Goings on. All over.

"The Wexner Center's exhibition space for video, The Box features varied works shown in an intimate setting. Screenings run continuously seven days a week." Currently on view through April: Scott Stark's More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda. And downloadable as a PDF is Chris Stults's accompanying essay.

At Twitch, Peter Martin notes that the "program for the Ninth Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, has been posted online. As usual, it's a stellar line-up." April 20 through 28.

David Bordwell has been saying hello and goodbye to just about everyone in the Hong Kong film industry, it seems.

Overviews in the Chicago Reader: Chicago's Baseball Film Festival (today and tomorrow) and the Chicago Latino Film Festival (today through April 26).

"Cine Las Americas opens this year's festival with Mexican filmmaker Francisco Vargas Quevedo's multi-award-winning drama, El Violín... a stunning film that dazzles with its deceptive simplicity," writes Claudia Alarcón in the Austin Chronicle. April 19 through 26.

Opening April 27 at the AFI Silver Theatre somewhere in the vicinity of the nation's capital and running through May 2 is the film David Gordon Green has called one of the best American independent films, if not the best American independent film in years, The Guatemalan Handshake.

"I know that it's sacrilege in some circles to put down Andrew Bujalski - whose films are easily among the best (only?) genuine contemporary American comedies - but [Reg] Harkema completely schools Bujalski when it comes to marrying observant comedy about young men and women today with real cinema," writes Robert Koehler in another of a string of ongoing dispatches to filmjourney.org from the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, which is screening all of the Canadian filmmaker's work. "In Harkema, there's editing, and the music that comes with this; it's simply not found - not yet anyway - in Bujalski's funny but comparatively static films."

"The prime audience for [Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I Have Known, at the Brattle this week] is arthouse adults, as some of the material is probably too licentious for approved teen watching. Too bad," sighs Gerald Peary. Also in the Boston Phoenix, Peter Keough's overview of jewishfilm.2007. Through April 22.

Accompanying the Vancouver International Film Centre's Czech New Wave series is an exhibition of "Czech Film Posters of the 20th Century," on display through April.

On tour in the UK: Geoff Smith on three hammered dulcimers, providing live accompaniment to Häxen: Witchcraft Through the Ages. The Independent's Charlotte Cripps meets him.

"The preselection process for the 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07 has been completed." May 16 through 20.

Bryan Hendrickson looks back at some recent goings on in Seattle for the Siffblog.

The deadline for submitting work to the DivX Film Festival has been extended to April 30.

Online viewing tip. IFC News presents SXSW 2007: Behind the Badge.

Posted by dwhudson at April 13, 2007 3:14 PM