Artist Spotlight: Olivier Assayas: The film's action resides in the conversations and reverberations that take place among the story’s women, mainly an aging actress and her assistant. Though the film might occasionally seem as distant as the Alps to some viewers, there is no getting around the thrills of these women’s verbal and emotional slaloms. Read a full review of Clouds of Sils Maria.
Alamo Kids' Camp: Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre. Read a full review of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Foreign Film Series: When jihadists take over new African territory, the situation goes from comic to horrific in a Timbuktu minute. Read a full review of Timbuktu.
Kids Camp: Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre. Read a full review of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
From star-studded world premieres to scrappy micro-indies, the South by Southwest Film Festival shows it all over the course of ten days, March 9-18. See our SXSW hub for reviews, interviews, photo galleries, and other event highlights.