No one's quite sure what accounts for the drastic rise in attendence--fest bossman Matt Dentler says it wasn't even this nuts during the dot-com heyday--except, perhaps, there is a swell opening-night movie this year (Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, which press-screened this morning and is a joyous, occasionally heartbreaking rendering of Garrison Keillor's famed radio show), and there might be the Lindsay Lohan pop-in at the Paramount Theater for tonight's 9:45 p.m. screening. (As if.) If she shows, I'll miss it: I'm going to the annual Texas Film Hall of Fame induction dinner-drinkyfest, to see Matthew McConaughey, JoBeth Williams, Kris Kristofferson and The Last Picture Show (that is, Cybill Shepherd) get inducted into...what, Canton, Texas? --Robert Wilonsky