French Film Director

French actor Judith Godreche has filed a complaint against film director Benoit Jacquot, accusing him of raping her in a relationship that began when she was 14 and he was 25 years her senior, her lawyer said Wednesday.

William Friedkin, director of the classic horror film The Exorcist, died on Monday at the age of 87. The cause of death has not been confirmed.

The director was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s and won five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.

21 films are competing for the top prize Palme d'Or, including a record seven women directors

The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday sought the dismissal of a rape case brought by an actress against acclaimed French film director Luc Besson, AFP learned from a judicial source.

In a one-on-one, ground-breaking French filmmaker Claire Denis throws light on the creative credo that drives her cinema, the impact Pather Panchali had on her as a child, the casting of Victor Banerjee in her most recent film and the experience of watching a Bollywood movie being shot in a Mumbai studio.

Bruised, actress Halle Berry's first film as director, is set in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA)

A French former model and actress on Friday accused Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, whose new film on the persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus premieres next week, of raping her in a Swiss ski resort when she was a teenager.

"It seems this second 'freemake' of Largo Winch is as bad as the first one," wrote Jerome Salle

Festival director Thierry Fremaux claimed that Cannes is above "this general obsession about the Oscars"

Director Nandita Das attended the screening of Manto at Cannes Film Festival with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and other team members

Today's Google Doodle celebrates French illusionist and film director Georges Melies, who led many technical developments in the earliest days of cinema and popularized the concept of narrative films.

Actor Dhanush has started shooting for his next film, titled The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir, directed by Canadian screenwriter and director, Ken Scott

In From the Land of the Moon, set just after World War II, Marion stars as a woman caught in an unhappy marriage who falls in love again. She also stars in It's Only the End of the World by French Canadian director Xavier Dolan

Other members are director Hany Abu-Assad, actress Zhang Ziyi, director Amma Asante, director Marielle Heller, director Katia Lund, director Malgorzata Szumowska, actress Alysia Reiner, National Humanities Medal honoree Henry Louis Gates and director Haifaa Al-Mansour

French actor Judith Godreche has filed a complaint against film director Benoit Jacquot, accusing him of raping her in a relationship that began when she was 14 and he was 25 years her senior, her lawyer said Wednesday.

William Friedkin, director of the classic horror film The Exorcist, died on Monday at the age of 87. The cause of death has not been confirmed.

The director was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s and won five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.

21 films are competing for the top prize Palme d'Or, including a record seven women directors

The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday sought the dismissal of a rape case brought by an actress against acclaimed French film director Luc Besson, AFP learned from a judicial source.

In a one-on-one, ground-breaking French filmmaker Claire Denis throws light on the creative credo that drives her cinema, the impact Pather Panchali had on her as a child, the casting of Victor Banerjee in her most recent film and the experience of watching a Bollywood movie being shot in a Mumbai studio.

Bruised, actress Halle Berry's first film as director, is set in the world of mixed martial arts (MMA)

A French former model and actress on Friday accused Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, whose new film on the persecution of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus premieres next week, of raping her in a Swiss ski resort when she was a teenager.

"It seems this second 'freemake' of Largo Winch is as bad as the first one," wrote Jerome Salle

Festival director Thierry Fremaux claimed that Cannes is above "this general obsession about the Oscars"

Director Nandita Das attended the screening of Manto at Cannes Film Festival with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and other team members

Today's Google Doodle celebrates French illusionist and film director Georges Melies, who led many technical developments in the earliest days of cinema and popularized the concept of narrative films.

Actor Dhanush has started shooting for his next film, titled The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir, directed by Canadian screenwriter and director, Ken Scott

In From the Land of the Moon, set just after World War II, Marion stars as a woman caught in an unhappy marriage who falls in love again. She also stars in It's Only the End of the World by French Canadian director Xavier Dolan

Other members are director Hany Abu-Assad, actress Zhang Ziyi, director Amma Asante, director Marielle Heller, director Katia Lund, director Malgorzata Szumowska, actress Alysia Reiner, National Humanities Medal honoree Henry Louis Gates and director Haifaa Al-Mansour