GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 3/22.

March 22, 2007

Fests and events, 3/22.

"This weekend the IFP and Filmmaker will be hosting four screenings of Michael Tucker's The Prisoner, or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair," announces Scott Macaulay. I'll write more about this one later, but for now, let me just say: Do catch this one if you can. But don't take my word for it: see Michelle Orange's review in the Voice.

Meanwhile, Nick Dawson: "The force of nature that is Kelley Baker - better known as The Angry Filmmaker - is currently on tour bringing his screenings and workshops to universities and theaters around the country over the next two months or so." Both Filmmaker blog entries feature embedded online viewing.

"Back in my favorite city." David Bordwell's blogging from the just-opened Hong Kong International Film Festival (through April 11) and lists the winners of the first Asian Film Awards. More photos.

"Lionel Rogosin's 1956 movie On the Bowery, an account of skid row life that screens Friday and Saturday in a new 35mm print at New York's Anthology Film Archives, is a rare work that hasn't aged in any way that counts," writes Matt Zoller Seitz at the House Next Door. The Reeler has notes on more New York events.

On Sunday, Jonas Mekas will be at Pink Pony in NYC to sign books with his brother, Adolfas.

For SF360, Jennifer Young asks "actors and filmmakers roaming [the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival] to give props to their favorite Asian American artist, past or present." Also, Miljenko Skoknic: "The driving idea behind the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival GreenWorld Contest, presented by the SFIFF and Yahoo! Video, is to bring the vision of filmmakers to the forefront of environmental discourse."

Michael Guillén's taken extensive notes during the Q&A with Justin Lin and the cast of Finishing the Game. And: "It's truly heartwarming to see how much Jesse Hawthorne Ficks is beloved by his MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS fans and - more interestingly - how he cheerleads their adoration. The man knows how to work a crowd."

Tonight's double feature in the Fidelity and Betrayal: Variations on the Remake series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl (1983) and Michele O'Marah's Valley Girl (2002). Lynn Rapoport and Cheryl Eddy offer their fun takes in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

"The pickings this year at the ninth Boston Underground Film Festival are relatively slim," writes Peter Keough. "Perhaps the Internet has drawn off some of the more accomplished, daring, and transgressive filmmakers." Also in the Boston Phoenix, Steve Vineland on Claude Jutra and Michel Brault, "the twin subjects of the marvelous Harvard Film Archive series Candid Eyes, which begins Saturday and runs through April 1."

"This week, International House offers viewers unvarnished access to the cinematic heart of a nation whose filmmakers have long been underrepresented," writes Mary Wilson in the Philadelphia City Paper. " A three-day showcase of Syrian-made films - encompassing shorts, documentaries and full-length features - looks to provide honest glimpses into contemporary life in the Middle Eastern nation." Today through Saturday.

"At SIFF Cinema, the celluloid birthday party for Janus Films 50th continues!" Bryan Hendrickson reports on the third week at the Siffblog.

"Fiction, the Spanish winner of the best film award at Argentina's Mar del Plata film festival last night, didn't get the wild applause that greeted City in Heat, the film that won the festival audience's hearts and the electronic public vote," blogs Claire Rigby for the Guardian. "But while City in Heat's wisecracking, tango-drenched script had audiences roaring and clapping, Fiction - measured and thoughtful, with elegant, subtle performances from its cast - put down deeper roots, perhaps, in those who saw it."

Mike posts the lineup for the New York Underground Film Festival at Bad Lit. March 28 through April 3.

At Cinema Strikes Back, Blake notes that the full schedule for this year's Nippon Connection is up. April 18 through 22 in Frankfurt.

At Twitch, Mack notes that Hot Docs has announced its lineup. April 19 through 29.

Werner Herzog, Godard... in the Los Angeles Times, Susan King notes local goings on.

Jim Campbell's Home Movies, on view at the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco through April 28 (via Jonathon Keats at Rhizome), while Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell is open at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma through June 3.

Art Daily has news of on an upcoming exhibition at the CCS Galleries of Bard College curated by Özkan Cangüven: "In We Love Cinema artists and filmmakers, including Javier Cambre, Jason Dee, Harun Farocki, Christoph Girardet, Gustavo Galuppo, Kara Hearn, Ömer Ali Kazma, Matthias Müller, Tejal Shah and Krassimir Terziev, use various strategies to analyze and question cinema."

The Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series moves on to London (March 29 through April 1). Charlotte Cripps has a preview for the Independent.

Geoff Manaugh has an amazing update on the architectural film fest that'll be part of the Silver Lake Film Festival in May.

If you're in Iowa at the time, you can make Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 through 27, a David Lynch Weekend.

"Tim Burton will be honored with the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award and a Tim Burton Day at the 64th annual Venice International Film Festival in the fall." Eric J Lyman has more in the Hollywood Reporter.