As Cannes finally gets into full swing, the buzz today is all Quentin Tarantino's World War II movie Inglourious Basterds. He, Brad Pitt and the other stars made the rounds in high spirits, talked Nazis and mocked each other.

Pitt noted how Tarantino matched the nationalities of the actors to their characters—mostly: "He cast Germans for Germans, French for French," Pitt said, looking sidelong at costar Mike Myers, the exception: "Canadians for British."

Costar Eli Roth (best known for directing Hostel) talked about the film's finale, where his Jewish soldier kills high-ranking members of the Nazi high command, while mocking his own bad-boy rep: "Being Jewish, for me, it's like Kosher Porn," he said. "Something I've fantasized about since I was 12."

Elsewhere at the fest...

Jim Carrey and director Robert Zemeckis debuted scenes from their upcoming motion-capture animation version of A Christmas Carol. "Do you believe in ghosts?" one reporter asked Carrey, who fired back with the crytpic: "I believe your ghosts are a part of you."

And earlier in the week, at the press conference for the controversial Antichrist (loaded with vicious violence between Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg), director Lars von Trier responded to the scorn directed against his film. Like all the booing and walkouts.

"I am the greatest director in the world" he told the press. "You are all my guests here, not the other way around." As if independent film needed it's own Kanye West.

Tonight's festivities include a blood-red carpet for Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, the Spider-Man director's return to goofy horror. We'll have all that and more soon, but first, check out all the celebs in Cannes for the flicks and fetes!

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