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From June 24 to 29, Faro Island, where Ingmar Bergman lived for more than thirty years, will play host to the fifth annual Bergman Film Festival, Bergmanveckan. For this year's edition, the first since the Swedish filmmaker's death, the programmers have invited a slew of special guests, including directors Margarethe von Trotta and Jan Troell, and Bergman collaborators such as actress Gunnel Lindblom and production manager Allen Ekelund. The film selection includes some of the usual suspects (The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Silence) as well as some of Bergman’s lesser known titles (Summer Interlude, Waiting Women, The Touch). Click here for more information on Bergman Week.

Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, the new biography by New Yorker editor and critic Richard Brody (who also wrote liner notes for the recent Criterion release of Pierrot le fou), hit bookshelves on May 13, and it's already received accolades. Publishers Weekly calls it "comprehensive and fascinating," while filmmaker Wes Anderson says, "Just at the moment when the New Wave turns fifty, Brody has given us a remarkable book which describes with sharp intelligence a great and elusive artist's times, intellect, passions, and work." Everything Is Cinema is available for order now from Amazon.com.