News from Slackerwood: SXSW alternatives
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If you're in Austin right now and you are a regular filmgoer, you are probably considering which SXSW films to see, since the festival starts tonight. Believe it or not, there are in fact a few non-SXSW events going on in Austin during the next week.
- Alamo Drafthouse at Lake Creek is showing the new indie feature Threat tonight (3/10) at midnight. Filmmakers Matt Pizzolo and Katie Nisa will introduce the film.
- Some Oscar-winning films are still playing in Austin, if you want to take the Academy's heavy-handed advice and see these movies in theaters. Capote is playing at Alamo on South Lamar, Arbor Great Hills, and Dobie. Walk the Line is still at Alamo Lake Creek. Syriana, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Good Night and Good Luck (which looks fabulous in a theater, even if it didn't win any Oscars) are playing at Barton Creek Square.
- Free coffeehouse movies: Austin Java screens House of Flying Daggers tonight (3/10) at 8 pm. Cafe Mundi is showing the 1998 documentary A Place Called Chiapas on Monday 3/13 at 8 pm. Ventana del Soul continues its Monster Monday series with Night of the Living Dead on Monday at 7:30 pm.
- Film Baby, an indie-film
online retailer, is screening shorts and features for free on Saturday 3/11 starting at 7 pm at Threadgills World
Headquarters. The features include Choppertown: The
Sinners and Cow Monkey.
- Free
pizza-place movies: Rounders Pizzeria has two movies lined up for Tuesday 3/14: Darby O'Gill and the Little People at 6 pm, and The Boondock Saints at 8 pm.
- To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Alamo Lake Creek will screen Waking Ned Devine on Friday and Saturday 3/17-18 at midnight. They promise free lottery tickets to any attendee with an Irish last name.
- Free sneak preview: The Austin Chronicle is giving away tickets to a 3/21 sneak preview of the new Spike Lee heist film Inside Man.
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3-11-2006 @ 2:54PM
Bob Jones said...
After winning the "Spirit of Independents" award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival, Emmy award winning director Robert Manciero was shocked when the film "Prescription:Suicide?" didn't make the cut at Austin's South by Southwest. Especially since the documentary features two Austin area families.
Knowing the current importance, Austinite Gwen Olsen took matters into her own hands. She organized an independent showing of the documentary on March 10, the day SXSW began. "I'm proud to present this film," said Olsen, an author and activist. "I'm not sure what the folks at SXSW were thinking. The debate over children and antidepressants may well be one of the most important debates of our time."
The turn out was in the 100's and because the film received such an enthusiastic reception from the audience, a repeat screening was announced for March 18th at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church in
Cedar Park, TX.
Bob
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