Fests and events, 1/11.

Das Schreckliche Mädchen
(The Nasty Girl)

Berlin and Beyond: New Films from Germany, Austria & Switzerland opens tomorrow and runs through January 18 at the Castro in San Francisco. In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dennis Harvey has an excellent profile of lifetime achievement award recipient Michael Verhoeven.

Also, Max Goldberg: "As long as Noir City is helmed by Anita Monga and Eddie Muller, the genre's devotees can be sure they're in for a glorious couple of weeks at the movies."

At Movie City Indie, Ray Pride collects trailers, sites, bios, whatever's out there related to 17 films premiering at Sundance.

Catching up with the Park City interviews at indieWIRE: Cho Chang-ho (The Peter Pan Formula), Steven Bogner & Julia Reichert (A Lion in the House), Luc Schaedler (Angry Monk), Joey Lauren Adams (Come Early Morning) and Christoffer Boe (Allegro).

Tom Hall previews ten films he's looking forward to catching at Sundance. And Anthony Kaufman presents "a few of my favorite gross, materialistic marketing tactics that continue to chip away at the integrity of the films at the festival."

In the Village Voice, Leslie Camhi previews the New York Jewish Film Festival, running today through January 26. Hoberman picks out Joseph Seiden's The Living Orphan to recommend.

Posted by dwhudson at January 11, 2006 3:44 PM