sxsw 2009 Tagged Articles at Cinematical
New 'Grace' Trailer -- Red Band Baby!
Filed under: Horror », SXSW », Sundance », Movie Marketing », Trailers and Clips »
I'll keep this short: There's a horror flick coming out later this year called Grace. Lots of people (including me and Eric Snider) like it a lot, such as former Cinematical scribe (and mother of five) Kim Voynar, who went to the Sundance screening after I basically commanded her to. When I saw her later she was both grateful (for recommending it) and angry (for not seeing it with her). Then it hit Austin and earned even more fans -- and not just horror geeks, mind you, although they're the ones who seemed to dig it the most.
The flick is still shuffling through the festival circuit, but Anchor Bay will deliver the DVD before year's end, and it looks like my pals over at FEARnet have scored the first look at the "red-band" (R rated) trailer for Grace. Click right here to take a look at the rather impressive new promo clip, and then come back for some friendly advice. (Pause.) OK, back? Good: This movie is not suitable for pregnant women. Frankly you should spend three years in jail if you show Grace to a pregnant woman. Ten years if you make it a double feature with Inside.
SXSW Winner 'In A Dream' Gets a Trailer and Theatrical Dates
Filed under: Documentary », Drama », Independent », SXSW », Movie Marketing », Trailers and Clips »
If you've been to Philadelphia you've probably seen the mosiacs and murals of artist Isaiah Zagar. (Or your hometown may have a few ripoffs -- mine does!) He's now the subject of a documentary titled In a Dream, which also happens to be the directorial debut of his son, Jeremiah Zagar. The documentary chronicles Isaiah's work as the artist suffers a personal breakdown, and the implosion of his marriage and family life. From the trailer, it looks like something we can all relate to, yet feels a bit alien at the same time -- the Zagars clearly experience life and emotion on an almost operatic level.
Scott Weinberg (and Philly native) saw it at SXSW premiere, where it won the Emerging Visions Audience Award. While press releases call it "harrowing", Scott thought it was "a portrait of a sweet but slightly fractured man, it's one of the most unexpectedly touching documentaries I've ever seen." It's now getting a theatrical release in New York, Philadelphia, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles, with more cities and dates to be announced. Check out the documentary's official website and blog to find out when and where it'll be playing. As you wait for it appear in your city, you can view the trailer below:
Scott Weinberg (and Philly native) saw it at SXSW premiere, where it won the Emerging Visions Audience Award. While press releases call it "harrowing", Scott thought it was "a portrait of a sweet but slightly fractured man, it's one of the most unexpectedly touching documentaries I've ever seen." It's now getting a theatrical release in New York, Philadelphia, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles, with more cities and dates to be announced. Check out the documentary's official website and blog to find out when and where it'll be playing. As you wait for it appear in your city, you can view the trailer below:
Live from SXSW: Tobe Hooper's First Film
Filed under: Independent », SXSW », Festival Reports »
While many SXSW Film Festival attendees were at the Paramount last night watching The Hurt Locker, I decided to try a more Austin-ish event at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. Tobe Hooper's first feature was screening -- no, not The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but earlier than that. Eggshells was shot in Austin in 1968 and had a limited release the following year. And that's pretty much the last anyone saw of it on a big screen until now -- even Hooper, who was at last night's screening. Hooper says he had a DVD made from a VHS copy, but for the rest of us, Eggshells has been a "lost" film.
The film focuses on a big rambling house full of college-age people who hang out, throw parties, get married ... and discuss the "ghost" in the house, an odd energy field that lives in the basement. But as Hooper told us before the film started, this isn't a horror film. It's very much a film of the late 1960s, with some eye-popping psychedelic sequences -- the sex scene is especially groovy -- and characters acting symbolically rather than realistically. I especially liked seeing the shots of Austin, mostly The University of Texas, at the beginning and end of the film, and would love to watch this movie on DVD with freeze-frame to get a closer look at my town 40 years ago.
