Olivier Assayas

If the end of the world or your final film? is when you say what you really mean, perhaps with The Turin Horse, Béla Tarr is giving the last laugh to the Gypsies of his state-seized debut film (shot at age 16) and delivering a stone-cold classic.

The Dardenne brothers are an institution at Cannes: they have had several films in the competition in the last fifteen years, and have won the Palme d'Or twice: "We have a love story with Cannes."

There's been a lot of excitement about Olivier Assayas' Carlos, and it's not hard to see why. But here's my objection: In presenting a terrorist as an action hero, it glorifies terrorism as a legitimate path of political action.

At the age of 42, director Francois Ozon is known in the U.S. primarily for films such as 8 Women and Swimming Pool. A student of Eric Rohmer, he sees...

The reported death of the serious, small drama -- the kind of things that major studios used to do before opening-weekend grosses became all-important...