The festival will be held October 13-16, bringing movie-industry celebs to the streets of Woodstock and more than 130 films, panels and other events to venues from Saugerties to Rhinebeck to Rosendale.

It’s a simple, and, I contend, the most revealing question that a moviegoer can ask of him or herself. It has very little to do with popularity or publicly accepted “greatness.”

Of all the careers launched via regular appearances on Ira Glass’s extraordinary show, none has captured the limelight quite so winningly as the quirky commentator David Sedaris. His classic, only slightly-exaggerated account of the travails of a Macy’s Christmas elf, The Santaland Diaries, made Sedaris an instant star.

Mary Stuart Masterson directs Good Dirt this Sunday at Bard. Following the performance, there will be a community picnic on the Fisher Center’s lawn. Bring your own picnic and blanket, or sample the offerings available on-site for purchase, featuring goods from some of the farmers portrayed in Good Dirt and other local purveyors.

A new documentary to be screened this Friday at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, The Seventh Fire, tells the story of