Fests and events, 5/14.

"A Lady to Talk About: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck, set to open Friday night at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood's Hammer Museum, will showcase 18 of the films - from 1931's Night Nurse and The Miracle Woman through 1957's Sam Fuller-directed Forty Guns - that led to the old adage that Stanwyck was the best actress never to win an Oscar," notes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. "She was that, and more."

Accompanied by three programs of films, arsenal experimental is presenting the new volume 1, 2, 3,... Avant- Gardes on May 16 and 17 in Berlin.

Mike's got the award-winners from this weekend's New Haven Underground Festival at Bad Lit.

The Tate Modern will be screening Derek Jarman's early Super 8 films with live accompaniment by Throbbing Gristle on May 26. Don't rush over there, by the way, the event's sold out. Meantime, via Movie City News, Tim Teeman rounds up several recollections of Jarman from the likes of Tilda Swinton and Ken Russell for the London Times.

"Billed as 'an old-fashioned movie matinee twofer or a cinematic yin and yang' SF Indiefest presents two... two... two fests in one!" exclaims Michael Guillén. Get Animated in the daylight hours and Another Hole in the Head at night: June 1 through 14.

The Traverse City Film Festival announces a trailer contest. Deadline: June 22.

Kristan Horton has seen Dr Strangelove over 700 times. Naturally, his "perception was saturated by the film," leading to Dr Strangelove Dr Strangelove, which Nicole Pasulka asks him about for the Morning News. It'll be on view at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver from June 29 through August 19. Via Coudal Partners.

Marine Hugonnier's Trilogy screens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through July 22.

Michael Guillén enjoys a double bill Yerba Buena Center for the Arts curator Joel Shepard put together to delight San Franciscans with on Thursday, The Wild Pussycat and Drum.

Posted by dwhudson at May 14, 2007 6:33 AM