April 11, 2006

Fests and events, 4/11.

September 12th "I am happy to announce that September 12th just won the Best Feature Award at the 2006 Longbaugh Film Festival in Portland, OR," writes John Touhey at Indie Features 06. "It has been a great festival, and we are very thankful to David Walker and Joe Lesher of Willamette Week, the festival directors."

Non-festive but eventful: "The Hong Kong Film Awards took place [Saturday] night and Johnnie To had to rent a truck to haul his statues while Tsui Hark (nominated for 11 awards) went home with nothing." Grady Hendrix breaks down the winners.

Economist: Berlusconi Camillo de Marco for Cineuropa: "Just ten days before the announcement of the official program of the Cannes Film Festival (May 17 - 28), hypotheses over the Italian filmmakers who could be present at the event boil down to these four names: Moretti, Bellocchio, Crialese and Rossi Stuart." Related: Nikki Finke hears that Hollywood studios will be dropping bundles of cash all up and down the Croissette.

Brave New Europe, a series of new films from and about Central and Eastern Europe, is a series slated for May and June at the Pioneer Theater in NYC.

"Attack of the Fifty Foot Reels!" This Thursday. Flicker NYC, via Invisible Cinema.

More Tribeca reviews from Cinematical's Martha Fischer on Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book, Two Players From the Bench, 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep and Burke and Wills.

Also: Scott Weinberg reviews the Danger After Dark series at this year's just-wrapped Philadelphia Film Festival.

Speaking of which, Twitch's Todd reviews Black Night, Danielson: A Family Movie, Hard Candy, Next Door, Joni's Promise, Evil, Texture of Skin and 7 Virgins.

IFF Boston IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez previews the lineup for the Independent Film Festival of Boston (April 19 through 24). Also: Brian Brooks looks ahead to the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (April 21 through 30).

The Nashville Film Festival (April 20 through 26) has unveiled its lineup.

Michael Guillen caught Ray Harryhausen at the San Rafael Film Center the other night.



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Posted by dwhudson at April 11, 2006 2:28 PM

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Thanks for picking up the Harryhausen entry, Dave, but especially for pointing to Jonathan's transcription of the previous Harryhausen appearance at the San Rafael Film Center (which I also attended). I adore Harryhausen. When I was a poor boy growing up in Twin Falls, Idaho, the Chamber of Commerce provided a summer program of matinee movies to babysit kids. That's where I first saw Harryhausen's stuff and my imagination has never been the same since!

Posted by: Michael Guillen at April 11, 2006 3:01 PM