'In Search' of a Release Date

Apple's got a fancy new trailer for In Search of a Midnight Kiss up, and I highly recommend you go check it out right-this-very-second, and then thrum your fingers anxiously until IFC Films finally announces an Austin release date. (It opens in New York and L.A. on August 1.)

In Search... is the third feature from former Austinite Alex Holdridge, and it's been getting massive buzz since it premiered at Tribeca in 2007. (It also screened at last year's Austin Film Festival, a place near and dear to Holdridge's heart as he won the Audience Award in 2001 for his first feature, Wrong Numbers).

In Search... is terrifically funny and bawdy and romantic and angsty and makes Los Angeles look like a million bucks – on a shoestring budget no less. I watched my preview screener so many times it won't play anymore.

Fun trailer facts: That's Shearwater's aching "My Good Deed" playing on the soundtrack; lead Scoot McNairy (a longtime Holdridge collaborator) looks familiar because lately you've seen him in commercials advertising Ford's remarkable gas-efficiency and insurance from the inside of a kangaroo pocket; and from the department of don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it, that's local filmmaker and Chronicle contributor Spencer Parsons snogging some girl on the street in the trailer's first frame. Nice.