From September 13-October 6, BAM Rose Cinemas, presents "Double Dutch: The Films of Jos de Putter & Peter Delpeut." Jos de Putter is an impressive documentarian who composes cinematic meditations on loss and Peter Delpeut is an obsessive film enthusiast who often crafts his films from found footage and old photographs. Jos De Putter will be present for a Q&A after the 7 p.m. screening of "It's Been a Lovely Day" on Sept. 20 and Peter Delpeut will be present for a Q&A after the 7 p.m. screening of "Go West, Young Man!" on Sept. 27.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Film Program and the Harvard Film Archive will present a retrospective of the films of Louis Malle from September 1-October 4. This chance to see the great French director’s best-loved works on the big screen features new prints of seven well-known classics, which run the gamut from romance and intrigue ("Elevator to the Gallows," "The Lovers") to youthful escapades ("Zazie in the Metro," "Murmur in the Heart") to the Nazi occupation ("Lacombe," "Lucien" and "Au revoir les enfants," both co-presented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival).

Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver, Canada will kick off its fall season with "Fellini," a 23-film retrospective on the Italian director. The retrospective will run from September 1-26, 2005. Screenings will include Fellini's early comedies ("Variety Lights," "The White Shiek"), his theological allegories ("Il Bidone," "La Strada"), his autobiographical films ("I Vitelloni," "Amacord"), his exercises in extravagence ("Roma," "Satyricon") and of course his existential/spiritual treatises in "La Dolce Vita" and "8 1/2."

In honor of Brazilian Independence Day, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will present preview screenings of "Favela Rising," a new documentary about Rio de Janeiro's Afro Reggae movement, as the centerpiece of an evening devoted to film, music and food. The celebration on Friday, September 2, 2005, begins at 6:00 p.m. with Brazilian food and drinks available for purchase in the Museum's courtyard. "Favela Rising" will be shown at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Live music will be provided by musicians from Astoria's Brazilian community during the evening.

Thought you might like the fat salary that comes with being a drug rep? Think again. The MFA Film Program will present a four-show engagement of Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau’s debut feature film, the pharmaceutical satire Side Effects, September 30 through October 6 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The film is based on Slattery-Moschkau own experiences as a drug rep for ten years. Slattery-Moschkau will be present for a Q&A at the September 30 screening.

Winding up the first season of its "Short Attention Span Cinema" program, IFC Center presents "An Evening with Jeff Scher" on Thursday, August 25 at 7:30 pm. Mr. Scher will appear in person to present a selection of his acclaimed animated work. The program is followed by a reception at the Waverly at IFC Center, the café located next to the theater. Tickets for the screening and reception are $10.75 general admission/$7 seniors. For more information, visit the IFC Center's website.

The MFA Film Program will present a 4-show engagement of Nina Davenport’s road trip film "Parallel Lines," from September 11-17 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The 98 minute film chronicles Davenport’s journey in the fall of 2001 from California back home to New York City, where her apartment once overlooked the World Trade Center.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens presents a new season of "Repertory Nights" starting August 27 with two weekends of double features by Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard, and continuing with major works by Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick and more. For the past five years the Museum has presented new, restored and imported 35mm prints of film classics that deserve to be shown on the big screen. "Repertory Nights" will run through November 6.

indieWIRE continues its monthly series with Apple Store - SoHo that presents indie film professionals discussing various aspects of the filmmaking process. On Friday, August 26th we present Filmmaker Maya Churi as she discusses her interactive web narrative "Forest Grove," which screened at the 2005 Sundance Online Film Festival.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens will present a special screening of "The Robin Harris Story: We Don't Die, We Multiply," a new documentary by Topper Carew on Friday, August 19 at 7:30 p.m. Robin Harris, the legendary emcee at the Comedy Act Theater in Los Angeles who had notable supporting roles in "Do the Right Thing" and "House Party," was also a great standup comic. Carew's film features rare performance footage and interviews with Harris' colleagues including Martin Lawrence, Robert Townsend, Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Carew.

The MFA Film Program and the Goethe Institut-Boston are pleased to present a nine-film retrospective of the Films of Daniel Brühl from September 15- October 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Known to American audiences for his memorable roles in "Good Bye, Lenin!" and, more recently, "Ladies in Lavender," the 27-year-old German actor has also starred in some of Germany’s most interesting and edgy works not yet widely screened in the U.S.

