New York Film Festival coverage:

• First day thoughts, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 
• Day 2: Eric Rohmer’s The Romance of Astree and Celadon, and Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• Sidney Lumet on the death of celluloid 

Other news:

• Listen to our weekly podcast, FilmCouch: Into the Wild, The Mosquito Coast, and Heavy Metal in Baghdad.
• It looks like Wes Anderson can have a career in advertising if the whole man-child cinema wunderkind thing doesn’t pan out.
• Why are bloggers having to play publicists on behalf of Brad Pitt’s new flick?
• Richard Kelly’s follow-up to Donnie Darko finally gets a trailer.
• Karina makes some musical confessions in support of Kurt Cobain: About a Son.
• Samsung asks Sean Penn to introduce them to new customers.
• We need Julien Temple’s The Great Rock N’ Roll Swindle now more than ever.
• Investigating the link between two Joy Division movies and the philosophy of ghosts.
• Lloyd Kaufman: Hillary-hater, indie film warrior.
• David Edelstein uses his newly-established blog to resurrect a long-ago beef with A.O. Scott.
• Peter Bart lashes out at the blogosphere yet again.
• A full cut of There Will Be Blood may surface in Austin this weekend. Plus: pictures from Fantastic Fest.