After glamorizing tobacco for decades, France is preparing for its most sweeping smoking ban yet.

When Richard Linklater first started thinking about making a film about the French New Wave, he figured he’d show it all everywhere except one place: France.

Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules of Hollywood as co-creator of “Bonnie and Clyde,” and later wrote and directed the sensitive domestic dramas “Kramer vs.

New films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

The pop icon and celebrated torch singer Marianne Faithfull has died.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

Highly influential French film director Jean-Luc Godard has died at age 91.

France paid tribute Thursday to screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo whom the French president portrayed as the nation’s Everyman in a solemn, touching national homage that drew applause and tears from fans, stars and the actor’s family.