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News from Slackerwood: fighting the February blahs
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February is such a blah month for movies. New releases are often films that people see only because nothing else good is around (Pink Panther, I am looking at you). In Austin, the SXSW film lineup just went public and it seems like forever until the fun starts in March. Still, local theaters have managed to put together some enjoyable screenings this week, including Valentine's Day (or anti-valentine) special events. In addition, both Ross McElwee and Peter Bogdanovich will be in town to show their movies and participate in Q&As, and that's not blah at all.
- This week's AFS@Dobie films, in which Austin Film Society collaborates on Dobie Theatre programming, are the feature Before the Fall, held over from last week, and the documentary Protocols of Zion. The films will play all week long at the Dobie.
- Free coffeehouse movies: Austin Java on Barton Springs is showing Fahrenheit 9/11 tonight (Friday) at 8 pm. Cafe Mundi is showing Existenz, the 1999 David Cronenberg film, on Monday 2/13 at 8 pm.
- Alamo
Downtown has started a new series, Soul Cinema, on Monday nights at 7 pm. The Monday 2/13 film is tick ... tick... tick ..., a
1970 drama about a black sheriff in a rural Southern town. The cast list alone is fascinating: ex-football player Jim
Brown, George Kennedy, Dub Taylor, Bernie Casey, and of all people, Fredric March. It's not available on DVD, and
admission is just $1.
News from Slackerwood: Superbowl to Valentines
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I searched this week for special screenings taking place at the same time as the Super Bowl, for Austinites who aren't into the football thing. There are a few alternatives: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown is screening the UT Film Loop monthly movie, The Man with Two Heads, and then the Spike & Mike animation fest that night. The Paramount has scheduled a double-feature of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Meanwhile, if your TV simply isn't large enough, the Alamo theaters at S. Lamar, Lake Creek, and Village each are dedicating a movie screen to showing the big game, with various food/drink specials and entertainment extras.
- The SXSW schedule of feature films is supposed to go public on Monday 2/6. You can view a list of world premieres on the Web site, but I'm looking forward to finding out about all the smaller films. The Austin Chronicle nabbed an advance list that contains more titles than the SXSW page. One they missed: local filmmaker Kat Candler's feature jumping off bridges.
- Austin Film Society seems to have taken over the Dobie Theatre: three AFS@Dobie films currently occupy the theater's screens this week. Darwin's Nightmare (photo above) is being held over for a third week, perhaps because it was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar; Bubble is floating around for a second week; and Before the Fall, a 2004 German film about a teen at a Nazi academy, opens this week.
News from Slackerwood: Mansons, Linklater, and Black History Month
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Let's see: a Richard Linklater double-feature, Pee-Wee Herman at midnight, a Black History Month film series, and an animated comedy about the Mansons, all in the same week. Yep. Must be Austin.
Speaking of Linklater, Filmmaker has a good interview with the director about A Scanner Darkly. It's going to be hard to wait until July.
- Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is an animated musical comedy film about the Manson—excuse me, the Hanson— family and their crime spree. Doesn't that sound charming? The voice talent includes members of Green Day, Asia Argento, Kelly Osbourne, and Jane Wiedlin (I loved you in Clue, Jane). Alamo Drafthouse Village is showing this controversial film at midnight on Friday and Saturday, 1/27-28. Austin Chronicle has an interview with director John Roecker in this week's issue.
- Lunafest, a mini-festival of eight short films by and about women, will screen at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Sunday 1/29. Suju Vijayan, who directed the short Blessing, will be in attendance.
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