Fests and events, 8/16.

"When Tilda Swinton announced plans for a film festival in her home town of Nairn in north-east Scotland, she said she wanted it to be the antithesis of the glitz and glamour of Cannes," reports Jonathan Brown for the Independent. "Swinton seemed relieved that the idea had taken root yesterday with all 140 tickets having sold out for the opening film, Peter Ibbetson, the 1935 classic starring Gary Cooper and Ida Lupino." The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams is open another full week.

SXSW stays busy all year round. They've just issued their Call for Entries (deadline's December 12) and announced the winners of SXSWclick!, which, of course, you can watch now.

"Freud is an unlikely touchstone for a feminist film - unless the doctor appears in costume as a punching bag - but Susan Mogul takes such incongruities in stride," writes Annie Buckley for Artforum. "The video artist and filmmaker's new feature-length work, Driving Men, teeters charmingly between art-house cinema and Hollywood flick, all the while provoking questions about the slippery nature of identity, memory, and subjectivity. Freud's ghost seems to haunt the film from behind the wheel of a shiny new convertible." Mogul will be presenting her film tomorrow evening at the Los Angeles Filmforum.

The Melbourne International Film Festival has wrapped and announced its award-winners. Senses of Cinema posted reports from July 29 through August 10 and has collected a dossier on "Ozploitation."

Posted by dwhudson at August 16, 2008 9:44 AM