Create your own free news widgets.

Austrian auteur wins his first Palme d'Or with his parable of fascism, while Charlotte Gainsbourg takes best actress award for her role in Lars von Trier's AntichristIt has no musical score, it's filmed in black-and-white and it's long. But Michael Haneke's German language The White Ribbon gripped audiences in Cannes and tonight took the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.For many, it was the head-and-shoulders deserved winner. It tells the story of strange goings-on in a repressed and maliciously nasty northern German village shortly before the first world war. Like many films at this year's festival, it was two and a half hours long. Unlike others, it did not feel like it.It was the Austrian auteur's first Palme d'Or, though not his first Cannes prize. He is best known in the UK for his English-language remake last year of his 1997 horror movie Funny Games, and two years before he had one of his biggest successes with Hidden, starring Juliette Binoche.Charlotte Gainsbourg took the

The search for new homes for two impoverished child stars from the hit movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' has intensified, as one child fell sick days after city authorities demolished the shanty where she lived, family members said.

How does Pixar continue to do it? 'It' being put out quality films that spring from simple, straightforward stories that are designed to engage all age groups, aren't offensive, are...

Elizabeth Hurley sacrificed her movie career to concentrate on raising her six-year-old son.

When rock band U2 played at the Grand Palais of the Cannes film festival in 2007 to trumpet their new three-dimensional concert movie, backers of modern 3-D films hailed the coming of a new era in movies.

Movie star Josh Brolin is set to take on a leading tabloid over allegations he is cheating on his wife and spent the night with a fan. ...

Austrian director Michael Haneke hugs the president of the jury French actress Isabelle Huppert after being awarded with the Palme d'Or for his movie 'Das Weisse Band' (The White Ribbon) during the Closing Ceremony of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on Sunday in Cannes, southern France. (Photo: ANTONIN THUILLIER/AFP/Getty Images)

When rock band U2 played at the Grand Palais of the Cannes film festival in 2007 to trumpet their new three-dimensional concert movie, backers of modern 3-D films hailed the coming of a new era in movies.

Up, the brilliantly funny, sad, surreal story of an old geezer who hooks 10,000 balloons to his house and flies to South America, is Pixar's 10th animated feature.

The DVD world is divided into eight regions (six major geographical regions and two special use regions). According to some, this is a means of providing copyright protection and preserve international film distribution arrangements, as well as prevent "illegal" copying. However, is it also a plot by movie companies to command higher prices for DVDs overseas?