Fests and events, 12/4.

Let's start with some online viewing tips. Harry Tuttle has the trailer and live webscast schedule for Où va le cinéma? (Where is cinema heading to?), an event happening in Paris through Sunday. Already at the site are quick interviews with M Night Shyamalan, Carice Van Houten, Lisandro Alonso, Bong Joon-ho, Yu Lik-Wai, George A Romero, Miguel Gomes, Serge Bozon, Kiju Yoshida, David Strathairn and Albert Serra.

The Whistler Film Festival opens today and runs through Sunday. Jason Whyte has an overview at Hollywood Bitchslap.

"Story of a 3-Day Pass is [Melvin] Van Peebles's most stylistically assured and emotionally satisfying film," writes Brandon Harris at Hammer to Nail. Melvin Van Peebles: A Salute from MoMA and IFP runs through Saturday.

Brett Michel previews Nagisa Oshima and the Struggle for a Radical Cinema, running at the Harvard Film Archive from Sunday through December 22, for the Boston Phoenix.

"[W]hat history has done with the film Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains seems a little weird." Cindy Widner preps Austin Chronicle readers for Monday night's screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown.

Posted by dwhudson at December 4, 2008 2:53 PM