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SFIFF is your BFF
Flip to page 18 and catch an interview with Santa Fe International Film Festival Executive Director Liesette Bailey. Go ahead, we’ll wait. OK, cool, now that you’re back you likely know that this year’s SFIFF—it’s sixteenth, btw—kicks off on Wednesday, Oct. 16, which is the same day this issue of SFR comes out. And it runs through Sunday, Oct. 20. If you read the interview, you likely also now know that the fest is crammed with more than 100 films, plus free talks and panels and parties and stuff. Obviously we’ve mentioned this fest a couple times before now, but Bailey got us all amped about it. Direct your internet machines to santafe.film for a full breakdown of the films and to find tickets.
In This Business of Show One Must Have the Skin of an Oliphant
New Mexico’s Los Metates Studios has announced a casting call for its upcoming action comedy Operation White Elephant. Set to start filming in Albuquerque this November, the film focuses on two Russian sleeper agents who go undercover at a holiday party circa 1986. To get the deets, visit losmetatesstudios.com/auditions.
Baby’s Got the Bends—Oh, No!
Cheers to the Center for Contemporary Arts for its currently running Silents Synced-Nosferatu/Radiohead, an event that finds Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums synced to 1923 vampire film Nosferatu. This is precisely the type of stuff for which arthouse cinemas exist, and even if OK Computer is obviously Radiohead’s magnum opus, those other albums are pretty cool, too. Also, ask yourself if you’ve ever seen Nosferatu, or if you just kind of know what it looks like. Yeah, that’s what we thought. For those who don’t know it even at all, Nosferatu—or NoFu as we believe it should be called from now on—is about a hairless vampire who walks up stairs all creepy while thirsting for blood. Visit ccasantafe.org for times and tickets.
PSA: Even Now They Have Your Darling linda’s soul
Jean Cocteau Cinema hosts a screening of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II at 8 pm on Thursday, Oct. 17. Of the three initial Evil Dead films, it’s definitely the most fun, or at least has the best chainsaw arm moments. You’ve been told. Head to jeancocteaucinema.com for all the pertinent info.
PSA 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
If it’s creepy films you seek, the Lensic Performing Arts Center is not only slated to screen 1999’s The Blair Witch Project at 7 pm on Halloween night, they’re doing it for free. You just have to visit lensic.org to reserve your spot and not spoil it for the n00bs.
