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Fests and events, 2/16.
By David Hudson on 02/16/2009
The Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival: Tomorrow through March 1.
Michael Guillen is posting thoughts as he watches films in the "Josef von Sternberg: Eros and Abstraction" series running at Pacific Film Archive through Sunday.
SFMOMA's 12-film Chantal Akerman series runs through the end of the month; Glen Helfand has an overview at SF360.
Vince Keenan's coverage of Noir City Northwest is off and running. The Seattle event's on through Thursday.
Starting this weekend, the IFC Center will be screening seven "Cronenberg Classics" on Friday and Saturday at midnight. "The five films that fall between 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' in IFC's midnight series - 'Spider' (2002), 'The Fly' (1986), 'eXistenZ' (1999), 'The Dead Zone' (1983) and 'Videodrome' (1983) - show Mr Cronenberg at or near his best, as a creator of ingenious, mind-bending, sometimes mordantly funny horror," writes Terrence Rafferty in his mood-setter for the New York Times.
Paul Holdengräber will be talking with Werner Herzog at UCLA on Friday; Susan King gets a few words with him first for the Los Angeles Times.
The Film Panel Notetaker "recently sat down with filmmaker Hugo Perez to discuss his documentary feature film debut, 'Neither Memory Nor Magic,' in preparation for its New York premiere during the 2009 MoMA Documentary Fortnight on Feb 22."
"Anthology Film Archives' recent 'Imitations of Life: Stahl vs Sirk' series demonstrates that, though John M Stahl and Douglas Sirk both labored in the fields of the Universal melodrama, they don't have much in common from a stylistic point of view." Dan Sallitt in the Auteurs' Notebook.
Tags: Chantal Akerman, David Cronenberg, Douglas Sirk, Festivals, Hugo Perez, John M Stahl, Josef von Sternberg, Werner Herzog- Permalink
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