RED, WHITE, AND BRAVO!
Bravo has decided to celebrate the presidential inauguration by serving up a day of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin's award-winning, progressive-leaning drama that aired from 1999 to 2006. Given the spirit of the present, the series' tagline, "The right place. The right time. The right man," seems downright poetic. The West Wing marathon is Tuesday, Jan. 20 from 9am. to 5pm. Check local listings.

Music
United States Marine Band and the San Francisco Boys and San Francisco Girls Chorus

Call to Order, Welcoming Remarks
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein

Invocation
Dr. Rick Warren, Saddleback Church

Music
Aretha Franklin

Oath of Office
Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Music
Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero, and Anthony McGill, performing a piece composed and arranged by John Williams

Oath of Office
President-elect Barack H. Obama

Inaugural Address
President Barack H. Obama

Poem
Elizabeth Alexander

Benediction
The Reverand Dr. Joseph Lowery

National Anthem
The United States Navy Band

Toasts across the nation. Let the celebration begin.

January has very little to recommend it – it heralds the season of dogs at the moviehouse (literally and figuratively) – but at least from SXSW Film we get the beginning of what I like to call The Long Tease, a deliciously slow reveal of all the goodies it’ll be showing come March. SXSW kicked it off today with an announcement tantamount to an, ahem, soupçon of skin (no more strip metaphors, I swear). First off, there’s Centerpiece comedy Observe and Report, which stars Seth Rogen as a mall security cop embroiled in a turf war with the (real) boys in blue. It was written and directed by Jody Hill, whose underground hit The Foot Fist Way was enthusiastically proclaimed to be the funniest fucking film ever made by no less than Will Ferrell. Also announced are a slew of panelists, including Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke (who’ll be inducted into this year's Texas Film Hall of Fame), Austin elder statesmen Mike Judge and Robert Rodriguez, SXSW wunderkind Joe Swanberg, and – how cool is this? – trailer-maker Mark Woollen (whose work on Milk electrified me in a way, frustratingly, the film itself never did). Wait, there’s more! SXSW, which has built a reputation as a premiere showcase for top-notch docs, has also leaked the names of a number of documentaries playing this year, including one about homegrown rabble-rouser Alex Jones (New World Order) and a new film from Gary Hustwit, who made the weirdly addictive Helvetica. (Who knew font was so hot?) Press release after the jump…

Frontline examines the personal and political life of Barack Obama, outlining his road to the White House, in Dreams of Obama. The episode airs on PBS, inauguration night, Jan. 20 at 8pm and 10pm, with additional screenings through Jan. 23. Check local listings. Can't wait? Dreams of Obama is available for online viewing now. Click here to view. Austin filmmaker Paul Stekler is among the episode’s producers.

Nobody paid much notice when ten years ago, Mike Judge's locally made Office Space opened and closed in theatres in the blink of an eye. A lot came happen in ten years, though, and the cult hit that won't quit is now getting a fancy Blu-Ray release on Feb. 3 and – can we get an "O" face? – a big anniversary/reunion screening at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 8, as presented by SXSW and Fantastic Fest. Judge will most definitely be in attendance, as will select – and as yet undisclosed – members of the cast. (Ron Livingston: You can Post-It note us any day of the week.)

Tickets go on sale at noon this Thursday, Jan. 15, but for 2009 SXSW and Fantastic Fest badgeholders only. The general public will have a shot at 'em starting at noon on Saturday, Jan. 17 at the Paramount box office or online at gettix.net. There are also a limited number of VIP tickets available. For more info, check out sxsw.com or fantasticfest.com.

Actually, make that the other screen. It's not the cable news network, but its online cousin that is teaming with Facebook, the popular social networking site, to glean FB users' reactions to the event (via status reports) and offer them in real time on CNN.com during the actual inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, according to a MediaWeek.com report. Since the inauguration is happening during the workweek, the enormous interest in the event is likely to keep a lot of workers distracted from their normal activities as they try to follow the historic event online and through other media sources. CNN.com wants to capitalize on this activity by luring Facebook users and driving viewers to their site in the process. CNN.com will stream the event live, including a "mini-Facebook" window in the corner of their site. Facebook users can update their status, remark on what they're seeing, and have their status reports show up on CNN.com. It would be even cooler if CNN would show the Facebook status updates on their cable network. But who knows? Speaking it is the first step in making something come to life.

The HBO folks have pumped up the name of their inaugural special. It's now called: WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA: INAUGURAL CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL It airs Sunday, Jan. 18 at 6pm on HBO. Unlike years past, several other cable networks are bringing their cameras to the inauguration: Nickelodean is bringing cub reporters to the scene as is MTV and other typically entertainment-centric sights. Online, CBS will steam the actual inauguration live with Katie Couric and the CBS team on hand to offer comments and whatnot during the event. Let's hope they keep the chatter down to a minimum. There's nothing worse than someone telling you everything you're seeing, when you're looking right at it.

Okay, yeah, I know it's been a week since part one of my Top Ten Redux, but I've been gnawing on a mouthful of new DVD releases and wondering if they merit inclusion here. They don't, although one not-so-new DVD box set does: Sony's Ray Harryhausen Collection. It Came From Beneath the Sea, Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, and 20 Million Miles to Earth, all three in glorious black and white or – ick – inglorious colorized versions. Plus, 20 million extras, the best of which are new commentaries from Harryhausen, effects artists/filmmakers Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, and others (including, wouldn't you know it, Tim Burton. Nice piece on Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers' blacklisted screenwriter Bernard Gordon. Saucers = commies, see? Very scary, in a Red Menace kinda way. For my money, it's altogether the best box set of late '08. And the marketing genii at Sony even saw fit to make this nifty/cheesy flash animation game to promote it. Gee whiz, guys, that's just swell. Back on-screen (if not yet in Austin) and without further ado, here's the part two of my Top Ten Redux.

As the big day draws near, more information about programming on or around the big day comes forth. Here are some more updates: FoxNews and MSNBC will stream the Obama Inauguration live on their websites, while CNN.com will use three streams to accommodate their tag teaming with FaceBook to gather and share viewer impressions, in real time, during the inauguration. Some where in the flurry, I read that ABC.com is supposed to post Inaugural speeches from years past (yawn), but a quick tour around their site didn’t find any promises of that happening anytime soon. But who knows—that could change by the time you read this.