Cannes Film Festival

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New Richard Avedon documentary chronicles how he shaped the evolution of photography

Ron Howard's documentary, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is enjoyable even as it treads well-worn ground and repeats familiar anecdotes

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In the new film Nagi Notes, art is a vessel for characters’ desires

Japanese writer-director Koji Fukada’s new film, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is set in a remote town where artmaking is central to many residents’ lives

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In The Mastermind, an art heist’s aftermath unfolds against the backdrop of Vietnam War-era America

The new film by Kelly Reichardt, which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, centres on the theft of four paintings from a fictional Massachusetts museum in 1970

Self-taught artist’s erotic needlepoint provides spark in film about gallery assistant’s slow, searching summer

Film-maker Lucio Castro’s new feature, “Drunken Noodles”, is set in part in a Manhattan gallery and just premiered in Cannes

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Interview: Why Mike Leigh turned to art

The British director on his acclaimed big-screen portrait of Turner—and the artist’s “box of tricks”