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72nd Cannes Film Festival - Photocall after Closing ceremony - Cannes, France, May 25, 2019. Antonio Banderas, Best Actor award winner for his role in the film

Banderas wins Cannes 'best actor' as Almodovar alter ego

CANNES, France — Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has portrayed Zorro and Pablo Picasso but he is above all the go-to actor of Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar, who launched his hugely successful film career in Spain in the early 1980s.And it was the 58-year-old's nuanced portrayal of Almodovar's alter ego in the director's "Pain & Glory" that won him the best actor award at the Cannes film festival — his first major awardSporting Almodovar's spiky hair and colorful clothes, he plays the movie's central character, an aging Spanish director who is plagued by physical and psychological frailty who revisits childhood memories.Almodovar, 69, has repeatedly said Banderas gives the "best performance of his life" in the film, which ran in...

May 26, 2019

Banderas wins Cannes 'best actor' as Almodovar alter ego

South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho celebrates during a photo-call after he won the Palme d'Or for the film

South Korea hails Bong Joon-ho's top prize win at Cannes

SEOUL — South Korea on Sunday hailed Bong Joon-ho's Cannes film festival win for "Parasite", saying it had left a historic footprint as the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or.The top prize win by "Parasite", a black comedy about a family of clever scammers from South Korea's underclass, was a unanimous choice by the nine-person jury at the renowned festival.It was the first big international prize for Bong, the maker of the hugely acclaimed "The Host" and "Snowpiercer", who became the first Korean in the 72-year history of Cannes to scoop the coveted award.South Korean President Moon Jae-in congratulated Bong for the prize, adding the passion of the "Parasite" staff had created national pride in the country's cinema...

May 26, 2019

South Korea hails Bong Joon-ho's top prize win at Cannes

French actress and film director Mati Diop poses during a photo-call with her trophy after she won the Grand Prix for her film

Diop makes history as first black woman to win big at Cannes

CANNES, France — The first black women director ever to compete for the top prize at Cannes in its 72-year history took its second prize Grand Prix Saturday for her haunting ghost story about African migrants.Mati Diop, 36, grew up in France and belongs to a Senegalese artistic dynasty that includes her uncle, acclaimed director Djibril Diop Mambety, and her father, musician Wasis Diop.She said after the red-carpet premiere of "Atlantics" that it was while she was making a short film in Senegal a decade ago that she began to wrestle with the tragic push-and-pull factors leading Africans to flee the continent."I was spending time in Dakar at the time and was struck by the complex and sensitive realities of the phenomenon we called at the time 'illegal...

May 26, 2019

Diop makes history as first black woman to win big at Cannes

Ladj Ly, Emily Beecham, Bong Joon-ho, Antonio Banderas pose on stage at Cannes on Saturday. — Reuters

Cannes 2019 film festival winners

Cannes, France — Following is a list of the prize-winners at the 72nd Cannes film festival:- Palme d'Or: "Parasite" by Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)- Grand Prix: "Atlantics" by Mati Diop (France)- Jury Prize: "Les Miserables" by Ladj Ly (France) and "Nighthawk" by Kleber Mendonca Filho (Brazil)- Best director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) for "Young Ahmed"- Best actress: Emily Beecham (Britain) for "Little Joe"- Best actor: Antonio Banderas (Spain) for "Pain and Glory"- Special mention: "It Must Be Heaven" by Elia Suleiman- Best screenplay: "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" by Celine Sciamma (France)

May 25, 2019

Cannes 2019 film festival winners

US film director Quentin Tarantino (2nd R) jokes with photographers while posing with US actor Leonardo DiCaprio (L), Australian actress Margot Robbie (2ndL) and US actor Brad Pitt during a photocall for the film

The big unforgettable moments at Cannes

CANNES, France — The Cannes film festival serves up 12 days of movie magic on the French Riviera each May.Here are the biggest moments, on and off screen, that have made 2019 a vintage year:Tarantino ovationTwenty-five years after he ripped up the rule book for independent cinema with his Palme d'Or-winning "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino returned to Cannes with one of his best-reviewed films in years.The world premiere of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", a dark fairytale set in the Tinseltown of 1969, sparked frenzied scenes of festival-goers rushing to catch the first glimpse of the movie.When it was all over, the director and his stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie basked in a rapturous six-minute standing ovation.A visibly moved Tarantino...

