News from Slackerwood: Recuperation Week
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Nearly everyone in Austin is recuperating from one aspect of SXSW or another, or from Spring Break. The hardcore film-festival survivors may not want to see another movie for at least a week, but everyone else might enjoy a nice relaxing movie in a theater or coffeehouse.
- Free movies: Monkeywrench Books is showing one of my all-time favorites, Breaking Away, on Sunday 3/19 at 2 pm. Cafe Mundi is showing Murderball on Monday 3/20 at 8 pm. Ventana del Soul will screen Godzilla vs. Mothra on Monday at 7:30 pm. Rounders Pizzeria is showing two baseball movies on Tuesday
3/21: The Sandlot at 6:30 pm and Bull
Durham at 8 pm.
- After a sold-out screening a few weeks ago, Alamo is bringing Dildo Diaries back for a limited run. The South Lamar theater will show the documentary about Texas sex-toy laws nightly from Monday through Thursday, 3/20-23. I saw the movie earlier and while it didn't tell me much I didn't already know, I got a kick out of the scenes inside a toymaking factory. Also, the songs Annie Sprinkle sings over the closing credits are delightful.
- This month's Austin Film Society 20th anniversary screening will be the 1983 French film Sans Soleil, on Wednesday 3/22 at Alamo Downtown. The film is described as a cross between a documentary and a science-fiction film. Every review I've read of this movie is different, so I'm very tempted to see it, especially since it's not on DVD in the U.S.
- Austin Film Society also has teamed up with UT's Center for Middle Eastern Studies to present a free series of Iranian documentaries. "A Celebration of Iranian Documentary Films" begins on Wednesday 3/22 with two short films, Noah's Ark and Conversations in the Mist, shown at UT in CMA 3.116.
- If you missed Hellbent (photo above) during aGLIFF last year, the festival is bringing the "gay slasher film" back for a one-night encore screening on Thursday 3/23 at Alamo Downtown.
- A few months ago, I wrote about local teenage filmmakers
shooting a zombie film, Pathogen.
Director Emily Hagins wrote the script when she was 11 years old (two years ago), and received a Texas Filmmakers
Production Fund grant to complete the film. Pathogen will premiere on Saturday
3/25 at Alamo Downtown. The film stars Tiger Darrow, who was excellent as the young girl in The Cassidy Kids, which premiered at SXSW.
- Finally, Alamo South Lamar is showing the perfect double-feature on Monday 3/27: Sullivan's Travels and O Brother, Where Art Thou? My only complaint is that they should show Sullivan's Travels first (since that's where the other movie's title came from). The theater is also hosting a movie-and-dinner night with O Brother, Where Art Thou? on Tuesday 3/28, with a Southern-themed menu that includes gopher grits and frog jambalaya. I'm mentioning these screenings ahead of time because the movie feasts tend to sell out ... although this time I wonder who's brave enough to try frog jambalaya.
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