Other fests, other events, 5/25.

"Its magical role on screen makes Grand Central the ideal location for Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, an ambitious exhibition of films, photographs and sets that begins today in Vanderbilt Hall, adjacent to the main concourse," writes Caryn James in the New York Times. "The project was put together by James Sanders, based on his 2001 book of the same title, which shrewdly observes that two New Yorks - the real city and the screen fantasy - feed each other in a never-ending circle."

"I attended the world premiere of the processed Out 1 at the Rotterdam Film Festival in early 1989, a decade after I'd edited a book on Rivette that partially focused on the film," recalls Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader as the full series heads to the Gene Siskel Film Center this weekend, followed by Out 1: Spectre on June 9. About that book: "It's out of print now, but the contents are available at jacques-rivette.com." At any rate: "The screening was total dream fulfillment for a cinephile, but I was shocked when only four or five others showed up for it, so it's been gratifying to see it more recently become not just available but fashionable - the adventure it was always meant to be."

"The Tate Liverpool's Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era exhibition pulls in today at the Whitney Museum, just in time for the solstice of that season's 40th anniversary," notes Nick Hallett at the Reeler. "The two floors of hallucinatory artifacts exhaustively culled by Christoph Grunenberg from the twilight of the 1960s, while focusing mainly on rock memorabilia... also give due recognition to the experimental cinema traditions of that era." More frmo Holland Cotter in the NYT.

Another Hole in the Head, the San Francisco Independent Film Festival's summer celebration of all things horrific, runs June 1 through 14. At SF360, Michael Guillén: "Owning up to my own idiosyncratic tastes, here are five I would recommend from this year's line-up."

"Two days before the end of the first-annual H&M High Line Festival, performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson stood onstage at the Highline Ballroom and asked, 'Don't you love whores?'" reports for Artforum. "The festival's producers, Josh Wood and David Binder, and its curator, David Bowie, surely would have rather avoided the question. But Anderson has a knack for this sort of persistent fragment - what novelist Jonathan Lethem once called 'an itchy or gummy phrase' - and so it stuck."

Posted by dwhudson at May 25, 2007 12:10 PM