March 9, 2006

Fests and events, 3/9.

Back in Texas and pouring over the Austin Chronicle's coverage of SXSW, now conveniently gathered on one mini-site.

Austin Chronicle: SXSW 06

Introducing nearly two dozen film festival-related pieces in the new issue, Shawn Badgley writes, "We've featured Steve Collins, Heather Courtney, Paul Gordon, Kat Candler, Korey Coleman, Jake Vaughan and Bryan Poyser on our cover and front and center for our SXSW Film 06 preview because we've responded to their movies as art of consequence. Beyond that, though, we've done so because of what they mean to Austin filmmaking and to the apparent mission of this festival (which, full disclosure, the Chronicle's publisher and editor co-founded)."

One of the documentaries screening at SXSW, Letters From the Other Side, interweaving "video letters carried across the US-Mexico border by [director Heather Courtney] with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico," has run up against the very sort of problem it examines. The US Consulate in Mexico City has denied visas to the women featured in the film despite letters from SXSW and Congressman Lloyd Doggett. Movie City News runs the release.

Several filmmakers with works to be screened are now blogging at indieWIRE.

Tim Basham previews four SXSW features.

Music? Let the depravedfangirls be your guide; plus, anders at Music for Robots narrows down the sample MP3s to a mere 79.

24th FIFA

At fps, Jas previews the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal, through March 19.

In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dennis Harvey previews the Pacific Film Archive series The Wide-Angle Cinema of Michel Brault, through March 26.

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is in London from March 15 through 25, and Wally Hammond previews the highlights for Time Out.

At Twitch, Todd points to the full lineup for the Philadelphia Film Festival, March 30 through April 11.

Toronto 06 Festive news at indieWIRE: Eugene Hernandez reports that Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn's The Journals of Knud Rasmussen will open the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7; Tamara Schweitzer has news of the Cleveland International Film Festival (March 16 through 26) and the Florida Film Festival (March 24 through April 2; site).

Online viewing tip. A Cinematical interview with Jay Floyd and Rob Houk, director and producer, respectively, of Forgiving the Friedmans Franklins.



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Posted by dwhudson at March 9, 2006 4:46 PM

Comments

Freudian slip I'm sure - but I sure would like to see something-like-a-sequel called "Forgiving the Friedmans".

Posted by: Evan Mather at March 9, 2006 8:36 PM

Good heavens. Thanks, Evan.

Posted by: David Hudson at March 9, 2006 10:03 PM

This is so sad... I read the post, got excited about,"Forgiving the Friedmans" but kept on reading knowing that I was going to go back to link. But it changed.

Somebody please make that film! and if somebody did, who would be a good director?

Posted by: Jerry Lentz at March 10, 2006 9:31 AM

It sounds just up Todd Solondz's alley.

Posted by: Brian at March 10, 2006 1:22 PM

And above, those are just some of the drugs that might be needed to watch, "Forgiving the Friedmans"... or make it!

I am thinking possibly it could be an Oliver Stone production. What do you say?

Posted by: Jerry Lentz at March 10, 2006 11:56 PM

And the Weinsteins could pick it up...

So the spammers obviously love this entry, forcing me to close it off to further comments, unfortunately - but as always, when you come across a closed entry but would like to type up something about it, please just find a more recent, open entry and have at it!

Posted by: David Hudson at March 11, 2006 7:59 AM