Weekend fests and events.

"[M]y Fish Kill Flea co-directors and I have been waiting half an eternity for this one," writes Aaron Hillis. The NYC premiere will be July 21 at Rooftop Films, and what's more, the film is only part of what looks to be quite a program for that Saturday night.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, stop the presses!" yells Todd at Twitch. "Uwe Boll has made a good movie. This is not a joke." It's Postal and he caught it at the Fantasia Festival. Meantime, more reviews, they just keep on coming.

Michael Moore has announced the lineup for the Traverse City Film Festival. July 31 through August 5.

The lineup's in place for the Edinburgh International Film Festival. August 15 through 26.

"Like the jury of the 50th anniversary edition, for its 75th anniversary the jury of the Venice Film Festival will be made up exclusively of directors." Boyd van Hoeij's got the roster at european-films.net. And Fabien Lemercier has news on probable French entries at Cineuropa. And the BBC reports that Ang Lee's Lust, Caution will be competing. August 29 through September 8.

With the series of Midnight Mass weekends underway, Michael Guillén has a long talk with Joshua Grannell (aka Peaches Christ): Parts 1 and 2.

Vince Keenan: "On the last night of Noir City, bad girls ruled."

The Lumière Reader posts another round of reviews from the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals.

Sujewa Ekanayake is blogging the week-long run of Date Number One in Kensington, MD. Michael Tully interviews him, too.

"For those of you in the Eastern Pennsylvania region who missed the massive SouthSide Film Festival in Bethlehem last month (you know who you are), you have one night to catch up on the best films, July 19." A heads-up from Mike Everleth at Bad Lit.

At the Reeler:

• Annaliese Griffin "braved a torrential downpour on Wednesday to see Vera Cruz, one of Robert Aldrich's most celebrated Westerns. Screening as part of BAM's Overlooked Aldrich series, Vera Cruz stars Gary Cooper as Ben Trane, a former Confederate soldier traveling through Mexico."

• "Perhaps the standout selections" of Premiere Brazil! 2007 for ST VanAirsdale are "Hector Babenco's 1981 landmark Pixote: The Law of the Weakest and its 2005 companion doc Pixote in Memoriam. Through July 23 at MoMA.

• "I learned two things about Abel Ferrara Thursday evening. He doesn't seem to care much for Q&As, and he likes for the afterparty to be close by." Christopher Campbell attends a screening of King of New York.

"At Guerilla Drive-In screenings, you don't shell out $12 for tickets or stretch out in stadium seats," writes Steve Chawkins. "Instead, you join a hundred or more cinema fans draped in blankets and hunkered down amid the weeds, watching films projected onto random walls."

Also in the Los Angeles Times: "Movies are popping up all over this summer, with screenings in such diverse locations as ranches, cemeteries and town plazas." Susan King rounds up several local goings on.

In New York? Check in with Michael Lerman at indieWIRE or Christopher Bonet at IFC News or, of course, the Reeler.

In Karlovy Vary, Ronald Bergan listened in as a distinguished panel discussed American movies from the 70s - why they were so terrific and what the hell happened after Star Wars.

The Rhode Island International Film Festival is looking for shorts. Entry's free but there is a cash prize.

Online browsing tip. Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918 - 1945, at the National Gallery of Art through September 3. Via wood s lot.

Online listening tip. An MP3 of the "LonelyGirl15: A Case Study" at SXSW in March.

Posted by dwhudson at July 14, 2007 1:20 PM