Cannes: 15 Women Directors, Tame Dragons and Ryan Gosling's First Time

The abysmal state of affairs for female directors in Hollywood got a tiny glimmer of hope in Paris this week, as the Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup: a group including 15 female filmmakers (though only two are in the main competition this year).

Another quirky highlight from the 2014 fest is the world premiere of Lost River, the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling, who also wrote the bizarre tale of a single mom swept into a dark and twisted underworld (kind of like in Drive). Ben Mendelssohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Saoirse Ronan (The Host) and Gosling's main-squeeze-for-now Eva Mendes (and his co-star in The Place Beyond the Pines) also star in the film. Read more...