Events and fests.

Pather Panchali turns 50 this year, and the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection at the University of California in Santa Cruz is celebrating tomorrow with a lecture and screening. Aseem Chhabra has a backgrounder on the new restoration of the film for India Abroad.

The Austin Film Festival (blog) runs through tomorrow, and of course, the Austin Chronicle's picked its highlights. Brick (site), a noir set in a high school, screens tonight; Marc Savlov talks to writer-director Rian Johnson.

The Austin American-Statesman's AFF package naturally features a list of highlights but also three conversations about comedy: Chris Garcia talks with Harold Ramis and Buck Henry and John DeFore talks with Judd Apatow. Via Matt Dentler.

Brian sends in a first report for Cinema Strikes Back.

Jette Kernion's rounded up more goings on in Austin at Cinematical.

Acquarello is looking forward to the series, "A Luminous Country: Celebrating Norwegian Cinema" (November 12 through 29 at the Walter Reade), though he's disappointed the "thoughtful and elegant documentary, The Man Who Loved Haugesund," won't be part of it.

Richard Rushfield is blogging the Hollywood Film Festival for the Los Angeles Times.

"If Toronto's behemoth of a fest now embodies North America's market-obsessed view of cinema," writes Johnny Ray Huston in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, "then Vancouver - thanks to programmers Tony Rayns and Mark Peranson - is the art form's heart beating in the dark, a friendly and intelligent site where economic caste systems aren't so dominant." More from David Walsh at WSWS.

Also in the SFBG, Cheryl Eddy talks with Shannon Lark about the local Halloween events she's got a hand in, such as Re-Animator of the Dead.

In the Boston Phoenix, Gerald Peary recommends "New York Stories: The Films of Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin" at the Harvard Film Archive.

Return to Busan: At Koreanfilm.org, Darcy Paquet, Adam Hartzell and Aynne Kokas offer various views on various moments of this year's Pusan International Film Festival and Adam, by the way, reviews one of Lee Man-hee's films not shown at the fest, The Marines Who Never Returned. HanCinema's got pix of the fest.

At indieWIRE:

• Aileen Torres's preview of the Virginia Film Festival.

• ML Liu's of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

• Jonny Leahan's look back at the Morelia International Film Festival.

• Eugene Hernandez's report on the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.

• Brian Brooks lists the winners in Chicago.

Updates on the London Film Festival from the Times of London and Guardian.

It's been called "Europe's answer to Sundance": The European Independent Film Festival is slated for March 22 through 25 in Paris and may head out to other parts of the globe from there.

Posted by dwhudson at October 22, 2005 3:33 PM