Fests and events, 5/18.

Should have mentioned this yesterday, when David D'Arcy's interview with John Waters went up at the main site: New Yorkers have through Sunday to catch the director's exhibition Unwatchable at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea.

"They were a study in contrasts — in personal styles, in modes of masculinity, in American musical-comedy legacies." For the Boston Phoenix, Steve Vineberg previews a series at the Brattle featuring Fred Astaire, "a natural aristocrat, movie musicals' closest equivalent to Cary Grant," and Gene Kelly, "a prole, an athlete, a two-fisted Irishman like Jimmy Cagney." Tomorrow through May 25.

Also, how about a Graham Greene film festival, asks Gerald Peary. In the meantime, The Fallen Idol, opening tomorrow at the Kendall Square, is "a pretty good suspense tale, and its central concern - an amity threatened because of the secret, suspect life of the more-idolized friend - looks forward, a year later, to The Third Man."

SFist's Jon on Diameter of a Bomb: "We've been to Israel, albeit in less troubled times than when the movie was filmed. We know plenty of people who have been there and we have family members who lived there. We have also read and seen our fair share of news stories about what it's like over there, but it wasn't until we watched the movie that we really got a feeling of what it's like to live there at it's worst."

Max Goldberg at SF360: "Early on in Kidlat Tahimik's visionary, comic documentary Perfumed Nightmare - screening this Sunday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts courtesy of SF Cinematheque - the director offers a striking metaphor for his filmmaking process."

Neil Morris previews Sunday's Triangle Jewish Film Festival for the Independent Weekly.

Online viewing tip. The Now Corporation's PSA, with Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci, for the CANS Film Festival (May 22 through 24 in NYC). Via Screenhead.

Posted by dwhudson at May 18, 2006 9:26 AM