Fests and events, 1/17.

"More like Wild Kingdom than Girls Gone Wild, the CineKink 2007 series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts neutrally observes sexual transgression: the forms it takes, the relief it offers, and the privacy it (often jubilantly) breaches." Sara Schieron previews a few selections in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

At Cinematical, Jeffrey M Anderson notes that Inland Empire will open the San Francisco Independent Film Festival (February 8 through 20).

"The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival is putting out a call to filmmakers who would like to submit their best 'grindhouse trailer,' in honor of the April release from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse. A sample of the best submissions will be judged by Rodriguez himself, and presented during SXSW, on March 11, 2007."

What a fine and lively wrap-up of the Palm Springs International Film Festival at indieWIRE from Brandon Judell.

Opening with a quick overview of Tales of the Brothers Quay, a series running at Film Forum from Friday through January 25, J Hoberman runs through a list of several cinematic goings on in New York over the next week or so. Also in the Voice, Nathan Lee previews Global Lens, 2007, today through January 28.

Cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky is "experiencing what must be a gratifying burst of critical attention," writes Andrew Pulver in the Guardian. A "film season that puts Suschitzky's work together with his son's is showing at the Riverside Studios in London this week, alongside a photographic exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum. And, finally, an Austrian publisher has compiled the first proper book of Suschitzky's photography."

Posted by dwhudson at January 17, 2007 9:04 AM