The full program is out for the Adelaide Film Festival, as usual there is lots of interesting stuff. I had some admittedly unrealistic hopes for My Name is Albert Ayler in the music docs section, and for something new from Eric Rohmer in the World Cinema selection, but neither of those was ever really likely. If you have the time I suggest a 5 or 10 film pass (which come with 1 or daytime tickets respectively), though individual session tickets are also available.

Here’s some of the films that have caught my attention:

Bamako puts the World Bank and IMF on trial

The Bothersome Man “Not far beneath the clever surface of this film, you will find a cry of despair that will be familiar to anyone who has ever spent more than an hour in an Ikea showroom.”

Infamous the same story as Capote, which I thought was excellent. I’m curious to see a different account of the same events.

Lunacy, it’s years since I’ve heard anything about surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer. I really loved his versions of Alice and Faust, though this one doesn’t sound quite so appealing to me.

Modern Love, gothic Australiana. Could be worthwhile.

One Fine Day offbeat French comedy. I need to get to a at least a couple of French ones to help with my efforts to learn French.

Private Fears in Public Places new film by Alain Resnais, the Nouvelle Vague director who was responsible for the brilliant Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour

Special “A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.”

West drama set in the “suburban badlands west of Sydney”. I come from the western suburbs of Sydney … don’t know about “badlands” though! Might check this out.

Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb truly one of the greatet movies of all time. I’ve probably seen it enough times that I’ll not see it here, but anyone who hasn’t seen it should!

First on the Moon I’m quite curious about this unusual sounding film about the Soviet Union and the space race.

What the Future Sounded Like documentary about pioneers of British electronic music, sounds great.

Black Gold a look at the global coffee trade that should have you buying fair trade from now on.

A Sunday in Hell one for the cyclists.

I do have one gripe about the festival – all of their advertising is a huge rip-off of The Residents who, while not exactly a household name, have been around for over 30 years, and have been using the eyeball masks for around 25 years.