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Fests and events, 1/5.
By David Hudson on 01/05/2009
The focus country for this year's Asian Hot Shots Berlin, running January 13 through 18, will be Indonesia.
"The power of the 'prestige' film and the art of the deal are a lasting legacy of Lon Chaney's monumental Universal Pictures blockbuster, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,'" writes David Jeffers at the Siffblog. Tonight at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. Also: A look back at the night of the film's Seattle premiere in 1923.
"Some films are the result of a director gone mad and such is the case with 'Playtime,'" writes Chris Gisonny at the House Next Door. "Yet this bankruptcy-inducing disaster is one of the most unique viewing experiences in the history of cinema." A 70mm print screens tonight at the Walter Reade Theater in New York. Related: "What does 70mm look like?" at the filmlinc blog.
Michael Guillen reviews a round of shorts by Chantal Akerman recently screened as part of the retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
IndieWIRE launches a series of interviews with filmmakers whose work will be screening at Sundance, now just ten days away: Doug Pray ("Art & Copy"), Frazer Bradshaw ("Everything Strange and New"), Peter Bratt ("La Mission") and Cherien Dabis ("Amreeka").
"Anybody who goes on the Peckinpah trail will come back with the same confused story," writes Geoffrey Macnab in the Independent. "Sam Peckinpah, who died 25 years ago (in December 1984) and whose career is celebrated with a season at BFI Southbank this month, was a monster."
Online browsing tip. Ray Pride's photos in Filmmaker's "Festival Ambassador" section.
Online resource. Dina Iordanova points to a film festival-related bibliography put together by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist.
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