Fests and events, 4/12.

"The forthcoming exhibition of jazz-related movies, posters, video clips and merchandise at the Museum of Modern Art is dauntingly vast, but its title could not be plainer: Jazz Score." Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times: "Those two words encompass the exhibition's breadth and depth as well as its provocative omissions, and they allude to jazz's complex, somewhat wary interaction with cinema - one that's fundamentally different from the alliance between film and its longtime go-to music source, classical."

Joe Leydon's all set to go the Nashville Film Festival. April 17 through 24.

"Once you've been to the Williamsburg, Brooklyn bar/experimental restaurant/performance space [Monkey Town], which features a four-screen, communal comfy couch, 6.1 surround-sound 'theater in the round' as its centerpiece, you'll wonder why you spend ten bucks or more sitting like a zombie in an outdated, auditorium-style dive with a bucket of stale popcorn and your feet stuck to the ground," writes Lauren Wissot at the House Next Door. "And in keeping with its mission to go beyond the cutting edge, Monkey Town recently offered a four-day festival of Silent Films + Unique Instruments, the first screening of which - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) scored with 'pencilina' and cello - was an innovative delight." Through Sunday.

"Director John Maybury's Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love has been announced as the Opening Gala of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) that runs June 18 - 29." Naman Ramachandran reports for Cineuropa.

In the San Francisco Bay Area? Do check in with Brian Darr.

Posted by dwhudson at April 12, 2008 11:24 AM