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Weekend Movie Forecast: Traitor, Sukiyaki Western Django
Gothamist — ... and leisurely." There's also Year of the Fish, an animated Cinderella story about an abused Chinese immigrant and her magical fish. The preview looked too precious by half, and Vadim Rizov at the Village Voice confirms our suspicion: "Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make." Elsewhere in the Voice you'll find a good primer for the four day John Carpenter series at BAM that starts Monday. And your weekend midnight movies are Tron at the ...

Links for the Day (August 31st, 2008)
The House Next Door — 1. GreenCine gathers first reactions to Abbas Kiarostami's latest, Shirin. ["From Variety: Though his name continues to pop up regularly as writer or story man on a good chunk of Iranian cinema, Abbas Kiarostami himself has not filmed anything even vaguely commercial since 2002's "Ten." The maestro has disappeared into making more abstract, experimental installations, theater pieces and films ("Five"). His latest, "Shirin," wherein 112 Iranian actresses and Juliette Binoche are shot watching a 12th-century Persian play, with the play's ...

Pencil This In
Gothamist — PERFORMANCE: That floating sculpture armada that's been drifting down the Hudson River from Troy reaches northern Manhattan tonight, where the seven eclectic, hand-made vessels will dock at Riverside Park Pier I. Called "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea," the project is the brainchild of street artist/gallery darling Swoon and a loose collective of DIYers who've spent the last two summers doing the same thing on the Mississippi. This year their voyage is much shorter and features a play (to be performed tonight) written by Lisa D'Amour, who enthralled us with her ...

Fests and events, 9/3.
GreenCine Daily — Lebowski Fest happens in San Francisco on Friday and Saturday. Sean McCourt has a preview in the Bay Guardian. "Like his more critically celebrated simpatico contemporaries - Brian De Palma, Joe Dante and David Cronenberg - [John] Carpenter has kept alive the mid-century B-movie tradition of using impersonal work-for-hire projects to fulfill an auteur's vision," writes Benjamin Strong at Moving Image Source. "What's distinctive about Carpenter is how enthusiastically he embraces the hokiest conventions of the genres he works in. His films are ...