The press office at the Film Society of Lincoln Center is having problems. Yesterday, the screening of "The Go Master" proved that: 1) they got the time wrong again, the film was longer than 100 minutes as announced; 2) in none of the schedules (blue, pink, green) was it announced that there would be a press conference and that Tian Zhuangzhuang would be there. Now: no one can just drop in from China unannounced. So why wasn't this posted? Plus there were no press materials on the film when i got there. (Did they run out? It wasn't that crowded.) I would have liked to know who the cinematographer was....

Anyway, rushing to another screening, but tonight's a real memento mori marathon: Jonas Mekas is displaying items from the George Macuinas archives at the Maya Stendhal Gallery and Ken jacobs is showing "Two Wrenching Departures" at MoMA. It's claimed that "Two Wrenching Departures" is a world premiere, but i saw it years (could it be decades) ago.... was it at the Collective for Living Cinema? Or Anthology? Whatever....