Fests and events, 11/3.

Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin runs at IFC Center from Wednesday through November 13 (and A Christmas Tale opens the next day). Tom Hall talks with Desplechin for indieWIRE.

This Sunday at Light Industry in Brooklyn: Pedro Costa introduces Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Too Early, Too Late. Via Kim West's review of Capricci's release of In Vanda's Room in France on DVD and its accompanying book (176 pages!) at Artforum.

"Filmmaker has been a big fan of Asia Argento - as an actress and a director - over the years," writes Scott Macaulay, "and on the occasion of her BAM retrospective, Sexy, Scary and Often Naked: Asia Argento, which [opened Saturday], I thought I would throw up some links to our coverage of Argento over the years." Through Sunday.

Hiroshi Teshigahara's Antonio Gaudí screens through tomorrow at Film Forum. Nicholas Rapold in the Voice: "The buildings narrate their architectural distinction well enough by themselves, from the pinnacles of La Sagrada Familia tapering to heaven like an ecclesiastical Emerald City, to the curvaceous honeycomb façade of the Casa Mila apartments."

"As a collaboration between visual artist Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry, the exhibition The All-seeing eye (the Hardcore-techno version) at London's BFI Southbank runs until November 23, 2008. Paola Noè asked Michel Gondry to tell Flash Art how he became one of the most popular directors in the contemporary art field." Earlier: "Gondrys, 10/27."

"The oldest (and frequently best) of the tidal wave of film festivals that annually swamps our town is back this week," writes the Oregonian's Shawn Levy. "The Northwest Film and Video Festival has been mounted by the Northwest Film Center for 35 years now, and it continues to blend the works of experienced filmmakers and newcomers from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and other points in the region." And he picks out a few highlights. Friday through November 15.

Dan Sallitt rounds up a handful of notable events taking place in NYC in November.

Adrian Martin files a dispatch from the Brisbane International Film Festival for the Fipreschi site and it is, as Girish notes, "much more than a film festival report; it smuggles in a sustained reflection on crying in cinema."

Todd Brown has the Toronto After Dark award-winners at Twitch.

Michael Guillén looks back on the Arab Film Festival.

Posted by dwhudson at November 3, 2008 2:11 PM