May 25, 2019

The big unforgettable moments at Cannes

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein returns to the State Supreme Court in New York, after a break in a pre-trial hearing over sexual assault charges in this April 26, 2019 file photo. — AFP

Weinstein reaches deal to settle civil proceedings for $44 million: Report

NEW YORK — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has reached a provisional $44 million settlement with alleged victims and creditors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.The deal, which has not yet been signed, aims to cover all civil proceedings filed against the fallen Hollywood mogul, including those in Canada and the United Kingdom.Weinstein's spokesperson denied to comment.The settlement does not exempt Weinstein from the criminal proceedings brought against him for sexual assault, for which he will go on trial in September.Weinstein — a catalyst for the #MeToo anti-harassment movement — has been charged over the alleged assaults of two women and faces life in prison if he is convicted at the trial, which could last five weeks.In addition to the alleged...

May 24, 2019

Weinstein reaches deal to settle civil proceedings for $44 million: Report

US actor Sylvester Stallone poses during a photocall for

Rocky star Stallone says he never expected to make it in movies

CANNES, France — Action movie superstar Sylvester Stallone told cinema-goers in Cannes on Friday that he never expected to make it in the film industry due to an accident at birth that caused him to slur his words — now one of his more celebrated trademarks.The US actor, 72, rocketed to fame in 1976 with his Oscar-winning boxing movie "Rocky" and went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest action stars through the "Rocky" and "Rambo" and film franchises.But Stallone said that when he was starting out, his speech impediment had stumped filmmakers and fellow actors like "Terminator" star Arnold Schwarzenegger."I didn't think I was going to (have a career in film)," Stallone said during the Cannes Film Festival, where he was...

May 24, 2019

Rocky star Stallone says he never expected to make it in movies

High school student poets listen to a poem about climate change in the New School auditorium as they prepare for final auditions for

US teen poets find no rhyme or reason to climate peril

By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK — "The ice caps are melting to blue — but don't you know that affects us too?" recited Jordan Sanchez, rehearsing her lines outside the New York City auditorium where she would deliver them on stage later that day."I see myself holding my daughter named Love and I see her first breaths being contaminated with pollutants," declaimed Otaniyuwa Ehue, 18, another participant in the climate change-inspired poetry competition. "Maybe I won't have a daughter."Like Sanchez and Ehue, scores of teenagers have been writing poems about global warming in a bid to perform them this June in one of New York City's legendary venues, The Apollo Theater.In a process mildly evocative of the American Idol TV singing competition, the 20...

May 24, 2019

US teen poets find no rhyme or reason to climate peril

US actress Pamela Anderson, right, and her son Brandon Thomas Lee pose as they arrive on Thursday for the amfAR 26th Annual Cinema Against AIDS gala at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, southern France, on the sidelines of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. — AFP

Tom Jones, Pamela Anderson crank up the glamour at Cannes fundraiser for AIDS

CAP D'ANTIBES, France — From Pamela Anderson to Dua Lipa, the great and good of the movie and music world mingled at the Cannes Film Festival's most glamorous fixture on Thursday night, a fundraiser for AIDS research where stars including Mariah Carey were set to perform.Reality TV star and model Kendall Jenner, actors Antonio Banderas and Andie MacDowell, and designer Tommy Hilfiger were among guests at the swanky AmfAR dinner on the French Riviera, put on by the US-based Foundation for AIDS Research.Attendees and AmfAR representatives said this year's event, also set to feature a performance by crooner Tom Jones, was particularly poignant, following medical breakthroughs in trying to find a cure for AIDS.An HIV-positive man in Britain became the second known adult worldwide...

May 24, 2019

Tom Jones, Pamela Anderson crank up the glamour at Cannes fundraiser for AIDS

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver marks 'Alien' anniversary:'I thought it was a small movie'

LOS ANGELES, California — Sigourney Weaver was an unknown 28-year-old stage actress when she landed the role of Ripley in director Ridley Scott's now classic sci-fi horror movie "Alien."Ripley, the sole survivor of an attack by an alien who infiltrates a space ship, turned out to be one of the most powerful and well-loved female protagonists in science fiction, celebrated by fans as a tough, complex heroine. But she was originally written as a man."I thought it was a small movie," Weaver said ahead of the 40th anniversary of the film's release. "It had a tiny cast and a brilliant young director. I liked the part ... I didn't think I was going to play Henry V, but I thought I can play Ripley."The movie follows the crew of the space craft Nostromo...

May 24, 2019

Sigourney Weaver marks 'Alien' anniversary:'I thought it was a small movie'

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