Other fests, other events, 9/27.

"In this, their 20th year, the aGLIFF [Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival] once again throws open the doors of the Arbor Cinema at Great Hills and invites you to one of the most inclusive occasions on the calendar," writes James Renovitch. "[Programming Director Lisa] Kaselak, in her first year, deserves the praise for casting a wide cinematic net and, just by being herself, an even wider sense of welcome." And the Austin Chronicle previews around a dozen or so features. Tomorrow through October 6.

"Every year I remain in awe at what is my favorite festival," writes Jason Whyte, previewing the Vancouver International Film Festival for Hollywood Bitchslap. Today through October 12.

"The filmmakers represented in the Boston Palestinian Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts [Saturday through October 7] confront the troubles of that hellish area with documentary, fiction, allegory, and combinations of the three," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix. "In his obsessive study of impoverished Cape Verdeans living on the margins of Lisbon, Pedro Costa resorts to those genres and more, including some of his own that I don't think anyone has quite put a name to yet." Colossal Works: The Films of Pedro Costra runs Friday through Sunday at the Harvard Film Archive.

With the SF DocFest set to open tomorrow (it runs through October 10), the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Kevin Langson and Cheryl Eddy highlight, respectively, Ghosts and Numbers & Luchando and Golden Days and A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake.

Robert Avila previews a slew of titles, too, for SF360.

"We're always up against the New York Film Festival," Coney Island Film Festival founder and programmer Rob Leddy tells John Lichman at the Reeler. "It's a different audience anyway. I think we attract more of an arts crowd than they ever will." Tomorrow through the weekend.

"The Rome Film Festival has announced its full lineup, featuring a rich mix of quality crowdpleasers and more esoteric fare, peppered with plenty of stars, including Robert Redford and Tom Cruise, who are expected to come tubthump Lions for Lambs," reports Variety's Nick Vivarelli. October 18 through 27.

More lineups in place: Mill Valley (October 4 through 14) and the Hamptons (October 17 through 21).

Helen Hill "became an important figure in the New Orleans independent filmmaking scene until her violent death last January," Holly Willis reminds us in the LA Weekly. On Monday, October 1, REDCAT will be screening several of her short films as a memorial.

"The more than 60 faces on display at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills belong to some of the most photographed people in the world," writes David Ng. "But this solo exhibition by Martin Schoeller isn't your ordinary paparazzo blitz. The German photographer, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Vogue and many other magazines, looks to turn celebrity portraiture into an act of contemplative scrutiny and artful asceticism." Through October 13.

Also in the Los Angeles Times: A roundup of local goings on from Susan King.

"Protest, tourism, politics, and labor tend to figure at the center of Romania-born, Paris-based artist Mircea Cantor's short films, but for work that hinges on the display and distribution of power, they are far from didactic," writes William Hanley at Rhizome. "The exhibition marks the beginning of a season with a film- and video-heavy schedule at the [Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden] that culminates in February with the first installment of a two-part exhibition titled The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image." Through December 9.

Todd Brown posts Twitch's "TIFF 2007 Round Up!"

Posted by dwhudson at September 27, 2007 3:05 PM