Anytime a festival schedule is announced, it can be an overwhelming experience plowing through the list of films.When I’m traveling, we try to find out what is playing as far in advance as possible to start researching the titles and to confer with my colleagues about what they’ve heard.Recommendations are gold, especially when films may have played other festivals. With the Minneapolis/St. Paul…

Global Lens 2007 opened last night at the Walker Art Center. While it might have been cold and snowy outside, the Walker Cinema offered refuge with journeys to China and Algeria. From April 11–22 Walker hosts nine feature films from nine countries and a shorts program offering the same variety. Sponsored by the Global Film Initiative, Global Lens serves as a venue to emerging filmmaker and films…

I just read the sad news over at Twitch. Bob Clark, director of the cult classics Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and Black Christmas, as well as one of my all-time fovorites, A Christmas Story, was killed, along with his 22 year-old son, in a car accident with a drunk driver. Rest in Peace.

We are extremely excited to announce that our next Regis Dialogue and Retrospective program is with the innovative and imaginative Michel Gondry! The retrospective will begin on May 11 and run through May 19th. A free program of Gondry’s short films will run in the Lecture Room for the entire month of May, starting at Noon and running every 30 minutes during gallery hours. The dialogue will be on…

R.I.P. Freddie Francis – Mr. Francis was a cinematographer responsible for some of the most beautiful work in Cinema. A viewing of The Elephant Man, Cape Fear (1991), or his last film, The Straight Story would make for a fitting tribute. Reported by Reverse Shot. Niki Caro (Her first two films, Whale Rider and North Country were both presented at the Walker.) is now slated to direct The Boy Who Fell Out of…

Former Walker Artist in Residence Spencer Nakasako was honored at the The 25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival with a program that had him onstage in conversation with filmmaker Justin Lin. We’ve been working with him here at the Walker for many years, and we’re always happy to see Spencer get some recognition for his work. Congratulations. Also to mark the occasion, SF360…

Our Daily Bread, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s incredible poetic documentary about the largely unseen world of food production will play at the Walker Cinema this weekend. “ The film’s formal elegance, moral underpinning, and intellectually stimulating point of view also make it essential. Takes us inside worlds of wonder and terror.”–

Several of us here in Film/Video are fans of good design, especially when it pops on on film posters and DVD covers. If you are, too, I highly recommend checking out this post at On Five on the design process behind the covers for the Criterion Collection release of Jules Dassin’s Night and the City. David Bordwell at the Hong Kong Film Festival. His first report is upon his blog, and more are…

Some hardy individuals helped themselves to a complementary glass of champagne for making it to the finish line at 3:20am this past Monday morning in Berlin. What was this extreme sport of endurance? It was the world premiere of the restored version of Fassbinder’s infamous TV mini-series Berlin Alexanderplatz at the 57th Berlinale. I think it is quite possible that the Walker’s own assistant…