http://nonarrative.today.com Whatever you want to call it Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:16:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The "Upcoming Screenings" post that you find here every weekend, highlighting second-run and special engagement screenings, and film festivals, is moving over to Celluloid Notes. It just seems to make a little more sense over there. So, we've passed it along and it will appear every Saturday over there, as ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/04/18/upcoming-screenings-12/ I haven't been keeping up with the fests as they finish. I'm hoping to catch up and continue posting the winners here for you to look back upon as the year keeps moving onward. The LA Comedy Shorts Fest finished up in mid-March and here are your winners: Funny Or Die's Best-of-Fest ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/04/15/2009-festival-winners-la-comedy-shorts/ NEW YORK, NY: 04.12 - Fighting Spirit // Film Society of Lincoln Center: 5:15 04.13 - New York Double Feature: Do The Right Thing & Taxi Driver (Spike Lee & Martin Scorsese) // (Le) Poisson Rouge: 8:30pm 04.13 - Triomf (Michael Raeburn) // Film Society of Lincoln Center: 12:30pm 04.14 - Al Franken: ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/04/12/upcoming-screenings-11/ NEW YORK, NY: 04.05-04.10 - Gen Art Film Festival 04.06 - Big Night (Campbell Scott) // (Le) Poisson Rouge: 9pm 04.13 - New York Double Feature: Do The Right Thing & Taxi Driver (Spike Lee & Martin Scorsese) // (Le) Poisson Rouge: 8:30pm 04.16 - Luxury Car (Wang Chao) // Asia Society ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/04/05/upcoming-screenings-10/ NEW YORK, NY: 03.25-04.05 - New Directors/New Films Series @ Film Society of Lincoln Center 03.28 - HDV Canon Camera Training Session with cinematographer Patrick Reis // DCTV 87 Lafayette, 3rd Floor - FREE: 6pm 03.30 - Stanley Kubrick Double Feature: A Clockwork Orange & Dr. Strangelove // (Le) Poisson Rouge: 8pm 03.30 ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/29/upcoming-screenings-9/ NEW YORK, NY: 03.25-04.05 - New Directors/New Films Series @ Film Society of Lincoln Center 03.28 - HDV Canon Camera Training Session with cinematographer Patrick Reis // DCTV 87 Lafayette, 3rd Floor - FREE: 6pm 03.30 - Stanley Kubrick Double Feature: A Clockwork Orange & Dr. Strangelove // (Le) Poisson Rouge: ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/25/upcoming-screenings-a-couple-days-behind-its-usual-posting-time/ Ah, it's music video Monday. Last week we posted a few music videos featuring Emilie Simon. this week we're swinging to the other side of the spectrum with the new music video by Athens, GA natives Mastodon. The video is quite beautiful besides being utterly ridiculous (it's just a little ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/16/music-video-mondays-mastodon-divinations/ NEW YORK, NY: 03.15 - Tout Court: New French Shorts // Film Society of Lincoln Center: 3:15pm 03.15 - The Other One (director in attendance) // Film Society of Lincoln Center: 5:30pm 03.16 - Deeper into Movies: Michelangelo Antonioni Double Feature: L’Avventura and Blow-Up // (Le) Poisson Rouge - FREE: 8:30pm 03.16 - Sugar ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/14/upcoming-screenings-8/ Yesterday's post of Buster Keaton's "Cops" got me thinking about a lot of the early silent short films that have stuck with me from when I initially started studying film in school (which was a little while back now). But there are a few films of this era that have ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/11/those-awful-hats-by-dw-griffith/ Buster Keaton's short films rank among the best of the early comedic shorts in America. Recently remastered by Kino every short is really fantastic. There are a few that even retain their laugh-out-loud demeanor nearly a century after their creation. "Cops" is one of these. I wouldn't necessarily place this ... http://nonarrative.today.com/2009/03/10/cops-by-buster-keaton/