Live from Cannes: Movie Posters -- X-Files and More

The Cannes Film Festival got off to a kind of dark and depressing start, with two movies about the worst side of humanity screening. But hey, it wouldn't be a film festival without some nice movies about human suffering to brighten your day, right?

Seriously, though, we can see light-hearted rom-coms anytime; a festival like Cannes is where you go to see movies that make you ponder life, wax philosophical with friends about the use of voice-over in film and the deeper metaphorical meanings of this or that scene, and geek out over things like editing and cinematography.

Gallery: Cannes 2008 -- More Movie Posters

It's not all gloom and doom here, though. The weather was gorgeous today, the Croisette abounded with folks in black tie bustling to the Opening Night screening of Blindness (important safety tip: beware of enthusiastic older women in formalwear who practically knock you over in their attempt to get autographs from French celebs!), and, if you know where to look, there's plenty of reasonably priced, yummy food like delish sandwiches on the best bread ever, the French version of gyros (packed into a wrap and stuffed with french fries) and cute little shops where you can get a scoop of amazing gelato or sorbet to eat while strolling along.

And, of course, there are movie posters everywhere. They finally got finished building the X-Files poster display this afternoon, and I have some other posters to share with you as well. So look away, enjoy, and I'll be back after I grab a few hours sleep to put up a gallery of scene pics from around and about the fest.

Upcoming: Screenings tomorrow of Leonera, Kung Fu Panda, Three Monkeys, Hunger and Tokyo, plus a luncheon roundtable for Blindness director Fernando Meirelles, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, and Gael Garcia Bernal. Stay tuned!