What we’ve been reading – October 5th through October 7th:

• Hollywood’s latest crisis.
  As André Bazin would tell you, the studio system was the entity that really perfected "invisible editing," and these days it seems it can't even demand common craftsmanship of its dumbass romantic comedies. A bad sign, to be sure.
• Wallowing in Artistic Misery at the New York Film Festival
  AO Scott on "Festivaling"
• Festivals feel the political heat
  The debate about whether a film-maker should be held responsible for the actions of their government stepped up a gear at Toronto. Canadian film-maker John Greyson pulled his short film, Covered, out of the festival in protest at the City to City sidebar being devoted to film-makers and films from and about Tel Aviv, amid claims the Israeli government had influenced Tiff’s programme…