It's screening day in Cannes. Some 15 films screen roughly every hour and a half across the city. From red carpet affairs to the B-films on their last run in the market, films of all kinds sputter to life in every theatre and screening room, the magic of this festival....

There's a rhythm to the Cannes Film Festival. It's the rhythm caused by the restless bodies in endless line-ups, the stomach churn of too much wine and not enough food; laughter true and fixed; the dry clasp of hands when it means everything and when it means absolutely nothing. It's...

Cannes! The Riviera. The croissette. The sun, the sand, the celebrities...the movies. It's the 65th annual Festival de Cannes, a meeting place of filmmakers great and not-so-great. Ken Loach is here. David Cronenberg is here. So is Takashi-freakin'-Miike. For an independent filmmaker like me, it's as close to a real...