Twice, she programmed Boyle's films as closing galas for the festival: Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and 127 Hours in 2010.
The critic and programmer Miriam Bale and I have, over coffee, enthused over May's work since we met a few years ago, and I've been grateful to her for programming May's films whenever the chance presents itself.
Ben Foster plays Lance Armstrong in The Program, Stephen Frears's film about his downfall; another potential best actor contender is Bryan Cranston, who plays blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.
"Fengming" (not on this program), Wang's film about a survivor of political persecution, is a quietly fierce and ingeniously constructed bearing of witness against ongoing repression.
He may interview cineastes with thoughtful, informed questions on his IFC program, "Henry's Film Corner," but every episode begins with a segment called "Teeing Off," in which Rollins gnashes his teeth, sputters and screams his way through diatribes on targets ranging from Paul Wolfowitz to Ashlee Simpson.
The show also has an extensive program of Fusco's films.
During the 1970s and early '80s, when animation in the United States was reduced to the occasional Disney feature and hours of cheap children's programming, Canada's film board emerged as the world center of creativity in the medium.
The program's playful opening film by the dancer Gabrielle Lamb played off the theme of creation, mixing studio shots with lines scribbled in notebooks.
Sunday's program of films and discussion, from 1 to 5 30 P.M., will focus on the experience of Indochinese refugees in the United States.
Wednesday's program includes films by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Marie Menken, Ken Jacobs, Standish Lawder, George Kuchar, Andy Warhol and the team of Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley; the Thursday collection includes work by Larry Gottheim, Saul Levine, Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand, Jane Conger Belson Shimane, Storm De Hirsch, Pat O'Neill and Stan Brakhage.
This year's program includes films set in Argentina under the military dictatorship of the 1970s ("The Prize"), during the red shirt demonstrations in Bangkok last year ("The Terrorists") and on Wall Street in the throes of the latest financial crisis ("Margin Call").
