SXSW FILM
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It’s five weeks until SXSW season, which kicks off with SXSW Film presenting Peter Bogdanovich and his new film. If that weren’t enough, the Texas Film Hall of Fame will feature Sissy Spacek inducting Terrence Malick, along with presenters and inductees Marcia Gay Harden, Cyd Charisse, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Dan Rather, Bill Broyles, Bill Wittliff, Jack Valenti, Cheech Marin, and Dennis Hopper.
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This PBS-backed documentary, directed by Hector Galán, succeeds as both a Tejano cultural history and a heartfelt love ballad to the most maligned of instruments.
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Stephen Ives tells the touching story of Tony and Sally Amato, the couple who founded a small New York company in 1948 and have been giving young singers a place to perform in full productions of classic operas for half a century.
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This documentary recounts numerous distressing human stories — oppression of immigrants by a country of immigrants — and a few small but important victories
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One of the central conceits of A House on a Hill is that the building is not as important as the work put into it, and that idea seems to have bled into the film itself.
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Two years after graduation, a gang of high school buddies reunites for an evening of air hockey and reverse peristalsis.
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University of Texas MFA students Maggie Carey and Elena Carr discover it’s not all fluffers and hedgehogs in the real world of down-and-dirty indie porn.