Cannes, 5/20.

More entries devoted to individual films are lining up, but in the meantime, a few general items, starting with a list of blogs to bookmark or feed your RSS reader throughout the festival in Cannes:

• Mike D'Angelo at Nerve.

• James Christopher, Wendy Ide and Simon Crerar of the London Times.

• Richard and Mary Corliss for Time.

• Matt Dentler, Eugene Hernandez and Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE.

• Scott Foundas for the LA Weekly.

• George the Cyclist is back at Rashomon. Matt Langdon notes, "He rode in on an airplane to Paris early in May and spent a couple weeks biking down 500 miles to Cannes."

• Premiere's Glenn Kenny.

• Blogging for the San Francisco Bay Guardian are Gary Meyer and Jesse Ficks. Meyer programs the Balboa and Ficks programs Midnights of Maniacs at the Castro.

• Jeffrey Wells, tracking the fest and the news back home at Hollywood Elsewhere.

Moira Sullivan celebrates "The Sacred Feminine in Cannes."

In the Los Angeles Times, Deborah Netburn lists "9 Things You Didn't Know About Cannes."

Among Charlotte Higgins's Cannes notes for the Guardian is news of a feature in the works starring the Arctic Monkeys. Also, politics; Patrick Barkham on the odds of the Palme d'Or contenders, according to online gamblers - and blanc, rose pastille, rose, blue and yellow: Xan Brooks explains the press pass system.

IndieWIRE's most recent L'Atelier du Festival interviews: Don't Let Me Drown director Cruz Angeles and Scar director Teboho Mahlatsi.

Horror's on the rise at Cannes, on screen and in the market, notes Eric J Lyman in the Hollywood Reporter.

Posted by dwhudson at May 20, 2006 4:15 PM