Fests and events, 10/11.

"The only thing, perhaps, that has prevented [Andrzej] Wajda from becoming the sort of art-household name that Fellini and Bergman and Antonioni became is that his style, unlike those of his more famous contemporaries, is changeable, unsettled, hard to define. You never know quite what to expect from a Wajda picture." The occasion for Terrence Rafferty's career assessment in the New York Times is Truth or Dare: The Films of Andrzej Wajda, running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from October 17 through November 13. "And a week later Anthology Film Archives chimes in with a five-day series of half a dozen films made by Mr Wajda for Polish Television Theater, none of which have been shown in the United States before."

"Documentaries rarely get confused with horror films, but Andy Abrahams Wilson's Under Our Skin has the singular ability to inspire nightmares," writes Michael Fox, introducing his interview with Wilson for SF360. "This elegantly crafted film is a far-ranging portrait of the underreported epidemic of Lyme disease, and the health care community's underestimation of the disease's effects and treatments." He also talks with Marilyn Mulford about Archaeology of Memory; both docs are screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

At the Evening Class, Michael Hawley previews San Francisco's Doc Fest, running October 17 through 30.

The Documentary Doctor, Fernanda Rossi, author of Trailer Mechanics: A Guide to Making your Documentary Fundraising Trailer, will be conducting workshops in San Francisco this month. She takes a question at SF360.

The cinetrix rounds up Boston area goings on.

"[A]utumns in London offer a run of cinema-led Latin American events that are at once eye-opening, and transporting." An overview from Demetrios Matheou in the Guardian.

Marilyn Ferdinand is previewing films that'll be screening at the Chicago International Film Festival, running October 16 through 29.

Online listening tip. "Eliot Grove is the founder and director of the Raindance Film Festival, which is the UK's largest independent film festival." And Ambrose Heron interviews him. The festival runs through Sunday.

Posted by dwhudson at October 11, 2008 12:03 PM