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I consider myself a cineaste . Once, when I was in college, I watched a film that was not in English or Hindi.

CANNES, France - For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson.

On Tuesday, besieged with questions about The Great Senate Scandal, Stephen Harper didn't answer the questions that Canadians wanted answered.

CANNES, France - Academy award-winner Marion Cotillard gave her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse offering, "The Immigrant." The gritty drama, which premieres Friday at the Cannes Film Festival and is competing for the Palme d'Or, was filmed in part on ... (more)

As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the... The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.

He drove them to a secluded spot and stabbed them to death. Earlier Denise had told the wife-beater she was leaving him The anguish of Stephanie Stevenson is unimaginable.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde faces another day of questioning after being grilled for hours Thursday by French prosecutors who are deciding if she should be charged over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon during her time as finance minister.

A trip to space with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio raised 1.2 million euros for charity at a glitzy fundraiser at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.

The Cannes film festival was hit by a second jewelry heist on Thursday after a diamond necklace worth 2 million euros disappeared during a star-studded party, according to upmarket jeweler De Grisogono.

The heiress and reality star has signed with Cash Money Records, which is home to hitmakers Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Drake.

Georges Moustaki was introduced to Edith Piaf in the late 1950s and started to write songs for the Parisian star.

CANNES, France - Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food - appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella .

ORGANISERS of an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the twinning of Sunderland and Saint-Nazaire are appealing to the public to help bring it to life.

CANNES, France - Remember when someone tried to sue the makers and distributors of "Drive" for, I guess, not putting enough driving in the movie? Well, Ryan Gosling and writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn are back with another ultraviolent, ultra-stylized, music-throbbing, male-angsty viewing experience, this time set in the underworld of Bangkok, ... (more)

This salad, adapted from "Saveur Cooks Authentic French" , calls for the tiny gray-green legumes from Le Puy in the Haute-Loire region, but any small lentil can be used.

A member of the press looks at Picasso's painting 'Mousquetaire a l'epee assis' which is displayed next to Edouard Manet's 'Matador saluant' on October 6, 2008 in Paris, France.

Paris - France will invest about a 20m to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya was targeted by a car bomb in April, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival is taking its mission internationally as it honors one of the literary world's most acclaimed geniuses.

At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, where his movie is screening out of competition.

Plastic figurines depicting a female couple and a male couple are displayed for sale in Paris, France, April 27, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized there.