February 7, 2006

Fests and events, 2/7.

SF IndieFest SFist reviews SF IndieFest: Eve Batey on the live action Initial D and The Proposition, Rita Hao on Fuck, Jeremy Nisen on These Girls, Emily Cox on Pirates of the Great Salt Lake, Rain Jokinen on Blood Tea and Red String, Cheshire Dave on Twitch and Krissy Teegerstrom on Danielson: A Family Movie.

Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol screens at the Film Forum from February 10 through 23. J Hoberman: "Reed is less ruthless than Hitchcock in directing the viewer. Thanks in part to Graham Greene's script, however, he does create an atmosphere of free-floating, audience-implicating guilt."

The Ister More NYC events written up in the Voice: Hoberman on The Ister, "[t]he headiest, head-scratching-est, damnedest, most demanding movie opening this week in New York" (Anthology, February 10 through 16); and Michael Atkinson on Documentary Fortnight Expanded (MoMA, February 9 through March 13), "as ripe a place as any to examine what's gone drearily wrong and, occasionally, poetically right with the form since the salad days of vérité."

Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema will be screening at UCLA on Friday and Sunday, introduced by Robert Koehler. In the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Crust offers his take.

Mark Rabinowitz files two dispatches for indieWIRE from Rotterdam, the first on the general tone of the films this year - "dark" - and the second on Cinemart, the "highly successful international co-production market."

Peter sends a Rotterdam wrap-up to Twitch with an emphasis on the Japanese films. Look for a few more reviews sent into Ain't It Cool News.

Coming to Berlin for the Berlinale? The Guardian's Matthew Tempest has a few tips on what to do if you get the urge to wander out of the "soulless Potsdamer Platz," which, by the way, is recommended if you'll be here long enough. Meanwhile, Spiegel Online's ready for Thursday's opening and filmz.de gathers a collection of here-we-go! articles in the German papers.

SXSW XX Cyndi Greening, who will be on the same panel at SXSW I'll be on, is posting leeohhhhts of video from the Q&As and panels at Sundance.

Jette Kernion has a quick and fun entry at Cinematical that might be called, "Which SXSW attendee are you?"

The Reeler looks ahead to the Israel Film Festival (February 23 through March 9 in New York) and to what's next in the ongoing Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series.



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Posted by dwhudson at February 7, 2006 3:57 PM

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So Dave, will Adam be covering the 2006 SFKAFF for you? He seems like the likely candidate!

http://www.mykima.org/festival_4th/welcome.htm

Posted by: Michael Guillen at February 7, 2006 4:56 PM

That'll be up to Adam, naturally. [grin]

Posted by: David Hudson at February 8, 2006 9:37 AM

If you can help me save some unsuspecting filmmaker some pain by posting this, it would be appreciated, thank you, Luis

MEDIA RELEASE

02/06/2006

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA – The director of Rockets Redglare!, a Steve Buscemi produced documentary which screened at Sundance in 2003 featuring Mr. Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Jim Jarmusch and Matt Dillon, announced today he has filed a $1.75 million lawsuit in Federal Court against the film’s primary distributor.


Luis Fernandez de la Reguera charges that Michael Broder DBA Small Planet Pictures and Undecided Films, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is in breach of contract, failed to pay advance fees and royalties, distributed the film illegally outside of North America, and did not honor marketing commitments. Entertainment lawyer J. Christopher Robbins is handling this case.

In a two-count federal lawsuit, the film’s owners allege that Small Planet Pictures,Undecided Films and its owner, Michael Broder, “obtained gains, profits, and advantages as a result of his wrongful acts.” They seek a court order preventing further unlawful distribution of the film, dissolution of the contract, and damages.

For more information contact:
Catherine Timilty, Esq.
(866) 862-6878
http://www.rocketsredglare.tv
http://www.floridalawyer.com

Posted by: Luis Fernandez de la Reguera at February 8, 2006 2:52 PM

Who IS this guy and why does he keep trolling your site?!! Jesus! ENOUGH with the potboiler pleas, de la Reguera. You undermine your cause.

Posted by: Michael Guillen at February 10, 2006 1:22 PM

To Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, I am a filmmaker and am also in a legal battle for my film, you are smart to post this info in all film related site, seems that Michael Guillen hasn´t a clue, and cant seem to recognize the importance of informing filmmakers of the dishonest people that lurk in the industry. Then again, I bet he has never made a film...

Posted by: Brian Samdi at February 18, 2006 3:01 PM