A Steady Diet of Film

The International Film Festival is coming! The International Film

I'm already daydreaming and doodling on my program for the San Francisco International Film Festival 2005. This year's special events are good and special (Brad Bird delivers the State of Cinema address, Todd Solondz discusses screenwriting and getting unlikeable films produced, Adam Curtis gets an award), though nothing comes close to beating last year's An
Evening with Milos Forman, but really... what could? Hair on the big screen plus chatting it up with Milos Forman and Treat Williams, I get a little misty just thinking about it.

And then there's the films! My to do list includes: Francois Ozon's 5x2, Costa-Gavras' The
Ax, Cinévardaphoto, Miranda July's Me
and You and Everyone We Know, Alison Murray's Mouth
to Mouth, Marilyn Agrelo 's Mad Hot Ballroom, Adam Curtis's Power of Nightmares, Raymond Depardon 's Profiles of Farmers, and Erin McEnery's Search for the Captain.

I'm told I should be interested in Lúcia Murat's Almost Brothers, Sundance favorite Murderball, and the Alloy Orchestra performing a new score to Hitchcock's Blackmail.

I have a passing interest in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (isn't this already in a theatrical release?), Wernor Herzog's White
Diamond and Chronicas because I saw John Leguizamo plugging it on the Daily Show and he seemed very sweet and earnest about it.

I'll be staying far away from the Clare Denis's The Intruder and Takashi Miike's Izo, because I am sqeamish!

And finally, I am just glad November got a distributor, though I think I will wait until it gets a regular theatrical release.

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posted by Erin @ Thursday, April 07, 2005