the nod sideways to say yes, the walk along the broken stones of the highway, fearing falling into the passing motorcycles, the cars going both ways at once... and the colors of all...

Angelika gaily stepped out to meet me at the entrance to her orphanage, lithesome in a simple white shirt and blue skirt, her long blonde hair bobbing behind her. "Welcome!" she said, with a light laugh, as she led me into the hall where a few of the boys studied...

New Year's Eve began on Monkey Rock, the mountain slab overlooking the northern Sri Lankan countryside, with lush jungle trees, lakes and rice paddies as far as the eye can see. Nigel, our British yoga teacher, led us through his beautifully crafted eclectic combo of tai chi and Hatha yoga,...

"Every nightclub must have a story," enthused globe-trotter nightclub entrepreneur Cyril Peret as he leads me around his new club, Titty Twister, off the Champs Elysées in Paris. The energy of this man dazzles as he grins and guides me through this sunken nightclub, filled with black retro Chesterfield couches,...