Fests and events, 4/19.

Looks like quite an event: The Moving Image Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing. The schedule, with those speakers and journalists, ought to be pretty productive. Tomorrow through Tuesday.

Dispatches from the Sarasota Film Festival: David Lowery and Michael Tully.

Scott Foundas reviews the highlights of the final days of this year's City of Lights, City of Angels festival. Through Sunday. Also in the LA Weekly, Holly Willis: "Before his death in 2005, avant-garde filmmaker Mark Lapore spent many years traveling the world documenting people and places with a rare intensity and unequivocal gaze." The Intimate Distance: A Tribute to Mark Lapore takes place Monday night at REDCAT.

And Susan King points out some of the best of what else going on in and around LA for the Los Angeles Times.

"The 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival takes place April 20 - May 6 at museums, galleries, theatres, universities, and public spaces in and around the Boston area."

Britspotting, a festival of British and Irish films, opens tonight in Berlin and runs through Wednesday before moving on to Munich (May 10 through 15) and Stuttgart (May 17 through 23).

Visions du Réel, tomorrow through April 26 in Nyon.

Dead Channels' final Sleazy Sunday offers "an eccentric, tasteless, and delightful triple bill of movies that passed well under the mainstream radar when first released," writes Dennis Harvey at SF360.

Michael Hawley lays out his "SFIFF50 Gameplan" at the Evening Class. April 26 through May 10.

The Subjective Camera is a "series of retrospective film screenings of six film artists whose work examines subjectivity with an analysis of film language. Emerging within the context of the London Filmmakers' Co-op during the 80s and 90s, these artists each developed an independent practice that at once built on and countered the principles of the Structuralist film movement of the 70s." Wednesdays in London, beginning next week.

The San Francisco International Arts Festival: May 16 through 27.

At european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij has the first four titles in competition and more from the first round of announcements from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (June 29 through July 7).

"Winning a festival's audience award is getting to be old hat for Guido Thys's Tanghi Argentini, which followed up its amazing success at this year's Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival with a similar triumph at the 16th Aspen Shortsfest," writes Kim Adelman at indieWIRE.

Online viewing tip. Scott Westphal-Solary posts a teaser for The Reeler's Tribeca coverage.

Posted by dwhudson at April 19, 2007 3:55 PM