Fests and events, 4/5.

The Austin Chronicle's Anne S Lewis discovers that Brian Cassidy, Aaron Hillis and Jennifer Loeber can give a very amusing interview. Fish Kill Flea screens April 11 at the Alamo.

Brandon Harris is posting dispatches from the Aspen ShortsFest. Through Sunday.

Robert Koehler carries on sending dispatches into filmjourney.org from the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival: "Morten Hartz Kaplers's AFR, a Danish whatsit that plays the same game (poorly) that Death of a President played (poorly) last year." And "is Kim Ki-duk still South Korea's worst filmmaker?" he wonders. After seeing Time, he decides, "yes." Also: "Aurélien Gerbault's intriguing and personal portrait of Pedro Costa, Tout refleurit (whose English title, All Blossom Again, hints at some of the film's innate optimism about the filmmaking process)... and the final film from that greatest of filmmaking couples, Straub-Huillet, Quei loro incontri."

"The Tribeca Film Festival today announced that Al Gore will host the fest's opening night gala on April 25, which will also feature seven SOS short films," writes Filmmaker's Nick Dawson. "SOS (Save Our Selves) is the organisation set up by Gore and Kevin Wall (the worldwide executive producer of the Live 8 concerts) to 'trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis,' and which is organizing Live Earth concerts around the globe on 07/07/07." Related: For the Times Literary Supplement, Robert May reviews a slew of books on global warming, including Al Gore's. ST VanAirsdale has more Tribeca news at the Reeler.

Variety rounds up the latest on Cannes.

Scott Foundas's "guide to the best of the rest of [Tarantino's] grindhouse fest" at the New Beverly Cinema in LA. In the Los Angeles Times, Susan King rounds up the dates and times for several other local goings on.

For the Philadelphia City Paper, Mickey Jou previews tomorrow's Reel Travel: A Penn Humanities Forum Symposium.

Michael Guillén's got entries on a variety of events in the Bay Area.

Posted by dwhudson at April 5, 2007 2:10 PM