Fests and events, 12/6.

"Meditative and often the filmmaker's stream-of-consciousness, Forever, at 95 minutes long, is a highly constructed yet meandering exploration of what the dead take away and what they leave in their absence," writes Anne S Lewis. More from Austin Film Society Director of Programming Chale Nafus. Heddy Honigmann's doc screens at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin.

Tomorrow night at the Alamo Lake Creek: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead with Lloyd Kaufman. And also in the Austin Chronicle, Josh Rosenblatt talks with Kaufman "about his battles with oversized rats, the importance of staying independent in a corporate world, and why he's a better filmmaker than the Coen brothers."

For the LA Weekly, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert previews "the three movies that conclude Cinefamily's series of silent works by master filmmakers": Josef von Sternberg's Underworld, Howard Hawks's Fig Leaves and Frank Capra's The Matinee Idol.

"Somewhere between iPhone and YouTube there's a wee festival known as miniPAH," writes Robert Avila at SF360. "So drastic a departure from an industry-oriented approach may seem surprising coming from a member of so storied a filmmaking family (Christopher [Coppola] is nephew to Francis Ford Coppola and brother to Nicolas Cage). Then again, there's always been a maverick aspect to the Coppola clan."

"The roster of 83 short films that will screen at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 - 27) were chosen from a record 5,100 entries, festival organizers noted on Wednesday." Eugene Hernandez has the report and the list at indieWIRE.

Posted by dwhudson at December 6, 2007 8:01 AM