Fests and events, 5/13.

"Miranda July is making another movie?" asks the Playlist. "Yes. We tried to ask him about it afterward, but got cockblocked from some wealthy, air-kissing sycophants, but during the Q&A following a Brooklyn screening of Ken Park, the co-director and lauded cinematographer Ed Lachman revealed his next project would be lensing July's next film."

Andrew Hultkrans was there, too, for Artforum, and writes of Ken Park, "As with Kids, it's hard to know what to make of this stuff. The characters and situations are compelling, and Lachman's cinematography is masterful throughout, with sickly green lighting for interiors and crisp, bright sunny exteriors heightening the contrast with the teens' dark lives."

The Cinematography of Ed Lachman runs through May 20.

At FilmInFocus, Scott Macaulay reports on From Here to Awesome, "a cross-platform, multi-venue film festival that exploits the internet and extends the logic of the open source movement to film exhibition." The "festival aims to whip up a flurry of buzz around an exciting new group of filmmakers and then leverage that excitement into immediate sales via an assortment of online distributors and retailers."

Sujewa Ekanayake has a longish exchange on the state of things with Maryland Film Festival director Jed Deitz.

A DK Holm Film Festival is in the works, slated for the summer, and Doug reviews on the titles to be lined up: "Instead of being a pile of crap, like most dimly remember films seen finally decades later, Unearthly Stranger works, in a Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents sort of way, with limited sets and lots of dialogue to make up for the lack of special effects."

For indieWIRE, Shane Danielsen looks back on the Jeonju International Film Festival: "It's worth pointing out, I think, that every Korean feature I saw at Jeonju was shot on HD digital, and irrespective of their success or failure as individual works, they looked little short of breathtaking - their jewel-like clarity due in part to recent refinements in technology, and partly to the high standard of Korean technicians."

Back in Boston: Both Katherine Follett and Rumsey Taylor review Trent Harris's Beaver Trilogy at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

Updated again today: "Anticipating Cannes."

Posted by dwhudson at May 13, 2008 12:58 PM