The overindulgent — but undoubtedly significant — tradition of the standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival has sparked polarizing feelings among filmmakers, critics and industry executives alike.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Ah, the famed Venice Film Festival standing ovation. The famed standing ovation is often used as a metric for the quality of the highly-anticipated movies that premiere there. But, the amount of ...

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 ...

Jacques Audiard’s latest movie, the Spanish-language musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez, had its competition world premiere Saturday in Cannes, where it received a an ovation that lasted more than 11 ...

Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix soaked up the applause as Todd Phillips’ villainous musical sequel, “Joker: Folie à Deux” earned an 11-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday ...

Luke Barnett and Noam Kroll tell Future of Filmmaking about garnering close to a million views for a film they shot in two hours, and why they raced to ensure "The Studio" Season 2 didn't beat them to ...