Weekend fests and events.

"2007 marks a year of massive change for Colorado's four-day Telluride Film Festival, which unfolds every Labor Day weekend." A preview from Variety's Anne Thompson. If you're going, and you want to be surprised by the lineup, don't click.

Stanley Kubrick, Director is a series running at SIFF Cinema in Seattle through September 6 and the Stranger runs a no-holds-barred assessment from Charles Mudede: "[This] is what Kubrick has to say about the state of everything: The world is shit, humans are shit in shit, life is worth shit, and there is nothing else that can be done about the situation. In Kubrick's movies, progress, sustained enlightenment, and moral improvement are impossible because the powers of reason, love, and religion are much weaker than the forces of generation and degeneration, desire and destruction, sex and death."

All over the festival circuit this season will be Sidney Lumet and his Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Martin A Grove has a longish backgrounder in the Hollywood Reporter. Via Movie City News.

"Swerve Festival is a new annual festival dedicated to celebrating West Coast creative culture and its community inspired by art, film, music and action sports." September 28 through 30 in Los Angeles.

"Starting on September 28, the Japan Society in New York will be running a monthly series of 8 classic Nikkatsu action films." Cinema Strikes Back has details on the series curated by Japan Times film writer Mark Schilling, whose new book is No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema.

Neil Young carries on reviewing films he's caught in Edinburgh. The festival wraps tomorrow.

New York: States of Mind has just opened in the newly restored House of World Cultures in Berlin. The exhibition and film program runs through November 4. Related: Cameron Abadi for Spiegel Online.

On the occasion of the BFI's Warhol season, running through the end of September, the Financial Times' Nigel Andrews imagines a conversation with the artist in 1987 - about 2007.

Posted by dwhudson at August 25, 2007 9:34 AM