The Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off today. Of course, we don’t have a correspondent covering the festival for you because we are a low-rent site and Cannes wouldn’t clear us for press coverage. So instead, we will be bringing you the best of Cannes coverage from throughout the web.

Green Cinema has a nice dispatch from J. Sperling Reich who discusses LEMMING from director Dominik Moll. which is being shown out of competition.

Cross Hitchcock and M Night Shyamalan and you’re somewhere in the neighborhood. At least Hitchcock knew when to end his films, for the most part. Lemming overstays its welcome as it devolves into madness. Moll was neither upset nor surprised when journalists compared his film to a Hitchcock thriller. “It’s true that I am a great admirer of Hitchcock,” he admitted. “I think when I went to film school and saw all his films I learned a lot from him and his films. So I think it’s natural that you might have the impression that there are similarities in Lemming."

Not much else of note for Cannes Day 1, except that the lovely Salma Hayek is on the jury this year.

David Lynch is rumored to officially announce his next film tomorrow. So come back for details.