Fests and events, 1/1.

Though San Francisco's Berlin & Beyond series won't get rolling until January 11, Michael Guillén's already all over it, previewing the lineup, Doris D�rrie's Der Fischer und seine Frau (The Fisherman and His Wife) and Matthias Glasner's Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) and talking with John Arellano, one of the creators of the trailer for this year's series.

"Lauren Bacall would never have done that for anyone, would never have stripped and had them shoot her bare arse from the back as she trotted through take after take. The Hawksian woman would have decked any man who asked her." That's Germaine Greer on Belle de Jour. See, Part One of the Luis Bu�uel season is running concurrently with the Bogart and Bacall season at the National Film Theatre in London throughout January, and that give Greer an opportunity to contrast the careers and personas of Bacall and Catherine Deneuve: "The Hawksian woman was an idea that flourished at a time of crisis, in the depression and during the war, when the full energies of women were needed if they were to survive. After the war she was supplanted by the female eunuch, weighed down with huge hair and false eyelashes, unequal to any challenge - all things to all men and nothing to herself."

Also in the Guardian: "Eastman Kodak launched its new Kodachrome film in 1936, and, within three years, it was outselling black and white. Nevertheless, 70 years on, the most iconic images of that beleaguered decade are studies in grey." Sean O'Hagan on the exhibition Bound for Glory: America in Colour 1939-1943 at the Photographers' Gallery in London through January 28: "It is a record of a lost America in every sense of the word."

In the Independent, Charlotte Cripps previews the Japanimation series at the Barbican: "[T]he first event will reveal how Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and David Fincher's Se7en (1995) influenced Satoshi Kon's animated psychological thriller Perfect Blue (1998)."

"The movies featured in the American Cinematheque's Overlooked and Underrated festival don't pop up often on TV and are rarely screened," writes Susan King in the Los Angeles Times. The series runs from Thursday through February 8.

Posted by dwhudson at January 1, 2007 10:53 AM