Fests and events, 8/9.

"New Yorkers have been given the opportunity to binge on Asian movies over the last couple of months with the NY Asian Film Festival followed by the Asian American International Film Festival, and the feast doesn't stop there," notes Firecracker. "August 21 sees the opening of the NY Korean Film Festival, with a lineup featuring some of the latest and greatest Korean flicks from A Dirty Carnival to You Are My Sunshine, Radio Star to Bloody Tie."

Naman Ramachandran previews FrightFest for Cineuropa. August 23 through 27 in London.

"[E]arlier this summer, the world lost another of the great masters of modern world cinema, Senegal's Ousmane Sembène," Michael Sicinski reminds us in the Nashville Scene. "[T]he Belcourt is offering the chance this month to delve into Sembène's fascinating, aggressively modern world."

"I've always felt that 1995's Fallen Angels, which screens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from August 8 - 14 in honor of distributor Kino's 30th anniversary, provides the ideal channel for Wong [Kar-wai]'s strongest suits," writes Eric Kohn in the New York Press.

"The Castro is celebrating its impressive anniversary with a similar sundry of live music, shorts, and swashbuckling features this weekend, August 10 - 12." Max Goldberg at SF360 on a local institution. Related: "Continuing with the Evening Class celebration of the 85th anniversary... filmbud Brian Darr breaks from his own site Hell on Frisco Bay to offer up five functions the Castro performs for Bay Area cinephiles."

If you're in Los Angeles, AJ Schnack will tell you how to get a sneak peek at this year's documentaries most likely to be in the running for an Oscar.

Posted by dwhudson at August 9, 2007 1:25 PM