Worth reading for nice Festival de Cannes tidbits and perspective (not to mention some nice pix) is Jeffrey Wells' "Hollywood Elsewhere." The writer is everywhere, posting often, usually from the same table that indieWIRE's Brian Brooks has staked out in the busy American Pavilion:

I hate writing a daily column, but I love nailing it and doing it well when my energy's up and the synapses are firing away like the spark plugs inside the humming engine of Jimmy Stewart's The Spirit of St.Louis over the icy north Atlantic at 5 ayem. People seemed to be getting irritable yesterday, which I attribute to the fact that people always get irritable after going 18 hour days for seven says straight.