South by Southwest Film festival had its closing ceremonies Tuesday, right before the hordes descended for the music portion of the fest. While the music festival is the loudest, the film festival has quietly become a place for innovative filmmakers...
South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced the first round of confirmed speakers for 2009: writer/directors Todd Haynes and R;chard Linklater in conversation together, an appearance by founder and vice president of IMDb Col Needham; and longtime Stanley Kubrick...
I had the pleasure of meeting Kurt Kuenne a few years ago, when he was directing the Texas-flavored Drive-In Movie Memories. That's a documentary produced by Don and Susan Sanders of Grapevine, who included me in the list of...
So I have made it back to my safe Dallas cave (time of journey from Austin: 2 hours, 45 minutes. Speed Racer, baby). Saw lots of good stuff. What were my top five SX movies, you ask? Oh you didn't...
The nerds are here in full force. No, I'm not dissing the socially challenged among us. But when one of the hot films at the festival is called Nerdcore Rising, the other N-word is fair game....
Billy Bob Thornton is standing across from me in the Radisson lobby. He's on a panel tomorrow afternoon - conversation with Billy Bob kinda thing - and his band is actually playing at Antone's tomorrow night. He's being very cool...
Gun nut, drug nut, all-around nut: the late Hunter S. Thompson was hell on literary wheels. He rolls on with full force in Gonzo, a robust portrait directed by recent documentary Oscar winner Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side)...
A pair of strong docs at SXSW, Crawford and Tulia, Texas, present complex looks at small-town Texas life. Crawford, directed by Austin's David Modigliani, looks at what happened when a president looking for a frontier image moved into a town...
Josh Brolin strolled into the Dobie Saturday around 2 p.m., just as the lights were dimming for his short film, X. He looked like a man who didn't really want to be noticed and didn't want to take any attention...
AUSTIN - Last night I caught Super High Me, one of several films at SXSW about pot and the smoking thereof (others include Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Humboldt County). The premise of this doc is a direct...
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