New Yawk New Wave has been running at Film Forum since January 11 but still has a couple of precious days of life left. In a way, it’s one of the more ambitious curatorial projects to emerge from the theater’s august archivists. The series isn’t bound to a single era (it encompasses the period from 1953 to 1973), genre (everything from madcap comedy to downcast drama makes an appearance), or even style (there’s New Wave, cinema vérité, post-noir, and whatever you want to call Robert Downey Sr.’s still-photos-plus-voiceovers oddity, Chafed Elbows). Besides New York origins, the main thing this wildly …

Dennis Cooper writes about artist Ryan Trecartin in the pages of Artforum this month, situating the 24-year-old’s work somewhere alongside that of “Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and early John Waters.” From the piece: “…everything aesthetic about his videos — from the baroque screenplays that polish flippant teen slang into cascading soliloquies to the dueling fascinations with profound loneliness and extremely affected behavior to the swarming, jumbled, yet precisely composed shots that pack each frame to the rafters with visual stimuli — displays a near obliviousness to what’s going on in his field, whether it be the cliches of current video …

New York’s Anthology Film Archives has a fantastic program this weekend to celebrate its 35th anniversary. Three New York luminaries will present three nights of classic arthouse cinema. On Friday director Peter Bogdanovich will introduce a screening of Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game and Buster Keaton’s Neighbors. On Saturday, poet and rock star Patti Smith will introduce Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar preceded by Kenneth Anger’s Rabbit’s Moon. And on Sunday producer Christine Vachon will screen Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie’s Pull My Daisy as well as Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures. Thanks to Altoids, the screenings are free. Click …

A pioneer of avant-garde cinema in the 1950s and author of Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood’s Darkest and Best Kept Secrets, the notorious director Kenneth Anger returns to New York for a rare apearance this Thursday, January 20 to present four new films at the Museum of Modern Art as part of its ongoing Premieres series. Anger, who the Guardian has described as an “auteur, occultist, Hollywood scandal-spreader” and “famously irascible old man,” will introduce the premiere of his new work Mouse Heaven (2004), featuring the Mel Birnkrant colection of 1930s Disneyana, as well as The Man …

The Program for Media Artists (formerly the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowships) has announced the recipients of this year’s Fellowships. The Program for Media Artists awarded 20 Fellowships of $35,000 each. Two additional fellowships of $7,500 each acknowledge emerging artists working in film and video. Genevieve Anderson, Los Angeles, CA: Too Loud a Solitude, a feature film made with puppets about a waste compactor who rescues banned books from the trash and thus exposes the consequences of an oppressive government upon the human spirit. In addition to directing live-action and puppetry films, Anderson has also produced, directed, performed and designed for …