Flipping through May's newest glossies, I had a thought: Is red hair the new bang? I had just noticed Kate Moss in Vogue Paris looking punky in (temporary) red locks, and was flipping through Lara Stone's editorial "Wild!!!!" in Vogue China, where the gap-toothed one is also sporting a new red 'do. Days later, Blake Lively washed away her Cali blond in favor of rouge. Then the redhead floodgates really opened up. Have a look:

Last night, the Cinema Society screened and celebrated the upcoming release of Terry Gilliam's latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which has garnered considerable buzz due to the tragic death of its male lead Heath Ledger. When Ledger passed away during production, Gilliam called on friends Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell to finish the project, each of whom portray imagined variations of Ledger's ersatz philanthropist character. The event was as wonderfully absurd as one might hope and expect from a Gilliam premiere. Patti Smith sat near Olivia Palermo. The film began late because, as Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard quipped, "We've been waiting for Courtney's Love's car to arrive, but it doesn't look like that's happening." The film's female star, redhead supermodel Lily Cole, towered over Gilliam in short shorts and thigh-highs, a Brobdingnagian in Gilliam's Lilliput. I caught up with Gilliam for a few minutes after the film.

The mad 'Doctor' director and his ingenue

To the dismay of everyone within earshot of my desk, my excitement will not be quelled about how totally major this year's Cannes Film Festival is going to be. In addition to new awards-contenders from the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Michel Gondry (who didn't make the list, only because I couldn't find much on his latest film, L'epine Dans le Coeur), the sun-soaked Riviera festival will premiere Sam Raimi’s return to death and evil, as well as Jane Campion’s first major release since the Kiwi director tried, disastrously, to make Meg Ryan edgy in 2003’s In the Cut. Penelope Cruz hugs a lot of people in Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, Ang Lee takes Woodstock and Brad Pitt screams, “Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps ... and I want my scalps!” Oh, and the late Heath Ledger might just get another Oscar. After the jump, the festival’s, if not the year’s, most anticipated films (with trailers).