The September 30th Daily Variety front-page article by Marc Graser trumpeted: “AUDS GET WIRED: Social networks driving pic choices.” The article begins:

“If marketing mavens want to reach younger moviegoers when promoting their films, they need to embrace social networks or risk being ignored.”

The Museum of Modern Art presents the New York premiere of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s (b. 1959, Finland) film Where Is Where? (2009), a haunting and layered consideration of how history affects our perception of reality.

Computer History Museum, California will screen a WHIZ KIDS Documentary Film sponsored by Intel, taking place on Thursday, September 24, 2009, at 5:00 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art presents the theatrical premiere of Bob Byington's slacker comedy Harmony and Me (2009), from September 18 through 24, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Director Byington will be present at the September 18 and 19 screenings to introduce the film and participate in a post-screening question and answer session.

The Museum of Modern Art launches An Auteurist History of Film, a two-year series of films drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s collection and as a basic introduction to the development of cinema as a predominant art form of the 20th century.

MoMA announces the fall line-up for its ongoing ContemporAsian series in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. MoMA showcases one contemporary Asian film per month with a weeklong engagement, allowing audiences the rare chance to enjoy films not in wide distribution and to experience the diversity and richness of Asian cinema in its many forms.

HIV / AIDS is a big worry in the adult film industry, as one might expect. Thursday, two former adult film actresses, Jan Meza (left in picture) and Shelley Lubben, spoke at a press conference Thursday in Los Angeles with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an AIDS advocacy group, and The Pink Cross, a group that helps people exit the adult film industry, calling for condom use in all adult films.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Filmmaker in Focus: Roy Andersson, a retrospective of the full oeuvre of Roy Andersson (Swedish, b. 1943), covering four decades of work, from his school projects and short films to his television commercials and major feature films.

Best of Iron Mule Brings Short Comedy Film to Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art Continuing a decade-long tradition of screening films that won’t be found at a multiplex, MASS MoCA brings the Best of Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival to the Berkshires on Thursday, August 6, 2009, at 8:30 PM.

Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board present Summer Music & Movies: Newman Rocks popular outdoor series celebrates another year with films featuring the legendary Paul Newman and a diverse lineup of musical guests.

MoMA presents a six-film showcase of recent titles from the independent distribution company Strand Releasing in the exhibition Carte Blanche: Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans, screening from July 1 through 6, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.

MoMA presents the seventh annual Premiere Brazil film exhibition, which introduces New York audiences to accomplished, original films by Brazilian filmmakers, from July 16 through August 3, 2009.