Shorts, 3/26.

The San Francisco International Film Festival has unveiled its lineup for the 47th round: Nearly 200 films from over 50 countries. Opening night: Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes. Closing night: Peter Howitt's Laws of Attraction, with Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. Tributes: Chris Cooper and Milos Forman. For a quick but not quite so scant run-down, see Delfin Vigil's highlights in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Brian Brooks in indieWIRE: "The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the feature film competition slate for its 3rd annual event Thursday, with five competitive sections containing 65 films - 30 world premieres, six international premieres, 13 North American premieres and 10 U.S. premieres." Also: Wendy Mitchell talks to George Hickenlooper about Mayor of the Sunset Strip.

Meanwhile, Dogville really, really pissed off David Edelstein. Also in Slate: Chris Suellentrop on the improbable longevity of Scooby-Doo and Josh Levin on how zombies got so damn fast. Neither offer definitive answers, but a good question is always worth a couple of hundred words.

The gaming industry is looking more and more like Hollywood, for better and for worse, notes The Economist.

Via Movie City News, Jennifer Barrett's big-picture interview with Jack Valenti for Newsweek.

In the Guardian: Desson Thomson and former UK defense secretary Denis Healey on The Fog of War.

And finally, a priceless editorial move over at the IMdb/WENN newsfeed. Today's edition, which we can assume will be archived here, wraps up a bit on John Baxter's new biography of Robert De Niro by focusing on the actor's pursuit of Whitney Houston. Last line: "He writes, 'Her parents with whom she lived, advised her not to get involved with a man who, besides being white, was almost twice her age. Record executive Clive Davis echoed this advice. For a young black singer such a relationship would have been suicide.'"

Very next story? "Bobby Brown Ordered Back to Jail."

Posted by dwhudson at March 26, 2004 12:16 PM