Watch them fight tyranny, eat popcorn

2004-09-24

Los Angeles, Tinsel City
One has to love a town where a hip neighborhood can have its very own film festival [flash alert].

On the other side of the Hollywood Hills, the blue whale building is the location of a festival of a different color. West Hollywood's first conservative film festival will screen "Michael Moore Hates America," a $200,000 documentary partially financed by Brian Cartmell, who sold, eNic, his domain registration company to Verisign.

Asian Americans and Canadians
At MIT, this weekend another first, the Silkscreen Film Festival. Right on the heels of the Toronto Film Festival is Vancouver.

A Global Fall Festival Season
In the Big Apple, the 42nd New York Film Festival will provide the U.S. launch of Pedro Almodóvar's film, "La Mala Educación ." The New York Film Festival has long been a cornerstone of international cinema exhibition.

NYFF is now followed on Long Island by a younger Hamptons festival. On the Korean peninsula there is Pusan; the emerald isle has Cork. It's the Spanish who have the 49th Festival of Festivals in Valladolid. Pass the popcorn!