Steven Soderbergh’s two pic Che bio and Clint Eastwood’s “The Changeling” look like potential standouts at a 61st Cannes Film Festival that may be a touch lighter on Yank Palme d’Or contenders but is heavy on Hollywood glam, thanks to multiple U.S. pics, both studio and indie, packing out many out-of-competition slots.
Soderbergh’s inclusion — [...]

The image of the French daredevil Philippe Petit, dancing across a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in James Marsh’s exhilarating documentary “Man on Wire,” is as rich a metaphor for the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival as you could imagine.
On Aug. 7, 1974, Mr. Petit, then 24, tiptoed onto a [...]

When it kicked off March 7, the South by Southwest Film Festival wasn’t necessarily in line for a watershed moment. The easygoing, jeans-and-beer atmosphere, which will come to an end Saturday, made for a casual set of films, interactive panels, a trade show and several raucous days of concerts.
But 2008 will long be marked as [...]

The top two American winners at the Sundance Film Festival put faces on at least three political hot buttons: Hurricane Katrina as it becomes something more than an act of nature, the collapse of the economy and illegal immigration.
Both Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble the Water, which won the documentary Grand Jury prize, and [...]

Morgan Spurlock’s left hand is bandaged up, the result of a snowboarding accident on his first day at the snow-covered Sundance Film Festival. Suffice it to say, that’s the only thing that’s gone wrong for him lately.
The charismatic “Super Size Me” star/ director/ guinea pig touched down in Park City knowing that his April film, [...]

 
Dublin-born heart-throb Colin Farrell says he was pleased to get a few laughs in his first dark comedy, which opened the Sundance Film Festival this week.
“I’m not known for having a funny bone in my body,” he told reporters the morning after the world premiere of award-winning playwright Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, about gangsters on [...]

 
The 24th annual Sundance Film Festival won’t be remembered for big sales, but it may be remembered as the year that buyers wised up.
At the festival’s halfway mark, the most talked-about titles are ones that came into Park City with neither cast nor buzz. Audiences are raving about “Ballast,” a drama set in the [...]

 
Filmmakers and dealmakers were just unpacking their parkas in Park City, Utah, on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival Thursday, when news of a potential breakthrough toward ending the 11-week-old Hollywood writers strike began to zoom from BlackBerry to BlackBerry.
The Directors Guild of America reached a tentative contract deal with studios addressing the [...]

 
When sales agent Andrew Herwitz brought “Live-In Maid” to the Sundance Film Festival three years ago, he hoped to land a quick sale, with the promise of the Spanish-language movie’s arriving in theaters a few months down the road. But as often turns out with the festival’s slighter movies, Sundance was just the start of [...]

Sundance says it wants a “webolution.” Just don’t look for it at the indie film fest’s website, which has slashed its online offerings even as internet video is taking off.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival, which opens Thursday in Park City, Utah, includes a panel called “Webolution” with Motion Picture Association of America chief Dan Glickman [...]