Other fests, other events, 10/1.

"The Reykjavik International Film Festival kicked off last Thursday with the premier of Heima (Home in English), a breathtaking documentary/concert film about one of Iceland’s biggest musical exports Sigur Ros," writes Swarez at Twitch. IndieWIRE's Brian Brooks also sends a dispatch from Reykjavik.

"I am properly awed by the size and selection of the 43rd annual Chicago International Film Festival, which opens on Thursday at the Chicago Theatre with the US premiere of The Kite Runner," writes Roger Ebert in the Sun-Times. "Michael Kutza's 14-day extravaganza, the oldest competitive film festival in America, has put together a program that combines lots of big premieres and stars with lots and lots of discoveries." Through October 17.

Matthew Tempest, blogging for the Guardian, on Erice - Kiarostami. Correspondances: "[I]t is more than a simple joint retrospective of their works (although they are programmed in their entirety too, through the six-month life of the exhibition, which opened this week and runs until January). Instead, the format takes the somewhat gimmicky conceit of a "correspondence" between the two artists - in digital video form." At the Centre Pompidou through January 8.

"The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is celebrating [The Jazz Singer's] 80th anniversary Friday - just one day shy of its original premiere date - with a newly restored and remastered digital version made from the earliest surviving nitrate film elements and original Vitaphone sound-on-disc recordings by Warner Bros," notes Susan King in the Los Angeles Times.

Posted by dwhudson at October 1, 2007 6:38 AM