Fests and events, 7/19.

Cheryl Eddy previews the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (tomorrow through July 27 at the Castro, before moving on to Berkeley, Mountain View and San Rafael), paying particular attention to KZ. Related: Whiskey's on the program, and Johnny Ray Huston remembers Juan Pablo Rebella. So, too, does Ronald Bergan in the Guardian.

Related: At SF360, Susan Gerhard talks with Leena Prasad, who took part in the 48 Hour Film Project last year and "is already gearing up for her next filmmaking-as-sprint-race this weekend (starting line is Dolores Park, 9 am; films screen the Castro at 9:30 pm the same day) via Cinemasports," part of the SFJFF.

Also, an interview with California Film Institute Executive Director Mark Fishkin about the Sundance Institute's "Art House Project" and the retrospective at the Rafael of films debuting at Sundance over the past 25 years.

Back to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dennis Harvey on 10 Rillington Place, screening tomorrow as part of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Too Scary for DVD: Neglected Horror on 35mm series, which ends next week.

More reviews from the Auckland Film Festival (through July 30) are up at the East Bay View.

New to Slant's feature, Flesh and Desire: The Films of Frank Borzage, Dan Callahan: "The unique quality of History is Made at Night is its ability to turn on a dime, flipping from one extreme to another so that the extremes intensify each other - it's as if Borzage forced the Melodrama and the Romantic Comedy into a room and ordered them to make love." Callahan also reviews Man's Castle and Lucky Star. Frank Borzage, Hollywood Romantic runs at the Museum of the Moving Image through August 20.

Focusing on Fanfan la Tulipe, Jessica Winter looks ahead to Film Forum's Summer Swashbucklers series, "a frothy tonic in the midst of blockbuster dog days." Also in the Voice, Joshua Land on The World According to Shorts.

The Philadelphia Weekly grades the highlights of the second week of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (through July 25).

The New York Television Festival is slated for September 12 through 17, buy you can get involved now. Submit an idea for an original television series and, if you're one of ten finalists, you can pitch it again, live, to TV execs at the fest. First prize: an $8,000 development deal from IFC and Rainbow Media. Deadline: August 4 or 10K entries, whichever comes first.

Current TV's Seeds of Tolerance initiative: submit a video on the theme of "tolerance" between now and August 15 for a shot at winning quite a bit of cash.

Starting August 1, you can submit your film(s) to the HBO Comedy Festival (February 28 through March 4, 2007).

The Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Goldstein: "The New York Film Festival [September 29 through October 15) has crowned Stephen Frears's darkly comic docudrama The Queen as its opening-night film." More from Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE.

At Cineuropa, Camillo de Marco tracks the progress of Arbeit Macht Frei through the festival circuit.

The Reeler is impressed with MoMA's schedule for The Huston Family: 75 Years on Film (August 18 through September 22).

Michael Guillen, Peter Nellhaus and, at the Siffblog, Anne M Hockens and David Jeffers all file good long looks back at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

At WSWS, Richard Phillips has more on the Sydney Film Festival

Posted by dwhudson at July 19, 2006 2:39 PM