The 50th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Film Festival includes a major retrospective of Bruce Baillie, a Craig Baldwin lecture, and tons of films by George Kuchar, Jodie Mack and more.

Aug. 27: Open up and step inside this ’80s time capsule of short films by Larry Hankin, Greg Mottola, Gus Van Sant, Tom Schiller and more.

Here are more reviews of short films from the 3rd Austin Underground Film Festival, including ones by Andrew Perkowski and Don Hertzfeldt.

Naked Lens, Jack Sargeant’s take on how the Beat literary movement influenced underground film, happily veers off the well-trodden film history path.

Alison Murray fulfills her dream to see America by riding its rails and ends up de-glamorizing the wandering, aimless life of the hobo.

Prior to THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, Sofia is mostly known for her horrible acting in THE GODFATHER PART III. The chick got horrendously reamed for that one. I didn’t think she was so bad. Of course, I spent most of that movie drooling over her like Homer Simpson over a donut (or me over a donut for that matter). I don’t know what it is, but something about Sophia draws out all my primal urges. Well, not all of them, just the dirty ones.