I’ve been playing catch-up this week, so there haven’t been any updates, but I did pick up the Frankenstein: Legacy Collection (a five-film DVD box set, of which I’m only interested in James Whales’ two classics, but at $20 for the whole collection, it’s impossible to pass up) as well as the Criterion Collection’s new Ozu films. A new print of Fellini’s La Dolce vita (1960) opens today in Los Angeles, and the Visual Communications FilmFest will be screening films by and about Asian Pacific Americans this weekend. On Monday, renowned choreographer and experimental filmmaker Yvonne Rainer will present Film About a Woman Who (1974) and After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid (2002) at the REDCAT.
Look for commentary on all of these events and more in the coming days…