IFC Films, which specializes in multiplex-adverse fare, is receiving a salute at – no, not the IFC Center in the West Village – but at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn.
Seven films – some released recently, others to be released shortly – will unreel Friday through March 6.
The mini-fest’s anchor is Ken’s Loach’s “It’s a Free World” (2007). A look at the plight of Eastern European immigrants in the UK, it will have at least one showing a day.
Taiwanese great Hou Hsiao-hsien will have two entries: “Three Times” (2005), with Shu Qi, the nudie queen turned legit actress, and “Flight of the Red Balloon” (2007). The latter, featuring Juliette Binoche as a harried single mom, debuted last year at the New York Film Festival and begins a theatrical run April 2.
Gus Van Sant’s rockin’ skateboard drama “Paranoid Park” (2007) will get a BAM showing before its March 7 release. And Claude Chabrol’s dark comedy “A Girl Cut in Two” (2007) will preview ahead of its summer release.
Rounding out BAM’s jamboree are two by Frenchman Christophe Honore, both featuring Louis Garrel, progeny of filmmaker Philippe Garrel: “Dans Paris” (2006), which I panned when it played here last year, and “Love Songs” (2007), which begins a run March 19.
Louis Garrel and Honore are scheduled for a Q&A when BAM screens “Love Songs” March 2.
Check bam.org for showtimes.
* Speaking of Philippe Garrel, his 1991 “J’entends Plus la Guitare” will be projected Monday at 8:30 p.m. as part of the “Film Comment Selects” festival at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. It begins a commercial run March 7.
Johanna ter Steege is featured as a woman modeled after the late Nico, the Velvet Underground singer and Warhol superstar. Nico was Garrel’s lover and frequent fixture in his films.
* The people at Universal have no shame. Last week I pointed out that a glowing quote in their ads for “Definitely, Maybe” attributed to “the Times” made it appear that they were referring to the New York Times when the blurb (a dumb one, at that) actually came from the Times of London Online.
Believe it or not, the misleading ads continue to appear. Whatever happened to truth in advertising?
V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com