Other fests, other events.

The Nation's Stuart Klawans caught The Road to Damascus: Discovering Syrian Cinema, the series now on its way to Chicago, Boston, Berkeley, DC and Portland: "In short, we are looking at the work of a classic avant-garde: a congeries of artists living in internal exile, thrown back on their own resources and determined to stay true to their personal visions. To quote another guest of honor on the Lincoln Center panel, the fiction filmmaker Oussama Mohammad, Syrian film is 'a cinema free of its audience.'"

In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis previews Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures, an exhibition at MoMA (May 25 through August 13) which "showcases some of the knockout film and video work to emerge over the last 30 years from a school generally better known for nurturing artists like David Salle and Mike Kelley than filmmakers."

Michael Guillen: "Hot on the heels of DocFest, San Francisco's Indie Film Festival officially announced their program line-up at today's press conference for (Yet) Another Hole In the Head Festival (aka HeadFest) - eight nights of Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror, June 8 - 15, 2006, at the Roxie Film Center." Michael also previews Ghost of Mae Nak.

SF Docfest: SFist's Rita reviews The Future of Pinball and Pizza! The Movie.

Silverdocs (June 13 through 18) will be honoring Scorsese this year, reports Randall Mikkelsen for Reuters.

At Slant, Keith Uhlich preps for Farewell: A Tribute to Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko (through May 30). Meanwhile, Ed Gonzalez carries on reviewing the B Noir series (through June 15).

The Sydney Film Festival runs June 9 through 25.

If you happen through Bremen before June 25, catch Pleased to Meet You, Kenneth Anger's exhibition at the Künstlerhaus, recommends Antonio Pasolini.

At the WSWS, David Walsh submits the second part of his overview of the San Francisco International Film Festival; meanwhile, Tribeca reviews are still coming in from Charlie Prince at Cinema Strikes Back.

Posted by dwhudson at May 20, 2006 4:00 PM