Fests and events, 11/29.

The retrospective "Hard Questions: The Films of Amos Gitai" runs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from November 30 through December 8; in the New York Times, Steven Erlanger considers "Gitai's efforts to mix documentary techniques into a fictional form, to capture the confusions and cracked truths of the Middle East conflict in films with narrative drive."

For the Hollywood Reporter, Randee Dawn congratulates Jim Jarmusch for receiving a Gotham Awards feature tribute from the IFP and Trisha Tucker talks with another tributee, Matt Dillon while Gregg Goldstein surveys the event as a whole.

Hans Helmut Prinzler discusses the 30th Retrospective slated for the Berlinale (February 9 through 19): "The films of [the 50s] depict changes, experiences that are naturally linked to the Second World War, and also the new political conditions. Women and actresses in certain roles reacted to the times in very diverse ways and this can be seen in the films we selected."

Brian Brooks sends a dispatch from the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam into indieWIRE (and Matt Dentler's been snapping shots), where Michael Gibbons reports on the Mix Brasil Film and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity.

Sujewa Ekanayake will be talking about making Date Number One at the Kensington Row Bookshop in Maryland at 7:30 pm on Thursday.

For the Al-Ahram Weekly, Mohamed El-Assyouti looks ahead to the Cairo International Film Festival, through December 9. Via Perlentaucher's "Magazinrundschau."

Posted by dwhudson at November 29, 2005 12:39 PM