Fests and events, 10/25.

"Two domestic terrorist dramas from Germany are part of the line-up at the Rome International Film Festival," notes Boyd van Hoeij at Cineuropa: "the big-budget action drama The Baader Meinhof Complex and the intimate Long Shadows. Both look at the Red Army Faction (RAF), though the latter is more concerned with the consequences of the RAF."

"On October 29th, the new Temporäre Kunsthalle will open in Berlin, making the city even more of an international art mecca," notes Marisa Olson at Rhizome. "Their inaugural exhibition features four ambitious multi-channel video installations by Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz."

With the exhibition Gainsbourg 2008 on view at the Musée de Musique in Paris through March 1, the Independent's John Lichfield tracks the rediscovery of Serge Gainsbourg "by young people in his home country as one of the few truly original musicians that France produced in the classic years of pop and rock."

Jason Gray posts another roundup from the Tokyo International Film Festival, which wraps tomorrow.

Steve Dollar hits the highlights of the Sitges Film Festival for Paste - and goes into more detail at his 24xps.

"It's hard to believe that it's already three years since Susan Oxtoby came down from Canada to join the Pacific Film Archive as senior curator," writes Michael Fox, introducing his interview for SF360. "As the director of programming at Toronto's Cinematheque Ontario since 1997, and a curator before that, Oxtoby organized a veritable flood of filmmaker retrospectives from GW Pabst to Rithy Panh, national cinema overviews, thematic series (such as Film and Architecture, Dante and the Cinema and The Sound of Silent Cinema) and special events."

"Why is MirageMan, with its rather minimal plot and ultra low budget, possibly my favourite film of Toronto After Dark?" wonders Bob Turnbull.

Posted by dwhudson at October 25, 2008 8:44 AM