Fests and events, 10/26.

"Ozu's project was to uphold the traditional Japanese family; Imamura's was to explode it. The rebel's dynamite? The will and sexuality of the poor Japanese female." For the Stranger, Charles Mudede previews A Man Vanishes: The Legacy of Shohei Imamura, a series running at the Northwest Film Forum through November 12.

"The sky over Vienna remains dark and ominous today." Cyril Neyrat carries on filing Viennale journal entries for Cahiers du cinéma. "Last night, a capacity crowd gathered at the Filmmuseum to listen to [Jean-Pierre Gorin's] improvised lecture on Vertov and got more than their money's worth. A summary in four points..."

"The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open on November 22 with Richard Robbins's Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, based on the letters, poems, essays and diary entries of American soldiers in Iraq," reports indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez.

AJ Schnack notes that the Denver Film Festival has unveiled its lineup. November 8 through 18.

The Chicago Reader previews the Chicago Humanities Film Festival (Monday through November 8) and remaining highlights of the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (both through Sunday).

The Tate Modern will be showing five programs of films by Ernie Gehr from Friday, November 2, through Sunday, November 4.

"The Retrospective of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival will honor Spanish director Luis Buñuel." February 7 through 17.

Posted by dwhudson at October 26, 2007 1:11 PM