Other fests, other events, 10/14.

"In recognition of their outstanding dedication to cinema, Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Ballhaus will receive honorary awards at the 20th European Film Awards on 1 December in Berlin."

Anne Wiazemsky's Jeune Fille, recalling her time with Robert Bresson during the making of Au Hasard Blathasar, was published at the beginning of the year and evidently well-received in France. On the occasion of the Bresson retrospective running at BFI Southbank through Wednesday, Hannah Westley revisits the book and notes, too, her relationships with Pasolini and Godard.

"Early Wednesday evening, I stopped by NYU's La Maison Française to take in a moderated conversation between my favorite filmmaker, Arnaud Desplechin, and Cahiers du cinéma editor-in-chief Jean-Michel Frodon about issues surrounding 'globalization in cinema and its effects on "French" film.'" Tom Hall's got notes and video. And Daniel Kasman reviews the film: "A small but far from diminutive gift comes from Arnaud Desplechin between fictional features Kings and Queen (2004) and the upcoming Un conte de Noël, a documentary (the director's first) set while the family moves out of one of several of the Desplechin family homes in the town of Roubaix."

The Oregonian's got a sprawling Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival preview package. Through October 21.

"The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is slumming this year," writes Annie Wagner in the Stranger. "Perhaps its producers at Three Dollar Bill Cinema are nervous about the specter of elitism after programming a run of high-minded 50s melodramas this spring (wasn't Tea and Sympathy fantastic?). Perhaps they actually think TV is interesting. Whatever the case, and in the absence of a generally acknowledged cultural moment in gay TV, this year's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is dedicated to television." Related: "[T]he bears presented in Bears come across as a pretty nice, caring bunch of guys," writes E Steven Fried at the Siffblog.

Stephanie Fischette files a first dispatch from Woodstock at Filmmaker. Update: IndieWIRE's got the award-winners.

The American-Statesman's Chris Garcia is blogging from the Austin Film Festival: 1 and 2.

At the Evening Class, "Frako Loden offers up some off-the-hip commentary on three documentaries she caught at this year's Mill Valley Film Festival," which'll be wrapping today.

"Showcasing one the hottest trends in contemporary art, Animated Painting features 25 cinematic works by 14 international contemporary artists who adapt traditional painting and drawing methods to the concepts and technologies of animation." Today through January 13 at the San Diego Museum of Art. Trailer.

"Recognising a spirituality in the work of Sam Taylor-Wood, [curator Meryl] Doney has chosen three of the artist's films for this three-week show at Wallspace, with each being shown on a continuous loop in successive weeks," writes Constance Wyndham in the Financial Times.

Art Machines / Machine Art: At the Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through January 27.

The Observer's Jason Solomons has tips on what to catch at the London Film Festival, opening Wednesday and running through November 1.

The 11th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation "casts its spotlight on five Academy Award-nominated female animators from Canada: Janet Perlman, Caroline Leaf, the duo of Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis and Torill Kove, the last of whom picked up the animated short film Oscar this year for her enchanting The Danish Poet," writes Susan King in the Los Angeles Times. On Wednesday, "The women's Oscar-nominated work will be screened, and critic Charles Solomon will moderate a panel discussion among them that will also celebrate the contributions of the National Film Board of Canada, for which all have worked."

Posted by dwhudson at October 14, 2007 9:02 AM