Fests and events, 6/6.

The Sydney Film Festival, running through June 22, features a series entitled From Kerr to Eternity. Dan Callahan: "Basically composed and uncomplicated, [Deborah] Kerr was at her best on screen when she was listening to other's troubles and trying to help them. When she turned her compassion inward on herself, it seemed to have an almost neurotic effect, as if all that on-screen forbearance left her own nerves shot to pieces." Via the House Next Door.

"If you've got the time, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has the movie," notes Susan King in the Los Angeles Times. "The museum will screen the seven-hour 1968 Oscar-winning Russian film, War and Peace, in two parts Friday and Saturday evenings this month."

"The Boston International Film Festival kicks off today at the AMC/Loews Boston Common, running through the 14th," notes Ty Burr. "The Globe's Ethan Gilsdorf breaks down some of the offerings."

Andy Horbal sorts through June's offerings in Pittsburgh; similarly, Matt Prigge for his town in the Philadelphia Weekly; see also the Philadelphia City Paper.

The David Lean centenary retrospective rolls on at London's BFI Southbank through the end of July. Film Weekly celebrates, Time Out gathers tributes from an illustrious roster, and: "Now when I make films, I think to myself: 'How would Lean have done this shot?'" Atonement director Joe Wright in the London Times.

And the entries on goings on in New York and San Francisco have been updated today.

Posted by dwhudson at June 6, 2008 9:20 AM