Fests and events, 11/27.

"The Greek-French director Costa-Gavras will be the President of the International Jury of the Berlinale 2008." And! The Homage "will be dedicated to the renowned Italian director Francesco Rosi," who "will receive the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement on February 14, 2008."

IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez reports on an expansive state-of-the-doc program/party thrown by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA, through Saturday), while Brian Brooks reports on a film anyone with any interest in documentaries is going to want to at least know about. In Wild Blue Yonder, Celia Maysles "exposes a deeper family rift that emerged after her father David Maysles's death, when her own mother battled Albert Maysles for control of previous films, against an internal pact made by the two brothers."

IndieWIRE also posts a heads-up for the busy week ahead: following an announcement of the Indie Spirit Awards in a couple of hours, the winners of the IFP Gotham Awards will be named; then, tomorrow, the Sundance competition lineup will be unveiled, followed on Thursday by lineups for the festival's other sections.

These "mumblecore" movies, they're "massively indulgent, irritating and aimless, or fantastically real, insightful and uncontrived. Either response is totally legitimate; these movies are totally a matter of viewer taste, mood, perspective," writes Dennis Harvey at SF360. "Hannah Takes the Stairs, which opens at the Red Vic this Friday, is the perfect case in point."

Kubrick at the Seoul Art Cinema: Through Sunday. Thanks, Jerry!

Posted by dwhudson at November 27, 2007 7:14 AM