Fests and events, 11/29.

"Fusion, Outfest's program of films about LGBTQ people of color and the only festival of its kind, pulls in audiences like no other: Think queer theorists, questioning teenagers, the next generation's Vaginal Davis and, of course, your usual entertainment industry professionals," writes Margaret Wappler in her preview for the Los Angeles Times. Tomorrow through Sunday.

Also: Kevin Crust previews The Cinema Cabaret: Neo-Benshi Live Film Narration on Monday at REDCAT; briefly: the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival, December 5 through 15. Plus, Edgar Wright's "Wright Stuff" at the New Beverly Cinema; and more.

It's SF360 Movie Night. As Susan Gerhard explains, Sandrine Bonnaire's Her Name Is Sabine will be screening all over the Bay Area tonight.

On the occasion of today's screening of Lav Diaz's Death in the Land of Encantos in Manila, Tilman Baumgärtel describes a previous screening of Heremias in the Philippine Inquirer: "Members of the audience were free to enter and leave the cinema as they wished - go to the bathroom, get something to eat, or take a stroll. When one returned, there was a good chance it would be the same scene - which was at once comforting and awkward."

Romanian Cinema: The Golden Age is running in Tribeca Cinemas from today through December 2, and Tribeca Film Festival director Peter Scarlett offers an overview.

In the Austin Chronicle, Louis Black introduces Marc Savlov's interview with Lou Perryman and Sonny Carl Davis, the stars of The Whole Shootin' Match; a restored version will be screening at the Alamo Drafthouse from tomorrow through Thursday.

Also, Josh Rosenblatt describes how the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival will be going out with a bang this weekend.

And Mark Fagan talks with Vincent Gallo, whose band RRIICCEE plays the Alamo on Monday night.

"In recent years, Peter Greenaway has vanished so thoroughly into self-willed obscurity that it's hard to remember he was once discussed with the attentiveness that contemporary scholars of gnomic, overstuffed cinema lavish on Guy Maddin," writes Sam Adams in the Philadelphia City Paper. "Dating back to the dawn of Greenaway's feature film career, The Draughtman's Contract (1982) and A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) are clockwork contraptions encrusted with weighty ideas and sumptuous tableaux, a feast for the eyes and a puzzle for the head." And they're screening tonight and tomorrow at the International House.

Also, Shaun Brady: "The title of this quirky, eclectic collection of animated films and music videos from Sweden - Daydream Nation - may simply refer to the country's apparent penchant for surrealistic diurnal imaginings. But the immediate reference is to Sonic Youth's landmark 1988 album, a comparison that isn't entirely off the mark, given the way that these films echo the record's blend of off-kilter experimentation and harsh noise with pretty pop leanings." Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at local theaters.

At the Siffblog, David Jeffers is looking forward to Saturday at the Castro in San Francisco and the screenings of Intolerance and Flesh and the Devil. Update: More from Robert Avila at SF360.

If you're in London anytime between now and January 19, the Guardian's Jonathan Jones recommends catching new work by Jeff Wall at the White Cube; and I'll add that Jeff Wall: Exposure's on at the Deutsche Guggenheim through January 20. Related, and via wood s lot: Shep Steiner on Wall in Image and Narrative.

The Berlinale has given its short films section, now in its second year, a new, more straightforward name: Berlinale Shorts.

Posted by dwhudson at November 29, 2007 3:35 PM