The New York Korean Film Festival will kick off at the Lighthouse Theater (111 East 59th St.) from September 2-6, and will then move to BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn from September 7-11. Highlights include Chu Chang-Min’s comedy “Mapado: All About the Hemp and Widows,” Lee Jae-Han’s romance “A Moment to Remember,” and Kim In-Shik’s thriller “Hypnotized.” For the complete schedule, please visit the Korean Film Festival web site.

From Sept. 10 through Nov. 13, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens celebrates Billy Wilder's genius as a writer-director with "Some Like It Wilder: The Complete Billy Wilder." Born in Austria in 1906, Wilder worked as a journalist in Vienna and Berlin before becoming a screenwriter and emigrating to the U.S. in 1934. The retrospective will feature all 26 of the films Wilder directed, including classics as "Some Like It Hot," "Sunset Boulevard," "Double Indemnity," "The Seven Year Itch" and "The Apartment" as well as underappreciated gems like "Kiss Me, Stupid," "Avanti!" and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes."

Peter Falk and Paul Reiser will participate in a Q&A following a preview screening of their new comedy, The Thing About My Folks on August 31 at 7:30 p.m. Presented by the Museum of the Moving Image, the event will take place at Loews Lincoln Square Theater in Manhattan. Written by Reiser ("Mad About You," "Diner") and featuring Falk ("Columbo," "The In-Laws," "Wings of Desire"), the film is about a father and son who grow closer while coping with a family crisis. "The Thing About My Folks" is a Picturehouse release, and will open on Sept. 16, 2005.

From Sept. 7-21, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in New York will present the sixth edition of "Latinbeat." This year's program will feature 21 films from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Directors Pedro González Rubio and Carlos Armella (Mexico), Pablo José Meza (Argentina), Mercedes Moncada-Rodríguez (Nicaragua), Elia K. Schneider (Venezuela) and Julia Solomonoff (Argentina) will be present at screenings of their films. This year’s spotlight will focus on the films of legendary actor Federico Luppi.

On August 24 and 25, BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn presents "Born in Brooklyn: Rosie Perez," a two-day tribute to actor Rosie Perez. An Academy Award nominated actress and Emmy nominated choreographer, Perez's film credits include Jim Jarmusch's "Night On Earth," Ron Shelton's "White Men Can't Jump" and Peter Weir's "Fearless," among others. A screening of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" on August 24 at 7:30 p.m. will be followed by a Q&A with Perez.

The American Cinematheque presents “Farewell: A Tribute to Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko” at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (August 12 - 27) and at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (September 15). For an all-too-brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, directors Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov were the golden couple of Soviet-era cinema. Like many love stories, theirs had a tragic ending: Shepitko was killed in 1979 in a car accident while scouting locations for her next film, “Farewell to Matyora,” a project her husband Klimov would eventually finish. Klimov would go on to direct only one more feature, the anti-war film, “Come and See” (1985), before his death in 2003. The series will include screenings of "Heat," "The Ascent" as well as "Come and See"-- among others.

Always dreamed of producing, directing and starring in your own film? Well, now’s your chance. At the Cinemasports Film Festival, a community based, one-day event, filmmakers can get together and make their own 3-minute film. The catch is, you only have nine hours to write, film, edit and complete it before it’s shown in front of an audience. The next two Cinemasport events will be held simultaneously in San Jose and New York City on Saturday August 27th, 2005. For more information, check out the Cinemasports web site.

The 20th annual Sundance Institute Independent Producers Conference will be held August 4-7, 2005 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah. The Conference offers producers, writers, and directors the opportunity to meet professional colleagues in the informal setting of Sundance Village for an intensive weekend dedicated to exploring issues unique to the business of independent filmmaking. The Conference features panels focusing on topics such as:  financing, creative issues, documentaries, production, distribution, and marketing. The Conference is organized by Geoffrey Gilmore, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. For more information, visit the Sundance Insititute's website.

From August 8-30, BAM Rose Cinemas, presents "Lonely Heart: Philippe Garrel." Philippe Garrel is one of the greatest French filmmakers of the past 40 years and also the most precocious; his first feature, "Marie pour mémoire," was released when he was just 20 years old. A child of the May '68 revolts, Garrel has created a unique filmography, both experimental and narrative, silent and with sound.

