Fest Bits | Ghent, Milano, and Elvis
The Ghent International Film Festival will honor Harold Lloyd with a career tribute including the screenings of newly restored comedies "Safety Last!", "The Freshman," "Speedy," and "Welcome Danger." However, Harold Lloyd himself, who passed away in 1971, was not newly restored. His estate will also display scripts, costumes, sheet music and other items used in his films.
- One section at the upcoming Milano Film Festival will be dedicated to films highlighting aspects of modern American living. From their presser: "These films intend to explore and better comprehend the American society: family and personal anguish and deeply conflicting feelings so well-implanted in the US public imagination that they cause the rest of the world to feel extreme emotions of either love or hatred towards this society." The section's called Godless America. Bring a hanky.
- With that in mind, Memphis' Elvis Film Festival is set to rain down hunks of burning love (or hatred) towards this society on August 12. The program includes such personally anguishing and deeply conflicting films like "G.I. Blues," "Blue Hawaii," and "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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