I refuse to believe that Sacha Baron Cohen’s stunt at last night’s MTV Movie Awards — in which he, as Bruno from the upcoming Bruno, flew through the air in an assless winged costume and landed with his legs wrapped around Eminem’s neck, was in any way unscripted — Completely lacking in genuine (and genuinely [...]
Migrating Forms, the festival formed out of the ashes of the now-defunct New York Underground Film Festival, has announced the lineup for their first installment, to take place at New York’s Anthology Film Archives next month. In addition to new works by Sharon Lockhart and Owen Land, Forms will present two films we’ve covered previously, [...]
“We think you’re the most special people in the entire world…so don’t even think about taking out your cellphone, because I’ve been working out, and I will fucking rack your brains into the back of your head. I’m gonna anally rape you. I’m not even joking.”
That was the inimitable Tim League, founder of the beery [...]
Sita Sings the Blues and Roman Holiday teach us about love. Karina tells us what to watch at SXSW.
Brant Sersen’s last film, the Rob Corddry-starring comedy Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, won the audience award at SXSW 5 years back. His follow-up, Splinterheads, stars Rachael Taylor (top billed in the Washingtonienne pilot) and Lea Thompson (riding the heat of the recent resurgance of Howard the Duck), and is premiering at SXSW in Emerging [...]
There’s a Hollywood junk vs. Egyptian trash joke buried somewhere in here: Mai Iskander once worked assistant camera on films like Deep Impact and The Bone Collector. Now, her feature directing debut, Garbage Dreams, is premiering in the Documentary Competition at SXSW. It follows three teenage Egyptian boys for four years, as they go to [...]
To make Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, Peter Esmond followed the titular composer and sound/sculpture artist for two years, capturing his day-to-day process from scavenging at a junk yard to trying to convince the Kronos Quartet to smash their instruments. A clip of the latter scene is embedded below the jump, where Esmonde also talks [...]
Rivkah Beth Medow and Greg O’Toole’s Sons of a Gun follows three non-related schizophrenic adults who live as a family (in a single motel room) under the care of Larry, a drunk with a background in hostage negotiation who took the men in when they had nowhere else to go. After a few work-in-progress screenings [...]
Screening in Narrative Competition at SXSW, Paul Cotter’s Bomber is a family roadtrip comedy about a “lovelorn and useless” adult son who agrees to drive his father to the village in Germany that he accidentally bombed during World War II. Below the jump, Cotter answers The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, with thoughts on Kurosawa [...]
Jody Lee Lipes, cinematographer of Antonio Campos‘ Afterschool, makes his feature length directorial debut with the SXSW Emerging Visions selection Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, a beautifully shot doc about an artist struggling to maintain a somewhat normal domestic relationship while producing a half-baked, largely inscrutable but still vaguely offensive installation [...]
Judi Krant’s Made in China, premiering in Narrative Competition at SXSW, follows “a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas” (Jackson Kuehn) who travels to Shanghai to make it big with his latest bright idea. In her answers to The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, below the jump, Krant talks about paying [...]
Zift is one of five films to screen at SXSW this year which is being promoted as a simultaneous premiere at the festival and on Video on Demand via IFC (like all of its fellows in the series except for Joe Swanberg’s Alexander the Last, it comes to Austin and your living room after an [...]
Daryl Wein’s Breaking Upwards is one of my most personally anticipated films of SXSW 2009. Wein’s follow-up to last year’s SXSW doc premiere Sex Positive, Breaking is a narrative feature starring Wein and his real-life girlfriend Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves alongside a slightly-starrier supporting cast including Olivia Thirlby. Answering The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, [...]
We have so many SXSW previews to get through in the next week leading up to the fesitival that some days, you just might get two. Today we’ll first take a look at Craig Johnson’s Narrative Competition entry True Adolescents, which is notable on paper for two reasons: it co-stars recently Oscar-nominated Melissa Leo, and [...]
Zachary Levy’s Strongman, comes to SXSW after recently having won the Grand Jury Award at the Slamdance Film Festival, but an earlier project, through which Levy partially funded the film got a bit more press. In between shooting and editing his documentary, which he calls “a real-life version of La Strada,” Levy and some friends [...]
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