From August 5-21 BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn will present "Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting: The Shaw Brothers," a series of films from the legendary Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong. With roots dating as far back as the silent era, the studio was formed by a trio of brothers and lead by the charismatic Run Run Shaw, revolutionizing the way movies were made in China and around the world. Known mainly for their martial arts epics, the Shaws also produced dramas, comedies and musicals. The studio established the careers of legendary actors such as Gordon Liu and Betty Loh Ti, and enlisted top-notch directors like King Hu and Li Han Hsiang.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will present Bharatbala's romantic comedy "Hari Om" and Mani Ratnam's genre-twisting family saga "A Peck on the Cheek" from August 19-28 as part of their ongoing "Cinema India" series. Ghazal singer Kiran Alhuwalia will also perform on Wednesday, August 17 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the museum's "Concerts in the Courtyard" series.

BAM Rose Cinemas presents "The Best of NewFest 2005" from August 26-28 in Brooklyn. Each June, NewFest presents 250 films and videos showcasing the most recent and best work by, about, or of interest to the LGBT community. Each summer the festival comes to Brooklyn with a selection that includes award winners and films that sold out during the June festival.

UCLA's Film and Television Archive is kicking off a monthlong series of "recently restored rarities" tonight with a screening of Jean Renoir's 1926 "Nana" with live musical accompaniment. Other films featured are Frtiz Lang's 1928 silent thriller "Spies," John Ford's 1917 silent Western "Bucking Broadway" and Han Hsiang Li's 1963 period piece, "The Love Eterne." The series continues through August 26.

For a full schedule of events go to UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The Center for Jewish History in New York City will present a special screening of Colin Still’s “No More to Say and Nothing to Weep,” on Monday, August 1 at 7 p.m. The documentary is about the life and work of American poet Allen Ginsberg. Bob Rosenthal, poet and Ginsberg’s literary executor, will open the evening with a brief reading of Ginsberg’s poetry, and will lead a post-screening discussion.

indieWIRE continues its monthly series with Apple Store - SoHo that presents indie film professionals discussing various aspects of the filmmaking process. This Friday we present "Murderball" Editor Geoffrey Richman.

WHEN: Friday, July 22th, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Apple Store - Soho, 103 Prince Street, NYC

Geoffrey Richman, Editor of the award-winning documentary "Murderball," will discuss the post-production process for the film and how he edited the project using Apple's Final Cut Pro software.

To learn more about Geoffrey Richman's work on "Murderball" please visit here.

The NW Film Center in Portland, OR presents the films of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani now through August 21. The Italian writing and directing team of brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani have been making films since the early 1960s. However, it wasn't until 1977 when their film "Padre Padrone" won both the Palme D'Or and the International Critics Prize at Cannes, that they recevied widespread international attention. The Tavianis have retained a prominent place in the international spotlight ever since.

The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY presents a retrospective of Stanley Kubrick’s films from July 20 through August 17. Twelve of Kubrick's films will be screened including "Dr. Strangelove," "Killer’s Kiss," "Paths of Glory," "The Killing," "Lolita," "Spartacus, 2001: A Space Odyssey," "A Clockwork Orange," "Barry Lyndon," "Eyes Wide Shut," "The Shining" and "Full Metal Jacket."

At a lunch in their honor at the French Consulate in Los Angeles, "Cote d'Azur" directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau celebrate the day after their film opened Outfest. Pictured (left to right) are: Strand Releasing's Jon Gerrans, filmmaker Jacques Martineau, Strand's Marcus Hu, filmmaker Olivier Ducastel, Outfest exec. director Stephen Gutwillig, and Outfest head of programming Kirsten Schaffer.
[photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE]

NewFest, the New York Lesbian and Gay film festival continues their year-round East Village LGBT programming series in partnership with The Pioneer Theater with "Women in Love" by Karen Everett. Everett turns the camera on her love life, her friends, and her community in San Francisco, examining past relationships and questions of polyamory with a screening at the Pioneer on Wednesday, July 13. For more information, visit the NewFest website.

Michael Moore's non-partisan Traverse City Film Festival has some competition. The Traverse Bay Freedom Film Festival will screen in Michigan on the same dates as Moore's fest with right wing flicks such as "In the Face of Evil," a tribute to Ronald Reagan; "Confronting Iraq," a defense of the war in Iraq sponsored by the conservative group Accuracy in Media; and "Michael Moore Hates America." "People are fed up and tired with the extreme left-wing radical fringe — America haters, family haters, Christian haters," said Genie Aldrich, founder of the Traverse Bay Freedom Film Festival." Associated Press reports.

