WERNER AND LUCY AND DESI AND HOMER

This weekend the Film Forum kicks off its Werner Herzog non-fiction film festival. Want a recommendation? To be honest, I don't know where to start...except to mention that Herzog is scheduled to make personal appearances at a few screenings of the first films, which get glowing reviews on IMDB. (The most intriguing appearance isn't at the Film Forum, actually; it's at Goethe House on Saturday afternoon, when he'll screen footage from his forthcoming Antarctica flick--but it's sold out!) Otherwise, he's to be at Little Dieter Needs to Fly/Wings of Hope at 7 pm on Saturday, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner/The Dark Glow of the Mountains/The White Diamond at 8:20 pm on Sunday, and "Werner's Picks" Sans Soleil/Les Maîtres Fous at 7 pm on Monday. Wanna go? Be aggressive--tickets seem to be going...going....

On Sunday at the Museum of the Moving Image there will be a free "street fair and celebration" called New York on Location. You'll be able to step inside 20 film trailers and trucks--and perhaps see what's behind the doors marked Lucy and Desi (as if you didn't know). Plus, you can get into the museum for free (and see Sam Fuller's newspaper movie Park Row) and get bargains at the gift shop, which is having a big sale.

And Sunday night is the 400th episode of The Simpsons. Amazing. (There will be two episodes that night, actually, as the 18th season of the series reaches its finale.)

BONUS I've been hearing and reading great things about the movie Once and the people who made it. Here's the trailer.



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