Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:17PM - By Tom von Logue Newth

The AFI Fest defines itself as the festival of festivals and as director of programming, Robert Koehler pointed out before this screening, there would have been a glaring hole without this year’s Palme d’Or winner from Cannes, Michael Haneke’s Das weisse Band.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:44PM - By Tom von Logue Newth

It is finally upon us – as I type the crowds are thronged outside the Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard for the American Film Institute Film Festival Opening Gala and North American Premiere of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr Fox (already covered by Screencrave from the London Film Festival – ahead of the game as usual).
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