Other fests and events, 9/7.

"It's a promising school year that begins with these." AS Hamrah previews a series of films by Peter Whitehead at the Harvard Film Archive. Tomorrow through September 14. Also in the Boston Phoenix, Peter Keough previews the Boston Film Festival: "The quantity is still low, but the quality of the programming has improved." Tomorrow through September 15.

Charles Wilson previews the André Téchiné films screening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art tomorrow and Saturday night.

Updated.

Also in the LA Weekly: "Is there another contemporary American director who more sharply divides critics and audiences alike than Brian De Palma?" asks Scott Foundas. "Chances are, the 12-film De Palma retrospective that kicks off this week at LACMA (and which includes a preview screening of his latest, The Black Dahlia) will do little to convert the unconverted... But to dismiss De Palma as a mere stylist is akin to deeming Andy Warhol a mere silkscreener." September 12 through 30.

"September is Andy Warhol Month," announces Viola Salzedo-Gramm in this week's New York Press cover story. "By coincidence, cultural collusion or hand of God, (we cannot say), Andy is in the air, shining brightly like a silver floating pillow. The month began with a two-week engagement of Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, which is showing for free at the Film Forum until September 14th. On September 8th, Perry Rubenstein's 24th Street space opens with an exhibit Warhol's Skulls & Hammer and Sickles, a show originally scheduled to open in Italy in the late 1970s, but then cancelled due to political anxieties triggered by Red Brigades activities. Both POPism: The Warhol Sixties and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again are in reprint, and at 9 pm on September 20th and 21st, the documentary will unfurl itself on PBS." Related: An excerpt from POPism.

In the Independent Weekly, David Fellerath looks ahead to festivals and series coming up this season in and around Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

The Film-Makers' Cooperative is calling for contributions to For Life, Against the War, an evening to be kicked off with an excerpt from the original 1967 collective project. September 25, via Invisible Cinema.

Think Galactic will screen Shriek: An Afterword, a short film based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel, in Chicago on September 26. At the BLDGBLOG, Geoff Manaugh about "English cathedrals, 'fungal technologies' and architectural infections, the Sydney opera house, Vladimir Nabokov, 'The Library of Babel,' Monsanto, giant squids and geological deposits, nighttime walks through Prague, and even urban security after the attacks of 9/11." Via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing.

Mark A Altman looks back on Telluride for Film Threat. And at Cinematical, Kim Voynar has pix.

The New York Korean Film Festival has come and gone, but the Not Coming to a Theater Near You feature, gathering seven reviews, is still a terrific read.

Update: "One of the greatest thrills for a cinephile (or at least this cinephile) is "discovering" the films of a heretofore unheard of master." Filmbrain on Lee Man-hee.

Posted by dwhudson at September 7, 2006 2:25 PM