Fests and events, 5/29.

Cheryl Eddy previews Hong Kong Nocturne: The Films of Johnnie To, opening tomorrow: "Even the PFA admits, in their notes on the series, this is a 'small sampling' of To's output. But if I had to pick nine To films - culled, as the PFA's are, from To's output under his own Milkyway Image banner, created in 1997 - my sampling would likely resemble what's on tap through June." Also in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Johnny Ray Huston offers a taste of Other Cinema's Saturday evening of "New Experimental Works."

"In 2005, a reporter asked Augie Garrido for his thoughts upon winning his second NCAA championship at the University of Texas and his fifth career title," notes Ashley Moreno in the Austin Chronicle. "He responded, 'We're lookin' for a shortstop for next year.' No wonder he carries the title of baseball's winningest coach ever and - as some of the participants in Richard Linklater's newest film, Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, would argue - greatest coach ever." Linklater and Garrido will be on hand for a screening at the Paramount on Tuesday.

Also: Josh Rosenblatt previews the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series, "which - after months of bringing audiences films from the more dour end of the cinematic spectrum - will be presenting Making the World Laugh: Global Comedy this month, featuring slightly more lighthearted fare from around the world - from the salt mines of Germany to the streets of Thailand, the highways of Buenos Aires to the back lots of old Hollywood." Tuesday through July 29.

For Vue Weekly, David Berry previews the Dreamspeakers Film Festival, running June 4 through 7 in Edmonton.

Mike Everleth has the lineup for the Portland Underground Film Festival, running June 12 through 15.

"The 10th annual P'Town film festival runs from June 18 through 22, and the line-up has just been announced," notes the Boston Globe's Ty Burr.

Michael Guillén passes along word of the Impact Film Festival, to be staged twice, three days each, during the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Denver and Minneapolis.

Matt Prigge rounds up local goings on in the Philadelphia Weekly.

At the House Next Door, NP Thompson files another dispatch from Seattle.

Back in Boston: For Not Coming to a Theater Near You, Rumsey Taylor on Medicine for Melancholy.

Joanne Laurier wraps the WSWS's coverage of San Francisco.

Posted by dwhudson at May 29, 2008 11:37 AM