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SXSW 2013: The Latest Lineup (and Venue!) News
Whatever number of Austin films I might have guessed would be in the SXSW Film Festival feature lineup released this afternoon, I would have been short. Texas is everywhere in this year's festival, and...
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Sundance Review: Pit Stop
Director Yen Tan made his first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival this year with the drama Pit Stop, cowritten by Dallas filmmaker David Lowery. Inspired by stops along the Texas highways while...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: All the Features (Part One)
The feature-film selections for the 2013 SXSW Film Festival were announced last week and boy, are there a lot of movies with Austin connections on the program -- so many that we had to split this...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: All the Features (Part Two)
Continued from earlier today, here are the rest of the SXSW 2013 films with Austin or Texas ties: documentaries and films that have already been hits at other festivals.Documentary Spotlight:An Unreal...
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TIFN Roadshow: 'When I Rise'
In 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, but segregationists in the Texas Legislature deemed it legal to threaten to withhold state funding from a...
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Celebrate 20 Years of 'Dazed and Confused'
Reunite with Simone, Tony, Cynthia, Jodi, Mitch, Benny, Darla, Sabrina, Cynthia and Tommy for a beer-buzzed existential walk down memory lane. Select Dazed and Confused cast members and writer/director...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Bryan Poyser, 'The Bounceback'
Bryan Poyser isn't exactly a new face on the Austin film scene, but we realized that we hadn't yet interviewed him on this site (although he has been mentioned in a Holiday Favorites post)! Thankfully...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Sean Gallagher, 'Good Night'
Sean Gallagher's full-length feature directing debut, Good Night, is premiering at SXSW on Monday, March 11 at the Rollins Theatre (screening info). This intimate drama depicts a dinner party in which...
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'The XXXX Saga' Production Diary: Day Zero
Austin filmmaker James Christopher is directing Twitchy Dolphin Flix's new mockumentary-style features The XXXX Saga: Rise of the Beaver Slayer and The Porn Movie Massacre (no, they're not pornos)....
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AFS Announces SXSW 2013 ShortCase Winners
This year's SXSW Community Screening: Austin Film Society ShortCase will be held Sunday, March 10 at 4 pm in Boyd Vance Theater at the Carver Museum, and will feature short films by Central Texas...
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'The XXXX Saga' Production Diary: Week One
Austin filmmaker James Christopher is directing Twitchy Dolphin Flix's new mockumentary-style features The XXXX Saga: Rise of the Beaver Slayer and The Porn Movie Massacre (no, they're not pornos)....
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Trieste Kelly Dunn 'Loves Her Gun'
The latest film from Austin director Geoff Marslett, Loves Her Gun, has its world premiere at SXSW, screening tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:30 pm at Violet Crown (screening info). Actress Trieste Kelly...
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SXSW 2013 Preview: Selected Shorts
Don't forget the shorts programs at SXSW this year. There are a number of great shorts at the fest. Some are from filmmakers you haven't heard of yet -- some feature well-known faces. We were able to...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Sam Eidson, 'Zero Charisma' (and More)
Sam Eidson is a comedic savant who moved to Austin after attending Savannah College of Art & Design. In addition to a hilarious appearance in Emily Hagins' 2011 feature film My Sucky Teen Romance,...
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SXSW Review: Rewind This!
This year's SXSW Film Festival includes many movies with Austin connections, but perhaps none that can be considered so completely Austintacious as director Josh Johnson's labor of love, Rewind This!...
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SXSW Review: Before You Know It
You never think about getting older when you're younger. But before you know it creeps up on you, and you're there already.-- Robert Mainor, Before You Know ItOld age can be hard enough for anyone...
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SXSW Review: Prince Avalanche
Seeing Bastrop State Park after the 2011 wildfires inspired director David Gordon Green to make a movie there, and he already had a title given to him in a dream: Prince Avalanche. A friend...
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SXSW Review: Loves Her Gun
Yeah, she loves her gun all right.Well, not really the gun itself. What the protagonist of Loves Her Gun really loves is the feeling of security and power a gun gives her. She sleeps better at night...
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Austin at SXSW 2013: Owen Egerton's 'Follow'
Renaissance man Owen Egerton is on fire.... metaphorically speaking, of course. But the redhead's career has been making sparks in national literary, film and comedy circles recently.Next month, the...
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SXSW Review: The Bounceback
The Bounceback could have been just another clichéd romantic comedy about angst-filled twentysomethings looking for love. (Okay, let's be honest: they're looking for sex.) But thanks to Austin...
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