Other fests, other events, 8/29.

"Yo La Tengo, Saint Etienne, the Smiths: funny how the seeming dreariness of British bedsit movies inspired maybe even more great pop acts than did the French new wave visions of and for the children of Marx and Coca-Cola." The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Johnny Ray Huston previews the Pacific Film Archive series Look Back at England: The British New Wave, opening Sunday and running through October 26.

"The unique cachet of Telluride - which derives from the isolation and beauty of its location, the absolute secrecy that cloaks the program until mere hours before the opening program and the small number of passes... - is something neither [co-founder Tom] Luddy nor [new co-programmer Gary] Meyer wish to mess with," writes Michael Fox, with both for SF360.

"The New Crowned Hope festival, with which theater director Peter Sellars helped Vienna celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday last year, produced six features and a short that, having made the rounds of film festivals over the past year, now reach the MFA." Chris Fujiwara preps Boston Phoenix readers for Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, Paz Encina's Paraguayan Hammock, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt, Garin Nugroho's Opera Jawa and Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon.

NewFest carries on interviewing filmmakers lined up for NewFest@BAM, a series slated for September 7 through 9.

Acquarello posts the lineup for the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant Garde sidebar. September 28 through October 14.

Posted by dwhudson at August 29, 2007 2:24 PM