Fests, series and such.

J Hoberman finds plenty of "fascinating stuff" in the MoMA's series, "Rebel With a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany," even if the selection is "a bit cautious... You won't find any of the DDR's mad Marxist musicals, politically correct westerns, through-the-looking-glass spy movies, or Stalinoid historical extravaganzas in this batch." Tomorrow through October 23. Related: Hans-Jörg Rother tours the Konrad Wolf exhibition at the Filmmuseum Potsdam for Tagesspiegel (in German, naturally). Via filmz.de.

Also in the Village Voice: Anthony Kaufman on how things went at "the 27th IFP Market, the Independent Feature Project's annual clearinghouse devoted to works in progress eventually bound for PBS, cable TV, or art house distribution."

Sound Unseen is "10 days of music documentaries, rare concert footage, audio/visual performances, live cinema, concerts, & parties galore." Starts tomorrow in Minneapolis and runs through October 16. The City Pages staff writes up the highlights and Terri Sutton elaborates on a few more.

It seems like every time I've work up one of these "Fests" batches during the New York Film Festival, I come across a major oversight, an excellent collection focal point of coverage I hadn't seen before. This time, it's Slant's.

The guys get down in the third part of Jamie Stuart's unique NYFF report for Mutiny City News.

Now you can listen to Aaron Hillis's thoughts on his NYFF favorites. Following Amy Taubin talking about A History of Violence, Aaron was a recent guest on the Dorian Devins's Speakeasy radio show. And: Aaron's latest update for Premiere.

The Philadelphia City Paper's Sam Adams reports back on the NYFF. And, as always, keep an eye on Cinematical, the IFC Blog, d+kaz and Filmbrain.

Austin's Fantastic Fest, opening tonight and running through the weekend, features sneak previews of Jon Favreau's Zathura and behind-the-scenes peeks at the making of Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. In the Austin Chronicle, Marc Savlov talks with founders "Tim McCanlies, director of Secondhand Lions and writer of The Iron Giant, and South by Southwest Producer Matt Dentler [who, before they created one] were lamenting the fact that Austin, home to more film festivals per capita than any other town in the South or Southwest, was shy a fest in three key areas: fantasy, sci-fi and horror."

SXSW, by the way, will be featuring "A Conversation with Peter Bart" as well as a few of those iconoclasts from Magnolia Pictures, Landmark Theatres and HDNet, talking, of course, about collapsing windows and such.

Blake has pulled together Cinema Strikes Back's complete coverage of QT6 in one handy entry.

Brian Brooks sends a dispatch in to indieWIRE from Reykjavik, where Abbas Kiarostami's just been feted.

Kim Voynar is following the battle of the Montreal film festivals at Cinematical.

In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Cheryl Eddy spotlights a few features of the Mill Valley Film Festival, today through October 16.

Kevin Thomas picks the highlights of three inviting series unreeling within some reasonable distance of the Los Angeles Times. Also an anonymous staffer slips in word of the Liberty Film Festival, a "showcase for conservative and libertarian film," running October 21 through 23.

The Boston Phoenix's Peter Keough looks over the 30th New England Film and Video Festival, through October 10.

IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez looks back on the bright bits of the Woodstock Film Festival.

David Walsh at WSWS: Toronto, part 4.

Posted by dwhudson at October 6, 2005 9:25 AM