September 4, 2007

Other fests, other events, 9/4.

Melbourne Underground Film Festival Matthew Clayfield has programmed the Melbourne Underground Film Festival Avant sidebar: "For all their differences, the films of Evan Mather and David Lowery are, in some respects, very similar. Specifically, they are the films of artists who are similarly concerned with the intricacies of place, memory, nostalgia, imagination, and the physical processes of filmmaking itself.... This will be the first time either filmmakers' work has screened in Australia." September 20 through 30.

Sessue Hayakawa: East and West, When the Twain Met is a series running at MOMA from Wednesday through September 16 and Michael Guillén interviews Daisuke Miyao, author of Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom.

Brian Darr buckles down for the autumn season in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"The Paramount and Seattle Theater Group will screen Charles Chaplin's entire Mutual Film Corporation catalog in chronological order over four successive Monday nights, beginning on September 10," notes David Jeffers at the Siffblog. "In recent correspondence with noted Hollywood author and silent era child star Diana Serra Cary, whose screen name was Baby Peggy, we discussed Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Diana's childhood friend Jackie Coogan."

For the WSWS, Steve James looks back to Edinburgh, focusing on Joseph Cedar's Beaufort and Jim Threapleton's Extraordinary Rendition. Then: Li Yang's Blind Mountain, Adam Rapp's Blackbird and Jaime Rosales's Solitary Fragments.



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Posted by dwhudson at September 4, 2007 6:47 AM

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Thanks for the mention, David!

I wish that Hayakawa series were coming to SFMOMA (though the program of East German cinema they're about to start running looks tantalizing enough, though I'd feel completely lost as to which to attend without that GreenCine primer on the subject). Michael's probably en route to Toronto right now, but it seems he's branching out to anticipate film series in other cities as well; the Hayakwa films are plahying in New York.

Posted by: Brian at September 4, 2007 4:29 PM

Dave, I wish the Hayakawa retrospective was at SFMoma; but, it's actually at MOMA in New York. We'll be lucky to get what we get at PFA.

Amidst the jewels that Brian culls out of the Bay region calendars, I'm most excited about the RKO lineup at the Roxie. What a treat to see these on a big screen!

Posted by: Maya at September 4, 2007 6:32 PM

Thanks for catching that, Brian and Michael. I guess in my mind it just seemed like a San Francisco sort of series.

Brian, if you catch The Legend of Paul and Paula, you won't be seeing a great film, but you'll be seeing one that's had an incredible following, playing for years in Berlin long after the Wall fell.

Posted by: David Hudson at September 4, 2007 10:13 PM

And this just in... Daisuke Miyao will be a guest on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Posted by: David Hudson at September 4, 2007 11:36 PM

Thanks for the tips!

Posted by: Brian at September 6, 2007 10:13 AM