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...Croisette, the beach-front street that serves as the main artery for the Cannes Film Festival, is festooned with balloons of a dozen colors, dotting the cloudless sky. The display is a promotion for this year's premier feature, Peter Docter's Pixar film Up, shown in 3D (a first for Cannes opening night). But the balloons might also be celebrating the high expectations for the official slate of films at Cannes 2009. To paraphrase Stephen Colbert's frequently asked question about George W. Bush: Will this be a great Cannes? Or the greatest Cannes...
...Riviera film bash, which launches its 62nd official edition today, is really two, three, many festivals in one. For movie moneymen, it's the place to meet and haggle over the worldwide rights to new films. For the 1,500 international critics - yes, there still are that many left in a shrinking arts-news market - it's a giant screening room for hundreds of pictures, and a chance to get a jump on the rest of the world in discovering the hot new Romanian auteur. And for the celebrity hounds - the enormous paparazzi contingent and the locals who line...
...here as director of The Brave, a gorgeous, obscure Western in which he costarred with Marlon Brando, and which has been hard to find ever since. He's expected to return as part of the contingent promoting Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This is the film Heath Ledger was shooting when he died in Jan. 2008; Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell graciously stepped in to assume different aspects of the Ledger role. Fans here will greet Depp as an honorary Frenchman; his spouse-equivalent, and the mother of his two children, is singer-actress Vanessa Paradis...
...there's also a healthy representation of star directors known around the world. Ang Lee - whose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon premiered at Cannes before becoming the U.S.' all-time top-grossing foreign-language film not made by Mel Gibson - is back with Taking Woodstock. It's a quasi-fact-based tale about the seeds of the 1969 music festival; Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber and Comedy Central's Demetri Martin are the headliners...
...month often dominated by a Sam Raimi action film: his Spider-Man trilogy has earned $2.5 billion worldwide. But Raimi earned his early rep, or notoriety, with the low-budget gross-out Evil Dead horror films, and his Cannes entry, beguilingly titled Drag Me to Hell, marks a return to those dark roots...