Shorts, 3/15.

A night at the movies as could only be experienced in 1974. Another terrific story from Flickhead.

Chuck Tryon: "I caught Alex Karpovsky's The Hole Story (IMDB) at the DC Independent Film Festival on Friday night, and like Matt, I deeply enjoyed the film. The Hole Story has been on the festival circuit for a few months now, and like Matt, I believe the film deserves a much wider audience, and after seeing this film, I can't help but anticiapte what Karpovsky will be doing in the future."

Lance Mannion introduces his coverage of The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah. Stay tuned.

Todd Seavey at Metaphilm on BloodRayne, Underworld: Evolution, UltraViolet and Perfect Creature: "[T]he particular emphasis all four of the movies place on hybrids - and the possibility of war over genetic purity - suggests that something more than old-fashioned vampirism makes these films resonate with early-twenty-first-century audiences - or rather with the producers who green-lit the projects."

Michael Koresky opens Reverse Shot's three-angled take on Marco Kreuzpaintner's Summer Storm at indieWIRE.

Tracey Emin's new film, What Price Art?, "investigates the gross imbalance between the prices male and female artists get for their work," notes Sophie Leiris, who meets the artist. Also in the Independent: Jonathan Brown chooses ten sequels that better the originals and David Thomson remembers Kay Kendall.

In the Guardian, Helen Pidd meets documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto.

Ray Pride at Movie City News: "Two long interviews in this column: writer-director Gavin Hood talks about his Oscar-winning South African Tsotsi, and Eugene Jarecki talks about Why We Fight and its analysis of war, money and belief in the US as well as his forceful reaction to a rancorous review by the New Yorker's David Denby."

Waggish on The Face of Another: "Easily the best [Hiroshi] Teshigahara film I've seen, and a better adaptation of a Kobo Abe novel than I thought possible."

Filmbrain on Pen-Ek Ratanaruang: "[W]ith the wry humor of 6ixtynin9 and the emotional dulcitude of Last Life in the Universe, Monrak Transistor is a magnificent film from one of the most consistently interesting directors working today."

Peter Nellhaus catches two films with Linda Lin Dai, "Hong Kong's equivalent to Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor."

Jason Morehead: "Unrepentantly dark, bleak, and wrought with the sort of manly existential melodrama that made us fall in love with John Woo back in the day, Sha Po Lang is also incredibly glossy, stylish, and prone to sometimes get bogged down by its own excess. Oh yeah, and it also features several action scenes that are just stunning for their sheer knock down, drag out intensity and brutality - just the way we like it."

In the Los Angeles Times: Mark Olsen on how, against all odds, Duck Season made it to US theaters and Kristin Hohenadel profiles Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

The BBC reports that Cate Blanchett and director Shekhar Kapur will pick up the story of Elizabeth I where they left off; the sequel's title: Virgin Queen in the Golden Age.

Paul Haggis may direct Against All Enemies, based on the book by the former national counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, reports Chris Tilly at Time Out. Also: Daniel Day-Lewis talks about his upcoming collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood.

At Cinematical, Martha Fischer - who also reviews Róbert I Douglas's Eleven Men Out - finds news that Bruce Beresford will be shooting a Sergei Rachmaninoff biopic.

Boyd van Hoeij reports at Cineuropa that Hermine Huntgeburth will shoot the fifth adaptation of Effi Briest.

Gabriel Shanks wishes Liza Minnelli a happy 60th.

Tom Hall unveils the lineup for the Sarasota Film Festival (March 31 through April 9).

Ben Slater previews Lovebytes 2006 (March 22 through 25 in Sheffield).

The Reeler has updates on the Gen Art Film Festival (April 5 through 11) and Tribeca's "All Access Connects" program.

Doug Cummings on the Moving Spaces: Production Design + Film exhibition currently at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in LA through April 16.

Signandsight translates Daniela Sannwald short talk with Detlev Buck about Knallhart (Tough Enough) for the Tagesspiegel.

At WSWS, Stefan Steinberg looks back on Absolute Wilson and a few other docs that screened at the Berlinale last month.

Time's Richard Corliss talks with George Lucas, Michael Mann, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg and M Night Shyamalan about the digital future of cinema. Via Chris Barsanti at Vast Wasteland.

Online browsing tip. Shobary's Spaghetti Westerns. Trailers, music and more, via Wiley Wiggins.

Online viewing tip #1. At Twitch, Todd finds a trailer for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9.

Online viewing tip #2. Florian Cramer's What the Hack.

Online viewing tips. Kate Stables has half a dozen more suggestions at the Guardian.

Posted by dwhudson at March 14, 2006 11:13 PM