Weekend fests and events.

At Cinematical, Scott Weinberg, who'll be moderating participating, has an update on the "Panel of the Dead: Horror Films of Today" event at SXSW and a list of five horror flicks that'll rattle the lineup: Borderland, Grimm Love, Mulberry Street, Sisters and Them. Click Scott's name. He'll tell you what he knows about them so far.

Meanwhile, Matt Dentler mentions that Everything's Gone Green, written by Douglas Coupland, will see its US premiere at SXSW.

The program for the Berlinale's Generation section for kids and young adults is now complete. Also: "With Eat, Drink, See Movies: Celebrating Culinary Cinema, the 57th Berlin International Film Festival will present a new series of movies and events revolving around the topic of film, food and enjoyment."

Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films arrives at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Chicago Reader presents notes on the selections from Don Druker, Dave Kehr and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Jason Silverman reports for Wired News on "Sundance's eagerness to build its already-enviable global brand."

Written by Sam Fuller and directed by Douglas Sirk, Shockproof is being revived for a week at the Pioneer Theater in association with the a_film_by list for a week starting January 24. "On paper," writes Ed Gonzalez at Slant, "the film promises an exciting clash of sensibilities from two of the finest titans from the auteurist underground - the grime of The Naked Kiss swiped across the surface of Imitation of Life's fine china. On screen, this conflict is richly apparent, but Sirk's direction is disenchanted at times, and the script, a labyrinthine tale of emotional manipulation, feels tamed of its archness."

Leo Goldsmith at Not Coming to a Theater Near You from MoMA's Sven Nykvist: Remembered series: "Sandwiched between two of Bergman's great late-60s chamber pieces, An-Magritt is easily overlooked and is rarely screened in the US. But it is at least notable for bringing together two generations of Scandinavian cinema with three of its most central figures: the Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Norwegian actress (and later director) Liv Ullmann, and the most important of mid-century Norwegian directors, Arne Skouen, whose last film this is."

Posted by dwhudson at January 13, 2007 1:22 PM