Weekend fests and events.

"It's not surprising that residents of Mar Del Plata would be so committed to their Festival, as its existence has never quite been a sure thing," writes Dan Goldberg at indieWIRE. "While the de Chirico-esque posters all around town proclaim this to be the 22nd Annual Festival, the event has had an irregular presentation schedule that in many ways mirrors Argentina's turbulent political history." Related: AJ Schnack: "Photo Essay: An Evening in Mar del Plata."

"Fish Kill Flea, a little dream of a documentary that we fell in lasting love with during SXSW, is playing the Austin Film Society's Documentary Tour on April 11," notes Sarah Lindner at the Austin Movie Blog. Related: Matt Dentler rounds up a great bunch o'links to news and reviews from SXSW, Alison Willmore post four excellent SXSW capsule reviews at the IFC Blog, and an online listening tip: SpoutBlog's wrap-up.

Michael Fox at SF360: "Steve Polta of the [San Francisco] Cinematheque has programmed a show of work by [Dean] Snider and Greg Sharits this Sunday, March 25 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that he describes as an effort to revive two of the more shadowy figures in the Bay Area avant-garde."

Peter Martin previews AFI Dallas for Twitch. Through April 1.

Michael Guillén previews a month of "Sleazy Sundays" hosted by Dead Channels: The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film.

Brian Darr presents Jennifer Young's transcription of the Q&A with Hong Sang-soo at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

Sujewa Ekanayake has an update on this fall's Kensington Real Independent Film Festival.

The Chicago Reader has a few tips for the locals regarding the Traveling Film South Asia Festival (through April 13).

Nick Pinkerton at Reverse Shot on On the Bowery, screening for a week at the Anthology Film Archives: "The precedents for this film are all outside of cinema: Weegee's flash-flooded pictures of desiccated burlesque at Sammy's-on-the-Bowery (Arthur Leipzig, Fred Stein and Fritz Neugass likewise deserve mention); Joseph Mitchell's detailed portraits of downtown pariahs and eccentrics for The New Yorker.... As such, before admiring what one might call On the Bowerys artistic accomplishment, we should pay our respects to the very physical task of the film.... What may be most remarkable about [director Lionel] Rogosin is how so many currents of the cinema in his time seem to intersect through his small body of work..."

"[I]f you happen to be near Boulder, Colorado in a few weeks (April 9 - 13, 2007)," calls out Jim Emerson, "come by Macky Auditorium on campus at 4 pm and join us to sit in the dark and talk about detective movies, noir, the history of LA, the Department of Water and Power, William Mulholland and the St. Frances Dam catastrophe, Johnny LaRue, eyes, doors and windows, venetian blinds, orange groves, fish, monstrous evil, kitty-cats, and the nose on your face. (And that's just for starters.) It's free, and, as they say, so much fun it's a wonder it's still legal."

"As some of you will no doubt know, BLDGBLOG and Materials & Applications have co-organized an awesome event coming up on Tuesday, May 8, from 8-10pm, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena," Geoff Manaugh reminds us. "It will be part of this year's Silver Lake Film Festival. The speakers? Ryan Church, James Clyne, Mark Goerner and Ben Procter, discussing artistic connections between film, architecture, science fiction, and the city. The venue? A converted wind tunnel, formerly owned and operated by Douglas Aircraft, recently rehabbed by Daly Genik Architects."

Online browsing tip. Ray Pride, back in Thessaloniki.

Posted by dwhudson at March 24, 2007 4:16 PM