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“In its third edition spread over four days from November 13 - 16, 2008 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, with special live events at the Apple Store and the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, the San Francisco Film Society presents the San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), which celebrates ‘one of the most fertile, creative and productive forms of artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media.’” A preview from Michael Guillén.

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“It’s October again and time for accounting another year of horror film releases on DVD. The crop’s been down, owing partly to diminished disc sales overall, and the fact of known quantity chillers being offered up in past seasons. We’ve pretty nearly dredged the lake.” Nevertheless, John McElwee finds a few highlights for the season, thanks mostly to the little studio that could - “My policy dictates that whatever is good in Hammer mitigates all that isn’t” - and an event honoring a very special face: his wife “says I ignore household matters but am vitally interested in what Boris Karloff might have said on some street corner back in August 1933, to which I reply, Well, what did he say?”

Speaking of whom. Observer film critic Philip French has chosen his five “scariest films” and at the top of the list is Frankenstein, whose director, James Whale, comes in for special praise from Jonathan Lapper, too: “Now that man could direct.”

Continued reading Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 08, 10/20….

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The London Film Festival opened last week and runs through to the end of the month. How’s it been going so far? The Observer’s Jason Solomons hits a few of the highlights, while the Guardian’s Xan Brooks looks ahead, with recommendations for the second week: “Might I recommend Tony Manero…?”

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The New York Film Festival is one of the most thoroughly covered events of each movie year - at least online, and certainly on a per-film basis. For all the obvious reasons: It’s in New York, a city thronged with writers working for media old and new, and some simply for themselves. Most importantly, the festival is a vital measure of the year so far, just before Hollywood rolls out its awards season contenders. Not a complete measure, of course - many would like to have seen, say, the new Claire Denis in the lineup - but here’s what we’ve got:

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“Defining the end points of the continuum of fine art/popular culture, performance artist Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project and actor cum Charlize Theron paramour cum director Stuart Townsend’s Battle in Seattle highlight every (should be) obvious parallel between today’s wars and corporate oligarchies and those of yesterday,” writes Sarahjane Blum. “Both The Port Huron Project and Battle in Seattle offer guilt trips of the highest order, and we should learn a thing or two hundred from the anti-war icons of the Vietnam era, and the thousands of protesters who stopped 1999’s World Trade Organization. But if politically engaged filmmakers keep focusing on how little ground has been won, will we lose sight of how much ground has been lost?”

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