After the jurors at the Sundance Film Festival viewed "Moment of Impact," the documentary Ms. Loktev made about life since her father's car accident, they awarded the previously unknown filmmaker the prize for best direction of a documentary, beating out films from such well-known directors as Ken Burns, Penelope Spheeris and Barbara Kopple.
Festival viewing is also about finding new things you love – and I completely fell for the second element of His Music Burns, a short opera by the British composer George Benjamin with libretto by Martin Crimp, that takes the Pied Piper as its starting point.
Ladylike is slated for more festival viewing this summer, currently as an official selection for both the San Francisco Black Film Festival, being screened on June 13th and The Lower East Side Film Festival with a screening on June 15th.
His Whitney solo show, titled "Festival" (on view until September 26th), involves daily performances in which musicians come into the museum and interpret his scores.
This year, John Bennette, a curator, collector, and champion of artists, conceived the wonderful exhibition "Southern Memories: Part I" for the festival, on view in the restored Whiskey Bonding Bar, in Molena.
The festival's view of the past is dominated by the Weimar Republic, a 1920s burst of effervescence before the darkness of Nazism, and its view of the present is dominated by concerts, especially classical concerts.
A stunning setting is part of the appeal of Scotland's crime festival, with views over Stirling Castle and the Forth valley.
Ms. Pusateri goes to film forums and festivals to view other films, meet people and be ready to pitch her own work and offer a DVD on the spot.
A few months later, Klein had his first heart attack, at the Cannes Film Festival, after viewing, with horror, the Italian globe-trotting documentary of grotesqueries "Mondo Cane," for which Klein had incautiously reënacted a formal-dress performance, with live musicians, of painting with nude women.
Tomorrow, the New York Film Festival will present "Precarious Garden" on a program with three other of Mr. Gehr's recent short works, the longest of which runs just 18 minutes; the program is one of eight in the festival's "Views From the Avant-Garde".
