Weekend fests and events.

"For the second year running, MoMA's Department of Film, in collaboration with Independent Feature Project (IFP) and its quarterly publication Filmmaker, will screen the five nominees for the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award."

The screenings are happening as you read this (in fact, they started yesterday) and run through tomorrow. At indieWIRE, Kim Voynar introduces each of the nominees, while at Filmmaker, Jason Guerrasio's got a video intro. The films: August the First, Frownland, Loren Cass, Mississippi Chicken and Off The Grid: Like on the Mesa.

"Warhol Week Is On!!" at Facets in Chicago.

"Horror is not, nor has it ever been, my thing," clarifies Nancy Rosenbaum at the outset. "That's why when MovieMaker asked me to find out why so many horror film festivals have started up in recent years, I hesitated at first. But then I reconsidered: I thought that perhaps people like Belofsky could explain the appeal of this seemingly unseemly genre and shed some light on why so many indies are making films about zombies, slashers and headless horsemen on their own dimes." A related list: "Horror Fests in Your Neighborhood."

Among the highlights of this year's Viennale for Ronald Bergan: Hartmut Bitomsky's Staub, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Europa 2005, 27 October, a lecture from Jean-Pierre Gorin, "19 programs of mostly fascinating short films made from 1919 to the Anschluss, depicting various aspects of proletarian life in Austria," and a tribute to Jane Fonda.

Posted by dwhudson at November 17, 2007 2:04 PM