Other fests and events, 5/16.

"Almost 30 years have passed since Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating - which screens Thursday at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part of an ongoing Rivette retrospective - made its Chicago premiere at Facets Multimedia (now Facets Cinematheque) in February '78, a full three and a half years after its initial French release," notes the Chicago Reader's Pat Graham. "I still recall the bewilderment and controversy that greeted it, not least in the Reader, which, in one of its more eccentric displays of editorial gamesmanship (or was it just covering its bets?), ran diametrically opposed reviews in the space of a year and half." The smackdown follows.

"Seventeen-year-old Betty Bronson was hand picked by author JM Barrie to play the boy who wouldn't grow up, in Paramount's star studded production of Peter Pan (1924)," writes David Jeffers at the Siffblog. "Delightful art direction (frolicking mermaids on the beach, flying pirate ships) and perfect casting (Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook and Mary Brian as Wendy) made Peter Pan a charming, magical holiday sensation in 1924." And it's screening this weekend at the Northwest Film Forum.

The McClintock Factor premieres in London tomorrow; infinite thØught has more.

In the Voice, J Hoberman preps New Yorkers for a whole lot of Werner Herzog.

Phil Nugent rounds up goings on in NYC, LA and Chicago for ScreenGrab.

CineVegas (June 6 through 16) announces its lineup.

The New York edition of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (June 14 through 28) is lined up as well.

For SF360, Jennifer Young and Laura Irvine ask Jeff Iorillo about the trailer he's shooting for Frameline 31, San Francisco's LGBT film festival (June 14 through 24).

Philadelphia's Big Bang Film Festival (October 17 through 21) sends out a call for entries.

ST VanAirsdale went to MoMA's party for Martin Scorsese.

Posted by dwhudson at May 16, 2007 12:05 PM