Movies

As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.

Actress Audrey Tautou, known for her sweet and light roles in such films as "Amelie," praised the late director Claude Miller as a "bright and passionate" filmmaker who helped her turn in a darker direction in his final film.

The suits have knocked off the superheroes at the box office.

In a May 26 story about the film "Mud," The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of the film's director. His name is Jeff Nichols, not David Nichols.

Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.

Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.

Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker - a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."

The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."

"After Lucia" by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard.

The Cannes film festival on Saturday wrapped up the movies in competition wading deep in the Mississippi river with "Mud," a heart-wrenching, Mark Twain-influenced tale of a teenage boy searching for the meaning of life in a harsh world and starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.