Fests and events, 12/10.

"'24 Hour Psycho showed that you can't always appropriate,' [Douglas Gordon] recently confided. 'Or you can appropriate, but it's not going to be great art simply by association. Part of me totally believes in anonymous art. By making a second version, I make the first anonymous and the second the appropriation.'" Now at the Museum of New Art in Detroit through January 24: Gordan's One Minute Psycho.

"'Velázquez and the Cinema' will probably be about narrative: how it works in Velázquez, and how it works in the cinema as practised by certain filmmakers. Narrative has characters, tone, structure - some of the things I'll be discussing with relation to those filmmakers. I won't say more here, save that Godard's Pierrot le Fou kicks off with a quotation on Velázquez." But Time Out's Geoff Andrew does say more about his talk this coming Wednesday at the National Gallery.

Chicagoans: J Robert Parks recommends catching Linda Linda Linda while you can.

For the Los Angeles Times, Susan King previews In a Lonely Place: The Rebellious Cinema of Nicholas Ray (December 15 through 20).

IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez previews the Dubai International Film Festival (tomorrow through December 17).

"So, yeah, we're Toon Town," writes the Oregonian's Shawn Levy. "But the rest of the world may not know it. Well, they soon will. In June 2007, Portland will be host to the Platform International Animation Festival, a tremendous conclave of screenings, competition, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, parties and more."

The Lumière Reader covers New Zealand's traveling Korean Film Festival.

Richard Gibson looks back on an evening with legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff.

Brian Darr writes an open letter to "the guy who decided it would be a good idea to loudly cough the word 'boring' on his way out of the theatre in the middle of The Story of Marie and Julien Friday night."

"Out 1 might be a little too big for one mind to comfortably accommodate, and so we've decided to share the burden." Reverse Shot features an exchange between James Crawford and Michael Joshua Rowin. More.

Cinematical's Kim Voynar lists seven docs she's looking forward to seeing at Sundance. James Urbaniak notes he'll be in two films there and SF360's Susan Gerhard sees has bits on three Sundance entries from Bay Area filmmakers.

Michael Guillén quite enjoyed his peek into the Cabinet of Curiosities: "Jonathan Marlow is, quite simply, a curatorial magician."

Posted by dwhudson at December 10, 2006 7:44 AM