The Cannes Film Festival means many different things to many different people — from masterpiece movies to not-so-well-regarded ones, from glitz and glamour to sometime controversy. In the latter ...

Somewhere between a film’s final scene and the exalted audience’s first clap at either the Venice or Cannes film festivals, cinema loses its dignity. We have entered a standing ovation arms race. What ...

When “Joker: Folie à Deux” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, the audience erupted into a standing ovation that lasted 11 minutes, according to Variety. The Hollywood Reporter clocked ...

The Cannes Film Festival is designed to showcase the best of the best upcoming movies, meaning it's not surprising that many films shown there are met with praise and celebration. But in the decades ...

The latest installment in George Miller's celebrated action franchise debuted Wednesday night. By Scott Feinberg, Aaron Couch 'Furiosa' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the ...

Kevin Costner‘s Western epic Horizon: An American Saga had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, getting an 11-minute, 40-second ovation after the credits began rolling at the ...

It is once again film festival season at home and abroad. The Venice International Film Festival began last week, and Telluride got chugging along in Colorado shortly thereafter. Soon TIFF comes for ...

What’s a normal amount of time to clap? Off the top of my head, I’d say 15 seconds. A minute or two if it’s a particularly rapturous standing ovation. But there is somewhere in the world where ...