The press release came in Friday afternoon, but I had already abandoned the computer for Tribeca screenings, so I’m just looking at it in depth now: BAMcinematek has announced the lineup for BAMcinemaFEST, the summer event that replaces what was formerly known as Sundance and BAM –– and, it would seem, builds on it substantially. A sampling of the program’s highlights:

• The New York premieres of some of the most interesting American indie festival films of the year, including Beeswax, Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, Children of Invention, Humpday, Sorry, Thanks and You Won’t Miss Me.
• On July 1, “An Evening with Arnaud Desplechin,” in which the director of A Christmas Tale “presents two personal favorites: Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) followed by a conversation with film critic Kent Jones; and then Desplechin will introduce the next screening, François Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid.” I had planned to be out of the country that night, but this sounds almost good enough to change my plans.
• A screening of Metropolis with “live performance of original score by Irish ambient rock collective 3epkano.”
• A retrospective sidebar featuring films by Visconti, Jarmusch and a special 20th anniversary screening of Do the Right Thing.
• Parties! Including the after party for opening night film Don’t Let me Drown, and an all-night movie marathon.

The festival runs from June 17 to July 2.