Fests and events, 1/21.

Popnutten's reporting that Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic, Control, will see its world premiere at the Berlinale. Rumor? Do a little googling, and you'll find lots of confirmation, but I can't remember it appearing in any earlier announcements from the festival itself.

Matt Riviera previews the Adelaide International Film Festival (February 23 through March 4).

"Buñuel is routinely described as a 'surrealist' director, which I guess is correct, but it's still a reductive label," writes Peter Bradshaw on the occasion of the retrospective at the National Theatre in London. "Maybe it is more accurate to describe him as a cinematic director, one of the few available in that Greenaway-esque sense, a director who senses that cinema endows an artist with the license to challenge and even abolish the constraints of time and space and social convention."

Posted by dwhudson at January 21, 2007 3:24 PM