Fests and events, 12/1.

Ride Lonesome: The Films of Budd Boetticher unreels at the Harvard Film Archive December 2 through 13. Chris Fujiwara in the Boston Phoenix: "It's as if he wanted to encapsulate, in a series of small films that flew far beneath the radar of the serious cultural commentators of their day, all the potential of the Western as a tragic and elegiac discourse on the absurdity and brevity of life."

In the LA Weekly, FX Feeney previews Technicolor's 90th Anniversary: A Tribute to Dye Transfer Printing (December 2 through 11 at the American Cinematheque). "They give off a perpetually fresh, powerful glow of fantasy, nostalgia and charm... What's undying about these wonderful films is their robust optimism." Also: Scott Foundas reviews the films to be screened on Sunday as part of The Most Typical Avant-Garde: Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles: Program VII: Women Filmmakers II.

The 21st Israel Film Festival runs through December 15 in LA and, in the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas singles out the opening film for a brief review, Eyal Halfon's What a Wonderful Place.

Launching on Monday and continuing the first Monday of each month thereafter: The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series.

Stefan Steinberg reviews a slew of docs recently screened at festivals in Cottbus and Neubrandenburg for the WSWS.

Posted by dwhudson at December 1, 2005 11:39 AM