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A long time ago in a galaxy far away, the maverick Chilean-born film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky dreamed of making an epic, hallucinatory adaptation of Frank Herbert 's best-selling science-fiction saga Dune .

Perhaps no filmmaker has fetishized male brutality with the monomaniacal focus of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn .

Brash and exuberant, the opening movie of the 66th festival has divided critics, but its director is upbeat about audience response It has divided the critics, who have either praised it for its exuberant, operatic, roaring approach to its material - or derided as a crass, tin-eared rendering of F Scott Fitzgerald 's precisely tuned text.

By Donald Clarke Cast a quick glance about Cannes tonight and you could be forgiven for deducing that Hollywood bosses the world's greatest film festival.

Leonardo DiCaprio has described the Cannes Film Festival as an "insane experience" but also hailed it as the "mecca for the world to celebrate filmmaking". The 66th Cannes festival kicks off this week with Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, a 3-D extravaganza starring Leonardo, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

When the 66th Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday, it'll do so with a big bash of a movie, not in competition, already up and running in the U.S.: Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Carey Mulligan was born on May 28, 1995 in Westminster, London, England. Born into a middle class working family, Mulligan led a rather uneventful childhood.

Cannes brings out Tinseltown's fun, flirty side. As soon Hollywood's biggest stars feel that Riviera sand between their toes they shed some of their film star reserve.

For 12 days every year, the French Rivera resort town turns into one giant seaside swirl of glamour, high art and backroom deal-making. Like some sun-drenched phantasm, all of cinema comes alive in Cannes: its serious ambitions, bottom-line commerce and crass spectacle.

Bloom time: This is Mother's Day, and what mother doesn't enjoy flowers? That brings us to the University of Tennessee Garden's Blooms Days 9 a.m.-5 p.m. today.

The much-anticipated 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire, hit theaters May 10.

"Gatsby" is not in the quest for the Palme, but behind the razzmatazz of its European premiere, Luhrmann is under pressure to deliver F. Scott Fitzgerald's Roaring Twenties classic to a new generation.

The esteemed 12-day Cannes Film Festival hasn't even started yet - it runs from May 15 until May 26 - and while a slew of films will probably get bought up during the festival, deals are already being made almost a week before it opens.

But if women around the world were wanting to impress Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling, just don't offer him a bowl of cereal.

Drill down into the many mysteries surrounding Jay Gatsy , the hero of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's great American novel, and you'll find at their source Daisy Buchanan - and that beguiling green light at the end of her pier.

Ryan Gosling is one of the hottest leading men in Hollywood, but he's also an Internet darling.

Last night The Colbert Report was the inaugural episode of cOlbert's Book Club featuring a discussion about F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby .

Ryan Gosling, killer whales, Deep Throat or WikiLeaks. What are the movies that will spark the biggest, most passionate conversations at this year's Sydney Film Festival? At any film festival, there are always sessions that get people talking.

When Only God Forgives premieres next month at Cannes, listen carefully. Some films are employing very strange instruments to get the sounds they want How does it sound? It creates "a unique sense of melancholy and foreboding", says Cliff Martinez, the ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer who worked with Nicolas Winding Refn on the soundtracks for ... (more)

New York -- Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, copresidents of the Weinstein Co.'s RADiUS multiplatform label, leavened a serious business discussion at the On Demand Summit with an intoxicating blast from the French Riviera.