The Sundance Institute has announced the titles that will be in the non-competition categories for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Notables going to Park City in January include Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Nicole Holofcener, the Duplass bros, Michael Winterbottom (with two films), the Safdie bros, Gaspar Noé and Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut. Also announced are the films taking part in the newly created NEXT series, where films and their filmmakers will travel the country showing their films in theaters during the fest. The Sundance Film Festival will runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. List of titles below. See list of...

Tate the Biscuit, Group Show Curated by Helen Edwards and Infinity Bunce in conjunction with East End Arts Club 3rd-6th December 2009 Shoreditch Town Hall More info here.

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Mostly, I’m trying to point people in the direction of a lot of great stuff. By quoting from Hammett the hope is that people will go and read or re-read these books, or listen to some Cab Calloway records or Ronnie Dawson or whatever. For me, it’s a fascinating world, and I’m just trying to shine a...

Alone among our Gotham "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" nominees was the winner, You Won't Miss Me, because it was the sole film not to have received a Variety review. That was nicely remedied tied its win, as Ronnie Scheib caught up with the film and had this to say. Ry Russo-Young's sophomore outing, You Won't Miss Me, circles, tracks and finally zeroes in on Shelly (co-scripter Stella Schnabel, daughter of helmer Julian), a troubled 23-year-old Gothamite newly released from a mental institution. Quasi-experimental pic unfolds in nonchronological, unconnected moments, its heroine's day-to-day existence lacking the internal structure that might tie scenes together. But...

I started with FEMA maps. “This is how they cost out earthquake damage.” I laid one on the drafting table so Jules could see. “Sometimes people call them Ground Failure Maps or Hazard Maps. They show you where the land is unstable and prone to liquefaction.” He leaned over. I traced a river gorge...

_ El sello INDEX acaba de editar un nuevo DVD que compila algunos de los trabajos más destacados de la reciente producción experimental y documental del territorio austriaco. VISIONary - Contemporary Short Documentaries and Experimental Films from Austria es el título escogido para seleccionar un...

Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: Invasion of the modernity snatchers, Patrick West on Philip K Dick & the SF revival that mirrors our dark view of the world & Arcade Expressionism, Brock Davis’ expressionistic paintings of classic arcade games (via Drawn!) &...

“I entered into literature on my own, I live in it on my own and I shall depart from it on my own when the time comes” http://www.khazars.com/en/ Academician and author Milorad Pavić, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade University, passed away yesterday of complications following...