Fests and events, 5/22.

From Jennifer McMillan comes word that P Adams Sitney will be giving a talk at Light Industry in New York on May 27. Three short films (by Marie Menken, Ernie Gehr and Stan Brakhage) will be screened; his talk will be based on the argument he presents in Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson.

"It's tempting to credit film curator Joel Shepard with a sorcerer's clairvoyance, because the Witchcraft Weekend he has programmed for the screening room at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is so damned prescient," writes Johnny Ray Huston in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

"The Paramount's Summer Film Series begins tonight with, as is traditional at the Paramount, Casablanca," notes Austin-based Jette Kernion. "This year, the film is paired with Key Largo for a Bogie double-feature."

Blogging for Reverse Shot, eshman on Godard's Le Gai savoir and Un Film comme les autres: "Both films seek a new language for film and for society in the months after May 68, and as such both succeeded in offering a wholly fresh, if frequently inscrutable discourse. That audiences were (and are) bound to disengage from that discourse would seem to reveal the folly of Godard's revolutionary project, but seeing these films out of the context of 68 - as hard as that is with such historically located texts - it's apparent that failure was part of the philosophical expectation." Godard's 60s continues at Film Forum through June 5.

Posted by dwhudson at May 22, 2008 2:32 PM