Fests and events, 7/20.

In the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan hails the opening of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation (through August 19), "showing the widest and most exciting variety of films of any festival in the known world, running the gamut from Victor Mature's unmistakable grunts in One Million BC to the experimental efforts of elegant aesthetician Kenneth Anger."

John Patterson in the LA Weekly: "The continuing appeal of the Mods & Rockers films undoubtedly derives from the movie establishment's disarray during the 60s, and its cluelessness about the exploding youth demographic." The series runs through August 17.

The Philadelphia City Paper reviews highlights of the second week of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (through July 25).

"The working-class, faithful expressions of Borzage's movies preserve virtues that our contemporary cinema has forsaken." Armond White in the New York Press on Frank Borzage, Hollywood Romantic (through August 20). Update: Dan Callahan on Street Angel and Seventh Heaven in Slant.

For SF60, Michael Fox previews the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (today through July 27 before moving throughout the Bay Area). Update: More from Kelly Vance in the East Bay Express.

The Lumière Reader's coverage of the New Zealand International Film Festivals rolls on.

Brian Brooks previews the New York International Latino Film Festival (July 25 through 30); also at indieWIRE, Kim Adelman picks "Ten Outstanding Shorts from Outfest 2006."

Posted by dwhudson at July 20, 2006 6:19 AM