Cannes 2010 Preview

Two years ago I sent daily blog reports from the belly of the beast that is the Cannes Film Festival. After a brief one-year sabbatical the summons has again been issued, the family must be left behind, and I must gird myself to face the creatures of the Croisette. On the other hand there's a new Mike Leigh, a new Takeshi Kitano, a last minute Ken Loach Iraq War movie, Route Irish, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, and even Oliver Stone's new Wall Street movie, a timely sequel to his often willfully misinterpreted 1987 diatribe against unfettered individualism . Hey, maybe there's some good there after all...