'Cannes you put a price on your dreams?'

My brain and heart are 3,990 miles away. If you have several minutes to spare you might want to check out this video of the Cannes ceremony. If you speak French you'll have more fun but even if you don't the montage of films showing at Cannes (14 - 22 minute mark) is still intriguing.You can see brief cuts from Bright Star, Emmanuelle Devos in L'Origine (Je l'adore), Broken Embraces, Spring Fever and many more including a bit from Heath Ledger in the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus "Do you dream? Or should I say 'Can you put a price on your dreams?' "

A little kid in a Michael Haneke movie?!? Poor kid.
What horrific, psychologically distorting fate awates him?

Cannes over the weekend... for those of you who've been offline
Roger Ebert "fings ain't wot they used t'be" - lovely piece
Bright Star scrapbook. Jane Campion has such an eye
IFC Daily Strong response to Mother, from The Host director Bong Joon-ho

LA Times Doctor Parnassus still waiting for buyer. The last film of Heath Ledger and a f***ing Terry Gilliam movie with major stars and they don't want it? I will always love the cinema as an artform but as a business it sometimes seems like a malevolent soul crushing destroyer
In Contention joins the chorus singing that Cannes competition lineups need to be riskier than just 'insert 20 famous auteurs'
Getty Tilda Swinton & Agnès Varda of the avant-garde
IndieWire Lars Von Trier does it again with Antichrist. Boos and applause at the premiere
Spoutblog Lars Von Trier does it again for Antichrist. Quotable egomania

I am the best filmmaker in the world

I know it's too much to ask that all directors be as brilliant as Lars Von Trier. But why can't they all be this entertaining?

Cheeky Dafoe, 'the best filmmaker in the world' (?) and sweet Charlotte Gainsbourg

too much Cannes? These posts have never been to France.
PopWrap Shia Labeouf overshares with Playboy
Topless Robot Star Trek = Star Wars. It's Benji Button = Gump all over again
Lazy Eye Theater Remembering Royal Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums
BoingBoing Twitter graph -- how topics get played out. hee
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