I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen...

In the spirit of hunting down Hallowe'en treats in a few days, here are some potentially tasty local screen scenes that veer slightly off the beaten path:

Cinema Dante - danteottawa.ca
Annually organized by the Ottawa Chapter of The Dante Alighieri Society (Società Dante Alighieri, Comitato di Ottawa), this Italian film festival's biweekly 2010 schedule continues 'til mid-December at the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Ave. http://www.danteottawa.ca/

Seventeen Voyces - seventeenvoyces.ca
If you regret missing the live, instrumentally accompanied screening of Buster Keaton's The General (1927) featured as part of the Mayfair Theatre's Silents is Golden program earlier this month, local choral music auteurs Seventeen Voyces lends its own stylish musical tone to it Oct. 29 and 30 at St. Matthew's Anglican Church, 130 Glebe St. http://www.seventeenvoyces.ca/

Ottawa Film Society - filmfilmfilm.ca
Another festival continuing 'til December is being hosted by the Ottawa Film Society with monthly, double bill screenings for its members at the Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St. In Transition: New Polish Cinema of Social Concern premieres seven Polish films in its eight-title schedule. http://www.filmfilmfilm.ca/mini_10.html

Canadian Film Institute - cfi-icf.ca
The unstompable champ of internationally flavoured feature fests, CFI's featly dance card finishes off this month with Festival Japan 2010 before launching its 25th Annual European Union Film Festival starting mid-November. The schedule should be up soon. http://www.cfi-icf.ca/

Saw Gallery - galeriesawgallery.com
Last but not least, Saw Gallery queues up its often refreshing take on moving pictures with its upcoming videographic exhibition The Art Star 4 Video Biennial, Oct. 29 'til Nov. 6 at 67 Nicholas Street. http://www.galeriesawgallery.com

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