On the heels of Monsters‘ creepy-crawling into multiplexes last week, two more alums of the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival are touching down in Austin theatres: Jeff Malmberg’s terrific (and Jury Award-winning) documentary feature Marwencol (pictured), about a head-trauma survivor who built a World War II-themed miniature city and peopled it with posable dolls, and Kerthy Fix’s intimate documentary portrait Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields. And while we’re on the subject of standout SXSW films, Bryan Poyser’s scabrous comedy Lovers of Hate will premiere on the Sundance Channel on Nov. 9. The Chronicle spoke with all three filmmakers back in March; you can check out the features in our archive at austinchronicle.com/screens. See Film Listings for showtimes.

This article appears in November 5 • 2010.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...