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 CANNES, France (AP) - The 60th annual Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday as a celebration of celluloid and celebrity, with a lineup including George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Michael Moore and Quentin Tarantino.
Wong Kar-wai — a long-standing Cannes favorite — opens the festival Wednesday with "My Blueberry Nights," his first English-language film and the acting debut of singer Norah Jones, who stars as a heartbroken waitress alongside Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz.
The Hong Kong director is joined by several other returning Cannes veterans — four of the 22 directors competing for the coveted Palme d'Or have won the top prize before: Tarantino's gory "Death Proof" is in the running, as are the Coen brothers' Rio Grande thriller "No Country for Old Men," Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park" and "Promise Me This" from Sarajevo-born Emir Kusturica.
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