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Austin Film Festival: 'My Run'

After losing a beloved spouse, it surely must be crushing to find the will to keep going, and to keep raising your family. But Minnesotan Terry Hitchcock did keep going – about 25-30 miles a day, in fact.

8:13PM Sun. Oct. 25, 2009, Lee Nichols Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: 'Houston We Have a Problem'

It can be difficult to distinguish between bullshit and wisdom when oil men are talking. That's because, as Houston We Have a Problem makes clear, they're full of both.

6:00PM Sun. Oct. 25, 2009, Cindy Widner Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: 'Happy Ending'

Happy Ending is as kawaii -- cute -- as one of Takashi Murakami's manga-derived sculptures, and like Murakami's fire engine-apple red, metal-flake paint gorgeousities, there's a bubble gum heart beating at the center of this supersaturated Charms Blo-Pop of a movie. That heart poses a very serious question, though: To love or not to love?

4:46PM Sun. Oct. 25, 2009, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Cactus Lee

Buddy's Place

Story-Oke
at The Highball

Ego’s Day Party and Fundraiser at Ego's

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Austin Film Festival: 'Tobruk'

Although the story of the brutal World War II battle of Tobruk has been told on film several times, it has never been told from quite this perspective.

2:45PM Sun. Oct. 25, 2009, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: 'Downtown Calling'

When the New York’s Daily News famously blared “Ford to City: Drop Dead” on its front page in 1975, the paper was only making things official.

11:55PM Sat. Oct. 24, 2009, Cindy Widner Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Film & Screenwriting Awards Announced

The Austin Film Festival announced its filmmaking jury awards today, which included a Special Jury Recognition for Independent Filmmaking for Thor at the Bus Stop (curiously not the "Awesomest Title Combining a Norse God With Public Transport" it had been picked to win). Winners after the jump...

10:03PM Sat. Oct. 24, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival: Awkwardness, Onscreen and Off

Austin-made comedy Harmony and Me finally got its Austin premiere last night, and it played great to the packed audience at the Texas Spirit Theater. Where it didn’t play so great? Up on the screen.

3:25PM Sat. Oct. 24, 2009, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Heading back into the nation's number five Halloween attraction

Return to the House of Torment

Last year, the House of Torment haunted house by Highland Mall was voted the nation's sixth best Halloween attraction by its industry peers: This year, it went up to number five.

1:26PM Sat. Oct. 24, 2009, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Spillar Responds on Carbon Footprint

In response to my last blog post, noting that council members failed to ask about the climate protection qualifications of finalist consultant teams for the city's new Strategic Mobility Plan, Austin Department of Transportation Director Robert Spillar e-mailed to clarify the importance of climate protection and sustainability.

7:25PM Fri. Oct. 23, 2009, Katherine Gregor Read More | Comment »

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