Other fests, other events, 1/27.

"While the Sundance 2008 comes to close and the air clears around the buzz for the big sales out of the premiere and competition sections, the often wrongly overlooked New Frontiers and Midnight programs float to the surface as some of the year's most interesting offerings." Michael Lerman looks back on the highlights for indieWIRE.

"This was the year that independent, personal cinema surpassed celebrity-driven genre films, hands down and no debate about it," writes Tom Hall, just back from Park City.

Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed will be screening a few more times at Seattle's Children's Film Festival, notes David Jeffers at the Siffblog.

It's a good week at the Silent Movie Theatre, notes Andy Klein in the LA CityBeat.

"Pre-Code is back," announces Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. "For the third time in less than five years, the UCLA Film & Television Archive has come up with a series devoted to this most exciting era of American film, a time when movies were just learning to talk and had the irrational exuberance to prove it." Universal Preservation: Pre-Code Films from the Universal and Paramount Libraries runs through February 27.

Eddie Muller's opened Noir City 6 with a few words and Michael Guillén's taken extensive notes. Plus, chats with writers of noirish tales.

Posted by dwhudson at January 27, 2008 2:32 PM