The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) will host a summer series in July. The program, taking place July 7-21 will encourage DC youth to make their own films, showcase young, local filmmakers and provide a range of activities that will generate an audience base for independent film in the surrounding DC area. Opening night will be at the AFI Silver and the rest of the engagement will be
at the Cinema Arts Theatre in Fairfax VA. For more information, visit the festival's website.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater will present, "What a Swell Party This Is! A Salute to Bing Crosby" July 20 - 26. For a program listing, visit the Film Society's website.

On Thursday, June 30 at 7 p.m., The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria Queens will present a special double-feature screening of James Toback's maverick American independent feature "Fingers" (1978) and Jacques Audiard's new adaptation of the film, "The Beat that My Heart Skipped." Toback will participate in a Q&A following the 7 p.m. screening of "Fingers."

The Museum of the Moving Image presents a retrospective of director Raoul Walsh's films from July 9 through August 21. Walsh (1887-1980) made more than 100 films during his legendary career including such classics as "The Thief of Bagdad," "White Heat" and "The Roaring Twenties." The series will feature screenings of twenty-three films, including "Regeneration" (1915), the first feature-length gangster film, filmed on the Lower East Side; "The Big Trail" (1930), the widescreen western that gave John Wayne his first starring role; and series opener "The Man I Love" (1946), the dark romantic drama that inspired Martin Scorsese’s "New York, New York."

At the Apple Store tonight as part of the indieWIRE Presents monthly discussion series, filmmaker Hal Hartley talked about his new film and why he is leaving New York and relocating to Berlin...
[Photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE]

After months of festival acclaim, team "Murderball", including ThinkFilm, MTV, the filmmakers and the subjects of the upcoming doc release gathered in New York Wednesday night for the film's official premiere and party...
[Photo and text by Eugene Hernandez © indieWIRE]

At HBO's New York HQ Wednesday night, the subject of Kirby Dick's Oscar-nominated doc "Twist of Faith", Tony Comes (pictured with his wife), talks with guests after a special screening of the film...
[Photo and text by Eugene Hernandez © indieWIRE]

The Hammer Museum presents four free evening programs of short films from the Sundance Film Festival in a series selected and presented in collaboration with the Sundance Institute. Every Friday in July beginning July 8, Sundance Summer Shorts at the Hammer will be presented in the Museum’s outdoor courtyard on Friday nights from July 8-29 at 8pm. For more information, visit the museum's website.

indieWIRE continues its new monthly series with Apple Store - Soho that presents indie film professionals discussing various aspects of the filmmaking process. This Friday June 24th, we present independent filmmaker Hal Hartley.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Premiere Brazil!, its third annual exhibition of contemporary Brazilian cinema, July 1-10, 2005, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. This nine-film exhibition of fiction and nonfiction work from both emerging and established Brazilian directors includes the three principal award winners from the 2004 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. For more information and a schedule, visit the MoMA website.

The Museum of Modern Art presents three of Edward Yang’s major works to mark the publication of a new monograph on the filmmaker. The exhibition Edward Yang, which is presented June 24-30, 2005, in the Museum’s Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, includes his acclaimed film Yi Yi (A One and a Two…, 2000) as well as Gulingjie shaonian sharen shijian (A Brighter Summer Day, 1991) and the rarely screened Kongbu fenzi (The Terrorizer, 1986). For more information, visit the museum's website.

He’s a Hollywood A-lister with enough indie-cred to make any actor insanely jealous. He’s decidedly un-married to Vanessa Paradis, one of France’s hottest actresses, and he’s got a face that most men and women fantasize about. What more can a man like Johnny Depp ask for? How about an eight-film retrospective spanning his 20-year career. The series called In Deppth, from July 8 through 31 at BAM Rose Cinemas, will include such Depp classics as“Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Cry Baby” and “Edward Scissor Hands.” For a full list of screenings visit BAMcinematek.

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens celebrates the 50th anniversary of Gumby, the beloved clay character created by Art Clokey in 1955, with a new exhibition opening June 18 and running through January 15. On opening day, June 18, Gumby himself will greet fans in person from noon through 5 p.m. That day, the Museum will also screen "Gumby Through The Years" at 2 p.m., followed by "Gumby: The Movie" at 4:30 p.m.