Other fests, other events.

Let's start with an online browsing, viewing, pondering tip. Dropping Knowledge promises to be a rather unusual event taking place this coming Saturday in Berlin. Seated around "the world's largest table" will be 112 thinkers - artists, writers, scientists, philosophers - to discuss 100 questions, which have been selected from thousands. Laurie Anderson has a question, for example, and you can watch her pose it. The very next day, "a freely accessible Copyleft knowledge portal and dialog forum" will be launched. Explore the site.

Peter Bradshaw has a Venice-so-far piece in the Guardian.

Kevin Smith's Movies Askew Film Festival is set for Wednesday night in Hollywood.

Star-Telegram film criticStar-Telegram film critic Christopher Kelly has hand-picked the lineup for the Modern Cinema: Great Movies You Haven't Heard of... Yet series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. September 29 through October 1.

Curator Bruno Girveau "is about to do something that will almost certainly bring the wrath of the French cultural Establishment - maybe of all France - down on his head," writes Charles Darwent in the Independent. "He is opening an exhibition, a decade in the making, called Il était une fois Walt Disney (Once Upon a Time There Was Walt Disney), and he is doing it at the Grand Palais."

At Solace in Cinema: A report on last week's Frightfest.

Posted by dwhudson at September 4, 2006 9:52 AM