Cannes, 5/17.

Geoffrey Macnab will be covering deals for the Guardian and already has news of Lukas Moodysson's return to narrative with Mammoth and Charles Sturridge's Bronte, a biopic of the three literary sisters.

Updated.

And Charlotte Higgins quotes jury prez Stephen Frears: "The fact that there are no British films... is of no significance at all." Just a matter of timing; films that might've been in the Cannes lineup simply aren't ready yet. On a related note, "The revival in British film-making is certainly not down to me. A lot of very good films are made in the UK. Of course, we spend our lives working in a world dominated by American cinema. We keep going, half in resistance; though I love American films as much as anyone else. We have to live with [the domination of the US], and it makes it harder."

Eric Kohn sends a first dispatch into the New York Press.

At Filmmaker, Erica Abeel pauses for an overview and takes note of today's big event, a preview of Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie. More from Glenn Kenny and Jeffrey Wells.

Ted Z prefers this unofficial Cannes 2007 site to the official one.

IndieWIRE's first Atelier interview: Pablo Aguero (Salamandra, Argentina).

Updates: The deals, the parties! Eugene Hernandez, Peter Knegt and Ashley Adams keep up with it all at indieWIRE.

Cinematical's James Rocchi snaps some pix.

"Decisions, decisions," sighs Time's Richard Corliss. "That is the lot of a journalist covering the Cannes Film Festival, which is one part high art, the rest low hype. This morning, for instance, provided a wrenching dilemma. See the new film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, the world-renowned Taiwanese auteur of demanding minimalist dramas? Or attend a promotion for the DreamWorks computer-animated comedy Bee Movie, starring and thought up by Jerry Seinfeld? I went with the bees." Evidently, he really did, too.

More from the Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Kilday.

Charles Ealy is missing Roger Ebert and relates a couple of memories.

Another bee story? Seriously? But this one in a major paper? Sigh: Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.

Posted by dwhudson at May 17, 2007 7:42 AM