New York Film Festival coverage:

• Brian DePalma schedules a last-minute press conference to talk about Redacted.
• Todd Haynes talks about casting women and children in the Bob Dylan-inspired I’m Not There.
• Silent Light: The Best Film at NYFF
• I’m Not There? I’m not a fan.

Chicago International Film Festival coverage:

• Press preview
• Tribute to Roger Ebert

The best of the rest:

• The Lumiere Manifesto Seeks To Dogme-ize YouTube
• There Will Be Blood: The First Real Trailer
• Looking Forward To Desert Bayou
• David Lynch Pays the Mortgage
• YouTube Assumes Online Videomakers Secretly Long to Go To Sundance
• About a Son: The United 93 of Kurt Cobain movies
• Vincent Gallo: Still Anal
• The Movies That Inspired The Simpsons
• SAW Blood Drives: More Porn Than Torture?
• The International Documentary Association’s Top 25 Documentaries EVER.
• John Landis gossips about Alfred Hitchchock, Don Ameche and the “shitty” Universal Studios cafeteria
• On our weekly podcast FilmCouch, Kevin and Paul covered A.J. Schnack’s Kurt Cobain: About a Son, and Karina ranted about one of the few documentary selections at NYFF, The Axe in the Attic.