Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thierry Frémaux is not just the witty, wry, and sometimes controversial French artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. had its Wright brothers, France its "Light" brothers. A few years before Orville and Wilbur piloted the first flight, ...

"This extraordinary return to the origins of cinema also shows that the journey never stopped and the adventure continues. Cinema began here the same as we will always know it." Janus Films has ...

Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the toilet, nor was the company that bore his moniker the source for the name of a bodily function. And while John Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, will forever be ...

Today marks the anniversary of the earliest footage shot on Auguste and Louis Lumière's cinématographe, of workers leaving the Lumière factory in Lyon. Accompanying an illustration of the device, ...

David Thomson’s history of the movies from ‘Psycho’ to ‘Pretty Woman’ ...

All eyes are on Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux as he decides which films make the cut for the upcoming festival. Meanwhile, in his other job as head of the Institut Lumière, he directs film lovers’ gaze ...

Joel and Ethan Coen will be feted with the Lumière Award at the 18th edition of Thierry Frémaux’s classic film-focused Lumière Festival in Lyon in October. First working together on Blood Simple and ...

The 16 th edition of the Lumière Film Festival kicked off in high style, with a glittering lineup of stars including Benicio del Toro, Tim Burton, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Paradis plus high-profile ...