Cannes film festival 2010 opens on Wednesday May 12 with screenings of Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe's Robin Hood.

For more red carpet and celebrity pictures keep an eye on our regularly updated Cannes picture gallery

2022 Anita Singh sums up day 1 in Cannes: Overall it's a bit flat - an opening film that the critics have already seen (Robin Hood), a grumpy star who looks like he'd rather be at home watching the Rabbitohs (Russell Crowe) and a jury president reluctant to express opinions about anything at all (Tim Burton). Still, things can only improve from here. Roll on Wall Street 2.

2015 Film critic ebertchicago tweets: "My Cannes blog #1: "You think this is great? You shoulda been here in 1960."

2000 At last a bit of excitement, after a decidedly uneventful opener. Here it is, the first gasp of the day: hollywoodgrrl tweets: "WOW WOW WOW Cate's dress made me actually gasp!"

The gown, ankle-length, off-the-shoulder, emblazoned on the front and back by a silver eagle in flight, is by the late British designer Alexander McQueen. It was part of McQueen's pre-fall 2010 collection, and one of his last ever designs.

1909 How do you survive the 12 days of Cannes? Efferalgan Vitamin C booster, is what website fr2day.com is recommending. It's a combination of vitamin C with paracetamol - so that you can recoup from a hangoever, and still look vaguely beautiful... Follow the link if you're think you might need more of such advice.

1905 French Vogue have put together a retrospective slideshow of the 30 most beautiful dresses ever seen on the Cannes red carpet.

1820 Cannes will be officially launched in a couple of minutes. The whole cast of Robin Wood is on the red carpet.

1813 Dresses with trains are featuring heavily on the red carpet this evening, with actress Eva Longoria Parker taking the prize at the moment. Where are your flower girls Eva?

1740 On the subject of Ken Loach, let's take a look at how Britain is being represented this year: two British directors are in the running for a Palme d’Or winner. Loach, as mentioned with Route Irish. And Mike Leigh, another previous winner, will be screening Another Year, starring Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton. The winner of the Palme d’Or will be announced on May 23.

1735 Ken Loach was dramatically accepted as a late entry into the Palme d'Or competition with his Iraq war film Route Irish. The Telegraph's Rachel Cooper explains why this tale of private contractors marks a return to politically charged film-making for the British director.

1725 Tim Burton has revealed he is "sensitive" about his judging role and has announced that he will be a "generous judge" because as "we're judges, we'll be judged as judges." The BBC has a full report here

1718 Anita Singh reports for the Telegraph on the critics' reception of Robin Hood in Cannes. She writes:

"The reception for the first screening in Cannes was decidedly muted, with some critics questioning the “politically correct” rewrite which has Robin arguing against the killing of Muslims in the Crusades and Marian donning chain mail to fight French troops on the battlefield."

But Russell Crowe has shrugged off the criticisms. He said that the Hollywood Robins who had gone before, from Douglas Fairbanks to Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner, paled by comparison.

1711 Barbie and Ken spotted in Cannes

1639 Mexican newspaper La Jornada draws attention to the fact that there are five Mexican films appearing in different sections of the competition. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who won the Best Director prize for Babel in 2006, returns to the competition with Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem.

1631 David Gritten finds himself struck by the topicality of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. He feels David Cameron could have picked up some useful tips from the impassioned speeches composed by scriptwriter Brian Helgeland for Russell Crowe's character.

1620 One of the first blogs of 2010 about Cannes this morning came from the online community Second Life, who are hyping a film about Second Life, Gaming, and Living Digitally by director David Verbeek, that will screen at Cannes in Un Certain Regard selection.

1516 Amnesty International are urging Iran to release award winning director Ja'far Panahi. He was due to appear today as a member of the festival jury but has been detained in Tehran's notorious Evin prison after making a film about the disputed Iranian presidential election of 2009.

1457 Russell Crowe has used the Robin Hood press conference to offer some tips on this year's football world cup. Insights included the fact that England have 'a good team, but there may be a defence issue there' and that they 'have no chance against a resurgent Australia team'. The idea of Crowe facing down Alan Hansen on the Match of the Day sofa is appeal

[1] [2] [3] 下一页