Weekend fests and events.

"Stan Douglas's most recent art video, Klatsassin, now at David Zwirner Gallery [through February 10], is both a murder mystery and a western," writes Bridget L Goodbody in the New York Times. "It doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, follow Hollywood's narrative formulas. Instead, like his film Inconsolable Memories (2005), currently showing at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Klatsassin makes clear that while most Hollywood films have one basic story to tell, Mr Douglas has many."

"I defy anyone to travel in [New York City] for more than a few miles without seeing or hearing some mention of Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, the immense video installation projected on the MoMA façade through Feb 12," writes Paddy Johnson at the Reeler, where he notes "the real genius of the project: the marketing."

Jonny Leahan previews the docs of February for indieWIRE.

Mathis Winkler reports for the Deutsche Welle (and in English) on Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick's recent worries: "'Things are getting more and more complicated when it comes to film festivals,' Kosslick told German daily Die Welt. 'There's a boom in festivals and a boom in film markets, with millions invested in them.'"

The Lumière Reader's filing dispatches from New Zealand's World Cinema Showcase.

The Hole Story screens for free on Monday in Brooklyn.

Andy Klein previews the third Animation Show for the LA CityBeat: "Once again, the selection of 12 films tips a little more toward the serious than the comic; or maybe it would be accurate to say that it tips largely toward the weird, with a lot of technical diversity."

Redcat selects a nice blurb for its February 12 program, The Celestial Library: Films by Jeanne Liotta: "A symphony for the senses." From: Senses of Cinema. So there you go.

Alonso Duralde will be bringing his famous clip-illustrated talk about 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men to Outfest in LA on Wednesday, February 21.

At Twitch, Todd points to the lineup for the Fantasporto Festival, "one of the major Fantastic film festivals in the world." February 23 through March 3.

Chicagoans: Jonathan Rosenbaum points to Cine-File, a "Chicago Guide to Independent and Underground Cinema."

"Anyone with a negative view of the small screen would have had their ideas shaken up considerably if they had visited Fipa (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels), now in its 20th year, which is held annually in January in Biarritz," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. "They would have been astonished by the vast range and depth of fiction films and documentaries made for the small screen, several of which get picked up for release in the cinemas. Because a majority of films are shot digitally nowadays, the line between television films and 'film' films is fading fast."

Online viewing tip. Cinematical interviews Sundance festival director Geoff Gilmore.

Posted by dwhudson at February 3, 2007 2:17 PM