Fests and events, 7/9.

Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell post a whopping wrap-up of Il Cinema Ritrovato, the festival of restored films in Bologna. Among the highlights are notes from a briefing on what's known so far regarding the recently discovered copy of the long version of Metropolis; Michael Powell's 1964 film of Béla Bartók's short opera Bluebeard's Castle; Lev Kuleshov; the year 1908; and pix of some the folks you read.

For the New York Times, Nathan Lee previews La Rivière Gentille, "one of three feature-length portraits by the filmmaker Brigitte Cornand that are screening at Anthology Film Archives and that afford, if not a whole day, at least an exceedingly long afternoon in the company of [Louise] Bourgeois." Michelle Orange (Voice) suspects the series may be "required viewing for superfans only." Earlier: "Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine."

"A new film festival, which Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton is founding in her hometown of Nairn, north-east Scotland, is to have no red carpets, no ranks of paparazzi and no designer evening dresses. Entry to the films will cost you £3 or a tray of home-baked cakes; and the audience will sit on beanbags." And Joel Coen's programming a double feature. Charlotte Higgins reports for the Guardian.

"Much can be learned about how French filmmakers saw themselves by how they saw Jean-Pierre Léaud," suggests Jason Anderson at Artforum. "In Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore - the 1973 masterpiece that launches Bad Company, a traveling retrospective that arrives at Toronto's Cinematheque Ontario on July 11 - Léaud is best described as an outright prick."

For the Voice, Nick Pinkerton previews the Asian American International Film Festival. Tomorrow through July 19.

As the Bicycle Film Festival wheels into Minneapolis, the City Pages' Bradley Campbell picks out a few highlights. Through Saturday.

Posted by dwhudson at July 9, 2008 3:06 PM