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March 23 ISSUE

It's So Hard To Say Goodbye

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

One easy web address and you never have to let go of SXSW 2012

SXSW Film 2012 Audience Awards

'Brooklyn Castle,' 'Fat Kid Rules the World' among crowd faves

SATURDAY
DAILY ISSUE

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

The Dissolution of the First Family of Football

BY MARK FAGAN

Fab Four Restored

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

Two screenings today of a newly spiffed-up 'Yellow Submarine'

Killin' It

BY MARC SAVLOV

'Black Pond'

What's Yours Is Mine

BY MARC SAVLOV

'This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse' with live musical accompaniment

'Beware of Mr. Baker'

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'Charles Bradley: Soul of America'

BY AMY SMITH

'Fat Kid Rules the World'

BY MELANIE HAUPT

'Keyhole'

BY ANDY CAMPBELL

'God Bless America'

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'Dollhouse'

BY MARC SAVLOV

'Compliance'

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'Black Pond'

BY MONICA RIESE

'Dreams of a Life'

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

'The Comedy'

BY ASHLEY MORENO

'Beast'

BY JOE O'CONNELL

Music Video Competition

BY KATE X MESSER

'Thale'

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

FRIDAY
DAILY ISSUE

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

Hurts So Good

BY MELANIE HAUPT

Mike Birbiglia mines life's embarrassments for laughs in 'Sleepwalk With Me'

From the Eyes of the Abused

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Ya'Ke Smith on his feature film debut, 'Wolf'

'Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines'

BY ROBERT FAIRES

'The Do-Deca-Pentathlon'

BY MELANIE HAUPT

'Kid-Thing'

BY ASHLEY MORENO

'Brooklyn Castle'

BY NORA ANKRUM

'Bad Brains: Band in DC'

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

'Small Apartments'

BY JAMES RENOVITCH

'V/H/S'

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

'The Source'

BY NORA ANKRUM

'Chasing Ice'

BY NORA ANKRUM

'Sunset Strip'

BY MARC SAVLOV

'Under African Skies'

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

'Funeral Kings'

BY NORA ANKRUM

'Documentary Shorts 1'

BY LEAH CHURNER

'Documentary Shorts 2'

BY LEAH CHURNER

'Modus Anomali'

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

'Crazy Eyes'

BY JAMES RENOVITCH

'Scarlet Road'

BY KATE X MESSER

'Lost and Sound'

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

THURSDAY
DAILY ISSUE

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

God Gave Rock & Roll to Her

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

Rebecca Thomas talks about faith and perspective in 'Electrick Children'

A Silent Pearl Pops With New Sound

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'The Oyster Princess' screens with a live score by Bee Vs. Moth

The Path to Enlightenment

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'He's not a really extremely nice guy': Martha Stephens on her hiking hero in 'Pilgrim Song'

'Eden'

BY MONICA RIESE

'Sun Don't Shine'

BY MARC SAVLOV

'John Dies at the End'

BY JOE O'CONNELL

'Decoding Deepak'

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

'$ellebrity'

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

'Code of the West'

BY JORDAN SMITH

'Gimme the Loot'

BY MONICA RIESE

'Starlet'

BY NORA ANKRUM

'In Our Nature'

BY MELANIE HAUPT

'The Imposter'

BY MELANIE HAUPT

'Francine'

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

'Citadel'

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

'Blue Like Jazz'

BY JOE O'CONNELL

'Jeff'

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

'Lovely Molly'

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

'Booster'

BY ASHLEY MORENO

March 16 ISSUE

Girl Walk // All Day

BY ANNE HARRIS

'Girl Walk / / All Day'

The Babymakers

BY ROBERT FAIRES

'The Babymakers'

Searching for Sugar Man

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

'Searching for Sugar Man'

The Last Fall

BY JOE O'CONNELL

'The Last Fall'

Beauty Is Embarrassing

BY ANNE HARRIS

'Beauty Is Embarrassing'

Her Master's Voice

BY ROBERT FAIRES

'Her Master's Voice'

Leave Me Like You Found Me

BY ASHLEY MORENO

'Leave Me Like You Found Me'

SXSW 2012 Film Awards

Audience and jury prizes announced

Conference Quick Cuts

SXSW Film + Interactive

March 9 ISSUE

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

Where to find the Chronicle's continuing SXSW Film coverage, plus a venue list

Best Bets for the Badgeless

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

You, too, can sample SXSW's wares

The Scare Game

BY MARC SAVLOV

Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here

Attack of the Cybermen

BY MARC SAVLOV

Activism empowered by the Internet

The Ballad of Big Star

BY LEAH CHURNER

A work-in-progress premiere and supergroup performance pay tribute to the cult band

Mama Drama

BY MELANIE HAUPT

The comedy in 21st century babymaking

Poker Face

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

The life cycle of man as deadpan farce in 'Somebody Up There Likes Me'

Joystick Joy

BY JAMES RENOVITCH

Two mediums, same ethos at play in 'Indie Game: The Movie'

Bruises Easily

BY MARC SAVLOV

'The Raid' opens a can of whupass

Aftershocks

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

Finding inspiration in the devastation of the 921 earthquake

Art as Acts of Subversion and Immersion

'The Sheik and I,' 'Trash Dance,' and 'Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters'

The Place Is the Thing

The influence of geography in a quartet of docs

Don't go Home Hungry: Festival Eats Not to be Missed

Feb. 3 ISSUE

Jump, Jive, and More

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

SXSW Film announces its feature lineup

Jan. 20 ISSUE

The Jumping-Off Point

BY MARC SAVLOV

Kat Candler continues her chronicles of youthful frenzy in 'Hellion'

Film Flam

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

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