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SXSW Film Review: In a Valley of Violence

Some tough guys just want to be left alone. Most of them, come to think of it. Let ‘em wander off into the Andalusian sunset, heavy-leaded and sagging sideways off their stallion into dust while an Ennio Morricone score bodes ill in the background.

10:45PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Spaceship

Motion pictures – with sound, no less – have been around for a while. The gears that turned pre-digital reels are long in the tooth and now freshly pixelated blood pumps relentlessly from the projecting hearts of modern creation.

9:00PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Miss Stevens

Julia Hart, the screenwriter of The Keeping Room, last year’s revisionist feminist Western thriller (for lack of any better catch-all description), switches gears entirely in her follow-up film Miss Stevens, which she co-wrote and makes a debut as a director.

8:30PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

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SXSW Film Review: My Beautiful Broken Brain

Adding to the repertoire of both the incomparable David Lynch (he is an executive producer) and Netflix’s increasingly acclaimed documentary collection, this re-cut 2014 film by Lotje Sodderland and Sophie Robinson is nothing short of remarkable.

6:30PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Panel: A Conversation With Jake Gyllenhaal

When Jake Gyllenhaal is considering taking on a role, there's one underlying question: "Would it be cool to play this part?"

6:00PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Panel: Ellen Page & Ian Daniel Keynote

“You’re the kind of people who change the world,” declared an audience member at the end of Saturday morning’s keynote. The “you” being Ellen Page and Ian Daniel: producers, creators, and stars of Viceland’s Gaycation.

5:45PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Sarah Marloff Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a funny film to encounter at a festival – a broad, crowd-pleasing PG comedy from the director of an upcoming superhero sequel (Taika Waititi, Thor: Ragnarok), starring the guy from the original Jurassic Park (Sam Neill).

5:30PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Michael Agresta Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: The Hollywood Shorties

The Hollywood Shorties were legend in Ryan Steven Green's family. One uncle was a a player on the little people basketball team. Another was their game referee. So it was natural for the filmmaker to tell their story, and a compelling one it is.

5:00PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Joe O'Connell Read More | Comment »

SXSW Film Review: Beware the Slenderman

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare but it’s also every iPad adolescent’s escape from the mundane, frustrating world around them. Irene Taylor Brodsky’s documentary on the so-called “Slenderman stabbing” leaves no stone unturned and, at nearly two hours long, very little to the imagination.

12:30PM Sat. Mar. 12, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

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