The two highest honors a filmmaker can receive are the Academy Award and Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. The Oscar has clout, the Palme d’Or éclat. Both signal peer recognition of jobs superbly ...

One of the most repellent phrases in the English language is “Oscar buzz.” The nattering about contenders for the Academy Awards begins more than a year before Oscar night, at Sundance; it balloons at ...

Matthias Schoenaerts and Marion Cotillard in "Rust and Bone." Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a tough guy, both inside and out. At least, he acts as if he is. So tough that he gets into street fights ...

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Co-written by Audiard and Thomas Bidegain (who also ...