in the grain

Rounding up a few recent pieces here and there: My report of the San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads festival is up at SFAQ, as is a brief preview of a few of the worthwhile films playing at the San Francisco International Film Festival. My review of a recently published anthology of legendary avant-garde filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos’s writings was posted on Fandor’s Keyframe blog at the beginning of the month. My review of J.P. Sniadecki’s latest, The Iron Ministry, will be in the most current issue of The Brooklyn Rail for at least a few more days yet. Finally, I’ve yet to lay eyes on the latest issue of the Canyon Cinemazine, but I should have a brief text and images in there about filmmaker Warren Sonbert’s lifelong passion for music