December 18, 2008

Fests and events, 12/18.

Austin Underground Film Festival For the Austin Chronicle, Josh Rosenblatt talks with Austin Underground Film Festival founder Andy Gately about some of the films screening tomorrow.

Wavelength "has been laughed out of the cinema and lauded as a minimalist masterpiece, yet [Michael] Snow seems relatively unfazed," writes Jessica Lack in the Guardian. "In fact he decided to title his new exhibition Yes Snow Show for that very reason. 'The curator asked me if I could suggest a title for the exhibition and it became Yes Snow Show,' he says. 'I like it because it contains the possible extreme reactions, positive and negative, to my work. Perhaps it'll encourage discussion.'" Through February 1 at the BFI Southbank Gallery.

Online listening tip. Laugh and Live: The Films of Douglas Fairbanks runs at MoMA through January 12. Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta, co-authors of the biography Douglas Fairbanks, are guests on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Online viewing tip. In anticipation of Scorsese Classics, running at the Walter Reade in New York from December 26 through 31, the filmlinc blog's Amanda McCormick posts The Big Shave.



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Posted by dwhudson at December 18, 2008 1:40 PM