Fests and events, 1/8.

Jori Finkel in the New York Times on the latest from Doug Aitken: "For a month starting on Jan 16, the dramatic action (or by Hollywood standards, inaction) of his newest film, sleepwalkers, will unfold outdoors - on the facade and several other exterior walls of the Museum of Modern Art. The film is to run nightly from 5 to 10 pm."

And it's got stars: "He enlisted the actors Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton to play the business people, the drummer Ryan Donowho as the bike messenger, the singer-songwriter Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) as the postal worker and the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge as the electrician in charge of signs in Times Square." More from Sia Michel in New York.

"The first Woody Allen film the man himself actually directed, Take the Money and Run is at moments funny and inventive, but more often than not just a taste of things to come," writes mjr, extending Reverse Shot's coverage of the Essentially Woody series.

Though the Palm Springs International Film Festival runs on through January 15, it's held its gala and given out awards - to Babel, mostly. The AP reports.

Posted by cphillips at January 8, 2007 2:55 PM