Fests and events, 11/30.

At Twitch, Ardvark spots a bit of news from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 23 through February 3): "The final list of films and showings will be released only a few weeks in advance but their website already lifts a corner of the veil."

"The 13 documentaries featured in Art on Screen 2007, a three-day festival of award-winning art documentaries from around the world running this weekend at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, are a good deal more sober than the Hollywood biopics that usually exploit the turbulence lurking in the creative spark," writes Steve Dollar. Also in the New York Sun, Grady Hendrix previews Film Forum's Ousmane Sembène retro.

"Memories of Tomorrow is the first movie I've seen about [Alzheimer's] that is told from the sick person's point of view, not that of family members," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "The director, Yukihiko Tsutsumi, often uses a subjective camera to show the commonplace world melting into bewildering patterns and meanings." At Facets through December 6.

Posted by dwhudson at November 30, 2007 7:00 AM