SIFF and other fests.

"This year the largest film festival in the United States will screen more than 270 features - more than ever before," writes Annie Wagner, introducing the Stranger's appropriately monstrous new site dedicated to all things Seattle International Film Festival (through June 18), featuring a blog, naturally, but loads more, too.

But the Stranger's isn't the only blog covering the fest; Tablet may be defunct, but its Siffblog thrives.

Earlier: A preview of the lineup.

A Work in Progress: The Films of James Mangold, a series running June 4 through 29 at MoMA, was preceded Tuesday night by an onstage interview with the director - and The Reeler was there.

Ed Gonzalez previews the Flaming Film Festival (through May 31) for the City Pages.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is a series running from May 31 through June 8. Cinematical's Martha Fischer previews Gabriele Salvatores's Quo Vadis, Baby?

"In spite of the expansion of the European Union, films from Central and Eastern Europe are yet to make much of an impact on cinema audiences throughout the rest of the continent," writes John Gorick. "The Trieste Film Festival offers one of the best opportunities to see the developing trends in cinema from the Baltic to the Balkans." Also at Kamera, Antonio Pasolini looks back on the European Media Art Festival, which took place two weeks ago in Osnabrück.

Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2006 5:04 PM