Fests and events, 8/17.

The Residents have issued a call for submissions to The River of Crime (see details there; you've got until September 15); and The Residents: Re-Viewed will survey their video and film work at MoMA (October 19 through 23).

"The Last Movie, the exhilarating cinematic outrage that incinerated Dennis Hopper's career in 1971, might also be known as The Lost Masterpiece," declares J Hoberman in the Voice, and "the 35mm print showing for a week at Anthology Film Archives could be the only complete version in existence." Hoberman tells the film's story and notes that "coincidentally Anthology is screening [Kid Blue] Thursday as part of its Warren Oates retro."

Also in the Voice: Elliott Stein previews The Huston Family: 75 Years on Film (tomorrow through September 22 at MoMA). Related: Jeremiah Kipp at the House Next Door on John Huston's performance in Chinatown: "Knowledge of Huston's filmography and private life complicates an already fascinating character."

"Sound Unseen [through August 24] has been a vital part of the Twin Cities alt-culture landscape ever since entrepreneurial curator-turned-organic farmer and freelance stonemason Nate Johnson planted it here in 2000," writes Rob Nelson in the City Pages. "But I believe this is the first year that the festival of music and film has given its parties equal prominence on the bill. And this is a good thing." Also: Lindsey Thomas on the rock docs, Amy Taubin on Old Joy and Peter S Scholtes on The Monks.

Eugene Hernandez previews the Chicago Underground Film Festival (through August 24) for indieWIRE; also, Brian Brooks breaks down the program for the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and Short Film Market (ShortsFest), set for August 24 through 30.

"'We're teaching kids from at–risk communities... to express themselves in a non-formal way,' says [LIFT Project coordinator Chris] Langer. The program culminates on Monday, August 21 with a screening of the teen's creations at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater. Last summer's screening, Langer says, sold out." Sushil Cheema watches the teens work for the New York Press.

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian: "The Edinburgh International Film Festival [through August 27] got off to a dull start [Monday] night with its opening film [The Flying Scotsman]: a true-life underdog sports movie about Graeme Obree, the champion cyclist from Scotland." Meanwhile, Richard Brunton is all over the festival.

Charlotte Cripps previews the Zone Horror Frightfest (August 25 through 28) for the Independent.

Robert Abele for the Los Angeles Times: "The International Documentary Assn's DocuWeek returns to the ArcLight on Friday, and the selection of films this year - 12 features and four shorts - is especially strong (if mostly chilling) in the stories they tell and the issues they lay open, from the struggle to get a fair price for poverty-stricken coffee growers (Black Gold) to the efforts of fundamentalist Christians to mold young evangelists (Jesus Camp)."

At Slant, Fernando F Croce previews a week's worth of Frank Tashlin movies at the Film Forum (September 1 through 7).

Wiley Wiggins will be on the jury at this year's Fantastic Fest (September 21 through 28 in Austin).

The Salzburg Festival and the American Friends of the Salzburg Festival are at odds over Tony Palmer's documentary, The Salzburg Festival: A Short History, reports Anthony Tommasini: "The festival has disavowed the film, partly because of what festival directors consider Mr Palmer's overemphasized and sometimes inaccurate account of the festival's intertwined relationship with the Nazis."

Stephen Holt submits his Viva Pedro recommendations at Movie City News.

Matt Riviera wraps the Brisbane and Melbourne International Film Festivals.

Mitch Davis is the Director of International Programming for Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival and Film Threat's Jeremy Knox highly recommends the DVD collection of shorts Davis has hand-picked, Small Gauge Trauma.

István Szabó will head up the jury of the 11th Pusan International Film Festival (October 12 through 20), reports the Chosun Ilbo.

Online listening tip. The Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 20 through 24) is podcasting. Via Kino Kid at fps.

Posted by dwhudson at August 17, 2006 12:44 PM