Fests and events, 7/8.

Starting Wednesday, it'll be screening in New York and Chicago.

Last night the Karlovy Vary Film Festival announced its awards and wrapped its 42nd edition, and it turned out to be "a good night for films from the European north," notes Boyd van Hoeij at european-films.net, "with Baltasar Kormákur's Icelandic noir Myrin (Jar City) winning the Crystal Globe for Best Film and Norway's Bård Breien winning Best Director for his feel-bad comedy Kunsten å tenke negativt (The Art of Negative Thinking). The Estonian film Klass (The Class) from director Ilmar Raag won the Europa Cinemas Label and a Special Mention in the East of the West Competition."

Vince Keenan's weekend at Noir City Northwest: Pitfall and Woman on the Run.

One of Anthony Slide's many books is Now Playing: Original Movie Posters From the 1910s to the 1950s, and several examples of those posters are on view at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study. Susan King has more in the Los Angeles Times.

For SF360, Sean Uyehara talks with Stacey Wisnia, the new executive director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (Friday through Sunday).

For the New York Times, Linda Yablonsky views 50,000 Beds, "a collaborative video project involving 45 artists, 30 Connecticut hotels and 3 of the state's art institutions: the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Real Art Ways in Hartford and Artspace in New Haven. Conceived and designed by Chris Doyle, a Brooklyn artist whose own videos give insensate objects like lawn chairs and hot dogs what appear to be active sex lives, the project represents a new wrinkle in cultural tourism."

In Austin, Jette Kernion's been catching movies in the Paramount's Summer Classic Film Series.

Posted by dwhudson at July 8, 2007 3:07 PM