Holy Crap! Gary Oldman Flips Out on Cinematical
Filed under: Independent », New Releases », SXSW », Noir », Mystery & Suspense », Celebrities and Controversy », Celebrities Gone Wild! », Trailers and Clips »
OK, I gotta keep this short because I'm crazy busy with SXSW madness, but you won't believe this. A few days ago we published a review of an indie noir film called The Perfect Sleep, and it seems that none other than GARY OLDMAN has taken exception with this review. Seriously, check this video ...
SXSW Rounds Out Line-Up; Blogger Wets Pants
Filed under: Comedy », Drama », Horror », Independent », Music & Musicals », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Thrillers », SXSW », Mystery & Suspense », Shorts », RumorMonger »
As it turns out, I lied to all of you last week when I said that next month's SXSW Film Festival had announced its full line-up -- and I couldn't have been happier. It looks like those awesome Austin-ites are bringing summer in March, specifically 500 Days of Summer, the one apparently adorable title I particularly pined for as a non-Sundance-ite.But wait! There's more! In addition to six picks from the Fantastic Fest crew that have yet to be announced (and are as eagerly awaited by yours truly as anything else), SXSW is bringing Broken Lizard's latest (The Slammin' Salmon), an Iron Maiden tour doc (Flight 666), Jason Eisener's already acclaimed horror-comedy short (Treevenge), and a handful of other features and shorts programs.
Between all of that and all of this, I can honestly say that I'm the most psyched for this fest than I have been in the past three years (nothing personal, Matt!), and again, you can be sure to hear plenty more from our lot in just a couple of weeks.
Cine Staff Defends SXSW Against Stupid Complaints
Filed under: SXSW », Fandom », Cinematical Indie »
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I've started to notice some whining about SXSW on certain blogs (and amazingly ignorant Twitter feeds from folks who should just be grateful for the damn press badge), and it just boggles my mind. Here we have a film festival that strives to remedy just about everything that 'veterans' dislike about Sundance and Toronto ... and still people find a way to weep about A) the fact that press and ticket-buyers have to (gasp) share the same auditorium, B) the fact that "the movies mostly suck," and C) the press office is "a joke."Now, maybe it's just because SXSW was the first film festival to truly WELCOME the online community, but as a five-year veteran of the event, I just had to address Mr. Anonymous' statements.
A. Wow. Elitism rules. I hope I never get so jaded about my job that I show such casual disdain for the "non-press" riff-raff. YOU'RE ALL THERE TO WATCH THE SAME MOVIE! But my colleagues address this gripe quite well (after the jump), and so I'll just move on to...
B. "The movies mostly suck" and / or "SXSW takes too many films from Sundance." OK, the second one is easy: Sundance is a great festival with a top-notch programming team. SXSW takes place only seven weeks after Sundance. DO THE MATH! And to address complaint number one, well, I was (seriously) going to post a list of 75 good / great films that I've seen at SXSW over the past five years, but that seemed like too much work for such a specious criticism. "The movies mostly suck" tells me all I need to know about the person who supplied those words. (But if you'd LIKE to see the last five years of SXSW film programming, no problem: Click here, here, here, here, and here.)
Full 2009 SXSW Line-Up Announced
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Documentary », Drama », Horror », Independent », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Thrillers », SXSW », Mystery & Suspense », Magnolia », Sony Classics », Warner Brothers », Dreamworks »
SXSW jumped their own gun last night by announcing their line-up of film titles for this year's festival in Austin, TX.Right around the ides of March, we'll be treated to the world premieres of:
- Best Worst Movie (all about the cult surrounding Troll 2 and supposedly containing an appearance by none other than our own Scott Weinberg),
- South By staple Joe Swanberg's latest, Alexander the Last,
- Gerald Perry's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (Scott's in this too? WTF?!),
- John Hamburg's bromantic comedy I Love You, Man,
- Gary Hustwit's new doc, Objectified (go queue up Helvetica already!),
- Jody Hill's Observe and Report (because we can't all love Paul Blart: Mall Cop),
SXSW '09 runs from March 13-21, and you can expect plenty of coverage around these parts.
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