Fests and events, 6/19.

At the Lumière Reader, "Tim Wong previews with enthusiasm a winter savior, the Telecom 2007 New Zealand International Film Festivals program, due out to much anticipation this week."

From the Newport International Film Festival, AJ Schnack files "Part 2 of 4 in my series of reports from the June Film Festival Frenzy (TM). Q. Whatever happened to part 1? A. No one promised these would be in order."

Also frenzied these days is Matt Dentler: "It was a blizzard of festivals around America this past week/weekend. You had Silverdocs, CineVegas, Seattle and Nantucket. In some cases (like The Devil Came on Horseback) films and filmmakers attended all four... as exhausting as that may sound." And watching from afar, keeping score, is Michael Tully.

From the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, in New York through June 28: "Combining elements of documentary, re-enactment, serial comics, and even metafilm, Strange Culture poses the integral question of artistic freedom in an age of aggressive and increasingly emboldened federal government prosecution," writes acquarello. Watch the trailer at the DVBlog.

Recent takes on Manufactured Landscapes: Robert Cashill and Bryant Frazer and, at IFC News, Matt Singer.

"Roaring into town to punish evil-doers and please all lovers of the esoteric, the weird and the wonderful, the New York Asian Film Festival returns with a line-up of films from Korea, Japan, China, Pakistan, Thailand and Hong Kong." Matt Singer and Alison Willmore celebrate at IFC News.

The Los Angeles Times previews the Mods & Rockers Film Festival, running July 13 through August 1.

At filmjourney.org, Robert Koehler lists his "final rankings of the films across all sections that I saw before, during and just after Cannes, from best to worst."

The Pop View Silverdocs reviews: Chicago 10, Big Rig, Fredrick Wiseman's State Legislature, Hip-Hop Revolution and Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.

Andy Spletzer wraps his SIFF coverage.

Posted by dwhudson at June 19, 2007 12:50 PM