Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response

James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality. 1369518738

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Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'

Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic" 1369515636
Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize

An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival. 1369512069
Museum starts night tours of signs from Vegas past

The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. 1369506058
A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes

Jerry Lewis, so beloved in France, isn't quite overcome with emotion now that he's back at the Cannes Film Festival. 1369504620
Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes

Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre. 1369512069
Civil trial over Jackson's death focuses on AEG

A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:
Katrina-damaged La. theater goes for 1927 glory

With its grand arches, intricate plaster moldings, faux facades suggesting a centuries-old European villa and blue domed ceiling dotted by pinpoint lights, the Saenger Theatre was typical of the opulent movie palaces and playhouses built around the nation in the 1920s. 1369511769
A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes

For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics (Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita").
Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes

"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript - a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about.