Fests and events, 2/8.

Film Forum's three-week Sidney Lumet retrospective is now off and running and Reeler ST VanAirsdale collects a wide array of comments - many from people you know - on the man's work.

"With José Luis Guerín, the cinema returns to its origin in photography, and the questions the filmmaker poses about his art return to the fundamental relationship between the image and the world," writes Chris Fujiwara in the Boston Phoenix. "In Guerín's magnificent films, which will screen this weekend at the Harvard Film Archive, everything - narrative, composition, montage - exists between two boundaries. On one side, there's an experience that has metamorphosed into myth, so that it's impossible to be sure it ever actually happened. On the other, there's the place where the experience (may have) happened, as it will look after those who lived it have passed through and left."

DK Holm is all over the Portland International Film Festival for the Vancouver Voice: Parts 1 and 2. The Oregonian's Shawn Levy is posting away, too.

For the Los Angeles Times, Susan King talks with Ayuko Babu, exec director of the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, opening today and running through February 18.

"The New York-based film festival CineKink has announced their line-up for this year's event, which runs from February 26 to March 2," notes Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay. Also: Branden King's inside-Sundance report.

Posted by dwhudson at February 8, 2008 2:50 PM