3) The AFI list recognizes directors who have made significant contributions to cinema history. Most directors work long and hard to make just one film that is considered among the greatest of all ...

Great directors rarely have a perfect track record. Sometimes, a film from a luminary of the big screen is fine. On occasion, though, a vaunted director, a true near-legend or outright legend ...

Launched by the French Directors’ Guild in 1969 in the wake of the student and labor protests that disturbed — and ultimately shut down — the 1968 Cannes Film Festival — the Directors’ Fortnight ...

They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren. By Manohla Dargis In “Familiar Touch ...

Other films at the Cannes Film Festival include works by Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Julia Ducournau and the Dardenne ...