Fests and events, 11/30.

"I've told people that one sign of success is when you or your work become cliché." And now, Bruce Conner tells Michelle Silva in a fine phone interview for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The occasion: Two days of screenings and discussion at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 8 and 10.

Also in the SFBG: Chuck Stephens previews the Samurai! series at the Balboa (December 2 through 22) and what a lively introduction it is.

Michael Atkinson previews Maysles Films: Five Decades (December 1 through 31, MoMA): "[C]inema vérité proved to be a historical prophecy, not the running-with-the-devil antithesis to the documentary tradition but the tradition itself." Also in the Voice: Atkinson on A Popular Cinema: Nelson Pereira dos Santos (December 5 through 20, BAMcinématek) and Leslie Camhi on Hard Questions: The Films of Amos Gitai (through December 8).

Charlotte Rampling will head the International Jury of the Berlinale (February 9 through 19).

Caroline Palmer in the City Pages: "This week Twin Citians can enjoy an unusually large number of shorts programs, and while none of them deal with the love lives of giant gorillas, they do tackle some weighty and memorable subjects."

Posted by dwhudson at November 30, 2005 1:59 PM