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Broken Embraces is like comfort food or your favorite meal at a restaurant: you pretty much know what you're getting and it is just as good whether its the 8th, 10th, 12th time around.

OPENING "Up," U.S., Pete Docter, Bob Peterson CLOSING "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky," France, Jan Kounen IN COMPETITION "Bright Star," Australia-U.K.-France, Jane Campion "Spring Fever,"...

Cannes launched their new website and a spanking brand new poster hours before the anticipated announcement of the films that will make up the 2009 edition. This year's one sheet (a banner that will litter the entire Croisette) is an homage to last year's dearly departed Michelangelo Antonioni and his masterwork l’Avventura.

Besides finding out that Michael Haneke's next will be presented in b&w, Variety's article of the titles that we should see announced in one week's time is a basic re-dotting of the i's and recrossing of the t's. The only speculation worth mentioning comes in the shape of the special screening and/or midnight slot status which may include Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" and Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell".

Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Alex Rivera's indie sci-fi flick "Sleep Dealer" found a distributor with Maya Entertainment. The film went on to nab the Alfred P. Sloan and Waldo Salt Screenwriting accolades.