Fests and events, 10/25.

"As the war in Iraq grinds on, one of the era's most iconic happenings continues to be Camp Casey, the makeshift encampment erected by Gold Star mom and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan during August 2005 in Crawford, Texas, just a stone's throw from a vacationing President Bush," writes the Independent Weekly's Neil Morris, noting that a 45-minute trailer for a doc-in-progress, Crawford, Texas, will be screening tomorrow evening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Via Wiley Wiggins:

"Since its inaugural year in 2002, the Global Lens film festival has gotten around, rather restlessly around, crisscrossing the country from Manhattan to Vashon Island with many far-flung points in between like a Beatnik with a yen for riding the rails," writes Robert Avila at SF360. "Which is more or less the idea. Except that instead of setting out to discover America, the traveling series of recent Third World cinema - a cornerstone of the nonprofit Global Film Initiative (GFI) - is out to help overwhelmingly passportless Americans discover the world."

"Is cinematic love, like, so last century?" Looking back over 15 films caught at the New York Film Festival, Filmbrain may have spotted a trend, but he's not sure. Even after drawing up a chart (which you really should go take a look at).

"In the past few months, I have visited four festivals much apart geographically and in the length of time they have been established," writes Ronald Bergan in roundup for the Guardian: "55-year-old San Sebastian in Spain; a 12-year-old youngster, Pusan in South Korea, which offers the widest possible window on Asian cinema; and babies Copenhagen and Reykjavik, five and four respectively. All of them were exciting in their own way. Besides the cream of the year's crop of world cinema, they offered the best of their own national products, the opportunity to question many film directors and tasty retrospectives."

Ken Russell grabs some free stuff at the London Film Festival. Related Tom Huddleston's been reviewing about a movie a day at Not Coming to a Theater Near You. The Guardian's special section rolls on, and of course, so does that of the co-presenter, the Times.

At the Reeler, Mat Newman has an overview of DocFest 07. New York, through November 1.

Posted by dwhudson at October 25, 2007 2:04 PM