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Category: Fim Festivals

  • PEN/ Academy of American Poets / Burroughs in Sartasota

    The annual PEN World Voices Festival gears up in New York, with visiting literati arriving despite volcanic ash and house arrests from repressive governments that fear how their most creative minds will represent them. A Burmese blogger will receive top honor at the gala scheduled for this coming Tuesday, at the Museum of Natural History.…

  • On the Front at the Sarasota Film Festival

    Volcanic ash from Iceland may have paralyzed air traffic in Europe preventing honoree John Landis from reaching the west coast of Florida for his tribute, but at the Sarasota Film Festival, the show must go on. “What should we do?” asked the affable Mark Famiglio, festival president who playfully is listed as “Head Poobah,” half…

  • Oscar Watch: Best Picture/Director

    Members of the Motion Picture Academy assure me, financial success, even the overwhelming Avatar billions, is no criteria for Best Picture Oscar. We have seen the Avatar story in many incarnations in various genres, and The Hurt Locker has a fresh narrative strategy. Awesome as Avatar is, I don't see it as Best Picture over…

  • Paul Shrader Eats Dirt: Israel Film Festival

    If you missed Paul Shrader's last film Adam Resurrected, you can find it at the 24th Israel Film Festival, now playing at the SVA Theatre on 23 Street through next weekend. An examination of the period after The Holocaust based upon Yoram Kaniuk's 1971 novel, “Adam Resurrected” with its disturbing depiction of a comic who…

  • Alec Baldwin hosts It Might Get Loud

    On Friday night, East Hampton's Guild Hall was packed for the Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDoc's screening of a new documentary opening next week. “It Might Get Loud” limns the history of rock & roll from the perspective of three generations of electric guitar players, interweaving interviews and performances, archival and live, featuring Led Zeppelin's…