Cannes Film Festival 2008 News, Reviews, Buzz and Celebrity Photos

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Cannes Film Festival 2008

    Maryland villa, belonging to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is seen in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, southeastern France, May 2, 2008. U.S. actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, along with their four children, are staying at the villa until the start of the Cannes Film Festival, French newspaper Nice Matin reported. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)

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    Maryland villa, belonging to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is seen in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, southeastern France, May 2, 2008. U.S. actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, along with their four children, are staying at the villa until the start of the Cannes Film Festival, French newspaper Nice Matin reported. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)

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    Maryland villa, belonging to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is seen in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, southeastern France, May 2, 2008. U.S. actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, along with their four children, are staying at the villa until the start of the Cannes Film Festival, French newspaper Nice Matin reported. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)

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    Maryland villa, belonging to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is seen in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, southeastern France, May 2, 2008. U.S. actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, along with their four children, are staying at the villa until the start of the Cannes Film Festival, French newspaper Nice Matin reported. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE)

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    (FILES) A picture taken on May 17, 2008 shows French lawyer Jacques Verges arriving at the Festival Palace for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, southern France. Controversial French lawyer Jacques Verges is ready to defend Iraq's former deputy premier Tareq Aziz, currently on trial on charges of executing 42 Baghdad businessmen in 1992, his lawyer said on April 30, 2008. AFP PHOTO/ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)

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    (FILES)--Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe poses 24 May 2007 upon arriving at the Festival Palace in Cannes, southern France, for the premiere of US director Steven Soderbergh's film 'Ocean's 13' during the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Bahrain's Islamist-dominated parliament on April 29 2008 approved an urgent motion asking the government to ban a performance by Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe, known for her sexy looks and revealing outfits. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)

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    Gilles Jacob (L), president of the 61st Cannes Film Festival and Thierry Fremaux (R), general delegate of the festival, pose in front of the official poster after a news conference to announce the selection of competing films in Paris April 23, 2008. The festival runs through May 14 - 25, its jury being presided by actor and director Sean Penn. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)

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    The 61st Cannes Film Festival, held on the French Riviera from May 14-25, will host Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen among the Hollywood directors showing their work, and where the latest Indiana Jones adventure will also premiere, festival organizers announced in Paris on April 23, 2008. The official poster of the 61st Festival de Cannes is a work by Pierre Collier, a cinema poster artist, inspired by a photograph by David Lynch. REUTERS/Cannes Film Festival/Handout (FRANCE). FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.

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    Thierry Fremaux, general delegate of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, attends a news conference to announce the selection of competing films in Paris April 23, 2008. The festival runs through May 14 - 25, its jury being presided by actor and director Sean Penn. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)

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    Gilles Jacob (R), president of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Fremaux, general delegate of the festival, attend a news conference to announce the selection of competing films in Paris April 23, 2008. The festival runs through May 14 - 25, its jury being presided by actor and director Sean Penn. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier (FRANCE)

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