'Indy': the buzz has just begun

May 18, 2008 CANNES -- "It's just a movie," someone yelled as a swelling crowd of journalists pushed and shoved to get past the barricades and up the red carpet for the first ever screening of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in the Palais des Festivals early afternoon in Cannes. Despite five days of marathon screenings of films In Competition for the Palme d'Or, the enthusiasm for seeing something almost certainly well-made and entertaining was palpable -- even among the notoriously jaded coterie of international film critics. Rumors that the Gallic guards at the gate would be confiscating cell phones so as to avoid blogging during the screening were quickly dispelled as the hordes were herded surprisingly quickly through the frisking security process.

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