September 26, 2006

Other fests and events, 9/26.

Blood Tea and Red String October will be "a month of horror, terror, and general mayhem" at the Pioneer Theater in lovely New York City.

"Who, with the exception of its creator Leonard Schein, could have guessed that Vancouver's nascent film festival would grow from a one venue event showing 40 films in 1982 into one of the largest festivals in the world?" asks Greg Ursic at Hollywood Bitchslap in his preview of the 25th Vancouver International Film Festival.

Shawn Levy: "The 26th Cans Film Festival, a benefit for the Oregon Food Bank Network, will be held on Thursday, September 28, at all Regal Cinemas in Oregon and Clark County, Washington."

Ed Halter in the Voice: "[Su] Friedrich is one of the most accomplished avant-garde filmmakers of her generation, with a career of films and videos whose masterful construction and precise beauty attest to the positive aspects of her self-criticism, and her stature only makes the humbling existential crises in Seeing Red more poignant." MoMA's series runs through Saturday.

Brian Brooks previews the 14th Raindance Film Festival, opening in London tomorrow and running through October 8. Also, Kim Adelman has notes and links on "Ten of the Most Buzzed-About Films from Two of Southern California's Largest Shortfests."

Brooklyn Information and Culture's Rotunda Gallery and New York Magazine launch a free series on October 5 as Logan Hill moderates a discussion with Steven Shainberg (Fur) and Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). Don R Lewis has a rave for Saints at Film Threat; more from Rob Nelson in the Voice.

International Rome Film Festival Camillo de Marco at Cineuropa: "There will be 20 female directors throughout the various sections (four of which are competition) of the International Rome Film Festival." October 13 through 21.

More new lineups, these via Grady Hendrix: The Pusan International Film Festival (October 12 through 20) and the Chicago International Film Festival (October 5 through 19).

"Of the eight TIFFs I've attended, I think this year's was probably the strongest," writes Girish, introducing his reviews of Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Dong, Lisandro Alonso's Fantasma and Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone. More on Toronto from David Walsh at the WSWS.

The Animated Films That Got Away made for a "somewhat disappointing" weekend for Doug Cummings.

Wanna be in a movie? Talk to Jerry Lentz.

Posted by dwhudson at September 26, 2006 3:57 PM

Comments

David,

I've been a bit absent from web browsing these last few weeks with editing my videos and crap, but I just discovered your mention of me in the GC Daily.

There were two people at my "Movie Party" that mentioned the GC Daily and I assumed they might have been talking about the numerous comments I've made, or the MethodFest Videos I posted. However, after checking my webpage stats, I saw the spike from your mention of my party! Now I know they were directed from that!

I can tell they are avid readers of your work, because they both brought more than the one canned food item required for the Food Bank and after the shoot when we were all leaving and they were helping me load up the cans into my trunk, we began talking about "Bush" and Fox News.

Thank you so much for all your help! You are so cool!

Jerry

Posted by: Jerry Lentz at October 1, 2006 6:04 AM

Well, thank you, Jerry!

Posted by: David Hudson at October 1, 2006 8:41 AM