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CANNES, France (AP) — The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette. But the world's leading film festival can transform careers — something no one knows that better...

Updated: 14 hr ago

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland has landed another Hollywood film shoot and it could mean delays for motorists. The city warned drivers to be aware of staggered street closings beginning Saturday through June 18 to accommodate filming for the new Captain America film. Most of the affected streets...

Updated: 16 hr ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Half-moon hoops, double rims, chain-linked fences for out-of-bounds lines and no net that anyone can recall. Such is the imperfect urban landscape of playground basketball, what many consider the truest expression of the sport. It's basketball without referees, coaches or...

Updated: 17 hr ago

CANNES, France (AP) — It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" to the big screen. The film, an English language one from French director Arnaud Desplechin, made its premiere...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover. Actors Christoph Waltz and Daniel Auteuil were among guests being interviewed on the Canal Plus...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — Before "Fruitvale Station," Michael B. Jordan was glimpsed sporadically in supporting roles on TV shows like "The Wire" and "Friday Night Lights," and in films like "Chronicle" and "Red Tails." That changes emphatically with "Fruitvale Station," a Sundance hit that...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

CANNES, France (AP) — Two directors from countries with tough film censorship brought bold and probing movies to the Cannes Film Festival on Friday — one exploring China's social problems, the other delving into the mysteries of the human heart. Jia Zhangke's "A Touch of Sin" depicts facets...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

PARIS (AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials...

Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

PARIS (AP) — Police official: About $1 million in jewelry stolen from hotel room near Cannes Film Festival.

Kelly Jane Torrance

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

The first sign that "Stories We Tell" is not a typical documentary comes within its first few minutes. The young, blonde director, Sarah Polley, says to one of her subjects, as he's getting comfortably situated in the interviewing chair, that while she told him she was making a documentary, this...