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Preparations - The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival 2018: reviews, news, and analysis

France’s prestigious Festival de Cannes runs May 8 through 19.

Contributors: Alissa Wilkinson

For more than seven decades, everyone who’s anyone in the film world has migrated to the French Riviera in May for the Cannes Film Festival, which combines star-studded red-carpet premieres with long days of screenings, meetings, networking, and parties.

The festival’s 71st installment runs from May 8 to 19, and its programming slate features premieres for Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ramin Bahrani’s adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, starring Michael B. Jordan, Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited and possibly cursed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and many more.

16 Total Updates Since
Apr 13, 2018, 2:50pm EDT
  • May 14, 2019

    Why the Cannes Film Festival matters (and how to pronounce it)

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Cannes plays host to the most prestigious film festival in the world. There's a reason.

  • February 1, 2019

    Arctic is a pure distillation of the man vs. nature genre

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    It’s Mads Mikkelsen versus the Arctic wilderness in first-time director Joe Penna’s arthouse survival film.

  • December 21, 2018

    Cold War, a decades-spanning romance, will break your heart

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    And you’ll love it.

  • August 9, 2018

    Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman draws a ham-fisted line from white supremacy’s past to its present

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    And it lets white audiences off the hook.

  • May 25, 2018

    Solo: A Star Wars Story is the safest, most forgettable Star Wars movie

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    The box-ticking approach to filling out Han Solo’s backstory is distinctly unimaginative.

  • May 25, 2018

    Why Christopher Nolan “unrestored” 2001: A Space Odyssey

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    The director made his first trip to Cannes to present the new print, which is now playing in cities around the US.

  • May 22, 2018

    9 standout Cannes movies you’ll be hearing about this year

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    From the praised to the provocative, these films will be part of this year’s conversation.

  • May 21, 2018

    This year’s Cannes Film Festival was a plea against complacency

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Artistic freedom and ideological oppression took center stage at cinema’s most prestigious festival.

  • May 19, 2018

    The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’s long, possibly cursed journey to the big screen, explained

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Twenty years of catastrophes, from funding failures to mudslides, may finally be coming to an end for director Terry Gilliam.

  • May 18, 2018

    The twisted “Under the Silver Lake” injects paranoia into its gleeful neo-noir pastiche

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Andrew Garfield stars in a wild tale about hipsters at the end of history.

  • May 17, 2018

    The new Pope Francis documentary is a lucid portrait of a quiet radical

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Steering away from hagiography, Wim Wenders’s Pope Francis — A Man of His Word presents a stirring case for the pope’s theology.

  • May 14, 2018

    Cannes leaders just signed a landmark pledge for gender equity in the film industry

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Some of world cinema’s most important figures kicked off a campaign to bring greater transparency and parity to their field.

  • May 13, 2018

    82 women protested gender inequity in the film industry on the red carpet at Cannes

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Led by Cate Blanchett and Agnes Varda, on Saturday women called for change in their industry.

  • May 11, 2018

    Leto, directed by an outspoken Putin critic, is a tribute to the Soviet underground rock scene

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    Kirill Serebrennikov is under house arrest while his punk movie musical premieres at Cannes.

  • May 9, 2018

    How the Cannes Film Festival hopes to navigate the post-Weinstein era

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    The prestigious festival’s opening day was marked by discussions about gender parity and #MeToo.

  • April 13, 2018

    Netflix vs. Cannes: What it means for cinema

    By Alissa Wilkinson

    The streaming giant won’t be sending its movies to the world’s most prestigious film festival this year, for dubious reasons.

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