Cannes Film Festival 2016

Dressed in his signature camouflage pants and headband, Phil ‎Robertson, of “Duck Dynasty” fame, stood on the deck of a Riviera yacht here and poked at his dessert aux fraise with a tiny fork.

Film directors are well-known for sloughing off bad reviews, or saying they don’t read critics entirely.

The opportunity to make a feature film is, for most directors, the ultimate grail, a pearl without price, but for Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, it’s always been an offer he felt he had to refuse.

In 1990, Sarabjit Singh, a young farmer in rural Punjab, India, inadvertently strayed across the Indo-Pakistan border and disappeared.

For audiences familiar with the award-winning work of Chile’s Pablo Larraín, the protean writer-director of films such as “Tony Manero,” “No” and “The Club,” it will come as little surprise that even one of his more conventional-sounding pictures should turn out to be anything but.

The Cannes Film Festival hits its one-week mark Wednesday night, and while for some that sounds like an endless amount of time, for those at the fest -- where big movies from the likes of Paul Verhoeven, Sean Penn and Nicolas Winding Refn are yet to premiere -- that’s far from the end.

Inside the restricted press enclosure at the chic Majestic Beach restaurant, organized chaos is the rule as reporters, photographers, publicists, makeup artists and assistants, and supernumeraries without number hover like satellites around the blazing sun of celebrity.

As it reached a boiling point earlier this year, the #OscarsSoWhite movement and its proponents raised strong doubts about Hollywood’s willingness to address issues of equality.

Feminism on the big screen can come in many ‎forms.

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival does more than anoint the triumphs of the present, it also celebrates what’s transcendent in the past.

Chloe Sevigny is bringing a movie she directed to the Cannes Film Festival.

It may look like Woody Allen is a heat-seeking missile when it comes to young talent: Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Miley Cyrus, and Freida Pinto have been some of the millennial actors he’s hired in recent years.

“How much longer do I have to go?” Woody Allen asks, at once rhetorical and inevitably amusing.

Images from the 69th Cannes Film Festival

On Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, journalists at a news conference for “Café Society” refrained from asking writer-director Woody Allen about the elephant in the room: the publication earlier that day of an essay by Allen’s estranged son Ronan Farrow about the media’s approach to allegations of abuse by daughter Dylan Farrow.

An annual gathering of cinema’s best and brightest (and sometimes just loudest and luckiest), the Cannes Film Festival contains multitudes: studio blockbusters and low-budget discoveries, midnight horror-thrillers and cinephile documentaries, George Clooney and Isabelle Huppert, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Steven Spielberg.

Hollywood creatures abound in “Cafe Society,” Woody Allen’s new romantic dramedy set in 1930s Los Angeles, which opens the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night.

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival was notable for its English-language movies made by directors from non-English-speaking places, as selections such as “The Lobster,” “Sicario,” “Louder than Bombs,” “Tale of Tales” and “Youth” filled the selection.

CANNES, France – The morning of the day before the 69th Cannes Film Festival dawned dark and overcast, as if the skies were prepared to cry over the selection of films on tap.

George Miller is having a pretty good 2016.

Woody Allen is heading back to a very familiar place: opening night of the Cannes Film Festival.