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SXSW Film: Ryan Gosling and Guillermo Del Toro Recap

”The hardest thing to achieve in a movie is tone,” said fantastic film imagineer Guillermo Del Toro to some first-time feature filmmaker by the name of Gosling. (Irony: not dead yet.) “And I think [your] movie is tonally, completely of a piece.”

10:50PM Sat. Mar. 14, 2015, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Excess Flesh

Filmmaker and multidisciplinary provocateur Patrick Kennelly aims his righteously surreal ire at a thoroughly broken social system that elevates a borderline cadaverous feminine form above the more curvy and natural norm.

9:22PM Sat. Mar. 14, 2015, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Uncle Kent 2

Why would anyone make a sequel to Uncle Kent? Centered around real-life cartoonist Kent Osborne, Joe Swanberg's 2011 lo-fi meditation on love, loneliness, and chatrooms was perfectly self-contained.

9:00PM Sat. Mar. 14, 2015, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

KUTX & Mueller Rock the Park w/ Geto Gala, Lucas Miller

Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater

Selena Birthday Week Celebration at French Legation Museum

Keira Nova, She23, Ayo Tamz, Maurvice, Envy N, Caleb Lemons at Flamingo Cantina

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

SXSW Film Review: Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents

For four decades, the Residents have been creeping around the edges of American pop music, quietly releasing more than 60 albums and repeatedly redefining what it means to be a band.

3:29PM Sat. Mar. 14, 2015, Josh Rosenblatt Read More | Comment »

Tug Life

A frothy wake churns behind the stern of the M/V Mary Parker towboat, pushing a float of barges downriver. It’s “6,000 hp on your ass, man, it’s great!” exclaims the captain, waxing about what drives life along the Lower Mississippi.

9:00AM Sat. Mar. 14, 2015, Kate X Messer Read More | Comment »

Drafthouse Announces New Location at Mueller

We’ve gotten used to the fact that every month seems to bring an announcement of a new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema location somewhere in the county. But a new Austin location? It’s been a while. And in central Austin? In the new Mueller town center? Today's announcement of a 2016 opening date can’t come soon enough.

12:45PM Mon. Mar. 9, 2015, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

From the Vaults: Albert Maysles

The pioneering documentarian Albert Maysles died this week at the age of 88. With his brother David, he was the director of such films as Grey Gardens and Gimme Shelter, and many other classics of American cinéma verité.

4:40PM Sat. Mar. 7, 2015, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Cine Las Americas Revving Up

Austin wouldn't be Austin without the steady festival deluge. As we over here in the film department are girding for SXSW to begin next week, next month's big festival, Cine Las Americas, has announced the opening-night film for its 18th annual event, April 22-26.

5:25PM Fri. Mar. 6, 2015, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Pro Tips

Let’s start with some math: SXSW throws more than 150 feature films at you over 10 days’ time. You’re never gonna get to them all. Now take a breath and start strategizing.

9:00AM Wed. Mar. 4, 2015, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

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