Fests, 8/19.

"We have a new war and a new Nixon to deal with, and if the 60s counterculture taught us anything, it was the value of living in the here and now," writes JR Jones in the Chicago Reader. "So what's with the Nixon-era bong smoke hanging over this year's Chicago Underground Film Festival? ... To judge from [the] lineup, the 60s explosion of radical idealism has become a ball and chain for the current generation of underground filmmakers."

The New York Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 43rd edition and Alison Willmore has done you a big favor in providing links, wherever at all possible, for each of film titles and directors. Among those sorting through the list and offering a few initial impressions: Filmbrain, Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE and the The Reeler (who's also planning, however reluctantly, to for over lots of cash to MoMA this fall - but probably not to the IFC Center).

IW's Brian Brooks tracks the ever-expanding Toronto lineup.

Besides the Guardian, the London Times also has a special section on the Edinburgh Film Festival.

At Twitch, Todd's come across the lineup for the Firecracker Showcase 2005, bringing Asian films to the UK.

Posted by dwhudson at August 19, 2005 7:23 AM