Slackery News Tidbits for 11/11
By Jenn Brown on November 11, 2009 - 7:00pm
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So much news this week, we had to post two rounds of Slackery News.
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Fantastic Fest fave A Town Called Panic, is not only opening at the Alamo in January, but is among the 20 Animated Features Line Up for 2009 Oscar® Race. The absurd tale of Horse and his roomates Cowboy and Indian is delightfully and refreshingly funny. Now I need some Nutella on toast.
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David Lowery’s narrative feature St. Nick will be the only American film in the main competition when it make its international premiere at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival as well as the Lone Star Film Festival. The film received a 2007 TFPF grant for production and participated in AFS’s Narratives-in-Progress program last year and premiered at SXSW 2009.
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Other fims with Austin Film Society connections will be playing at at the 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival, including Andrew Bujalski’s Austin-shot Beeswax (in the "Young Americans" sidebar), and So Yong Kim's Treelesss Mountain (Kim was a TFPS panelist in 2009). More information at the AFS Persistence of Vision blog.
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The Alamo Lake Creek is the latest Austin cinema to go digital. They are adding two Barco DP-2000 projectors equipped with Dolby Digital 3D, based on the Texas Instrument's DLP Cinema 1.2 and 0.98 inch chips. On top of that, they won't be using plastic disposable glasses for 3D, but will provide free use of quality sterilized 3D glasses.
- SXSW selection Splinterheads opens in Austin on Friday, up at the Arbor. We confirmed that director Brant Sersen and possibly Thomas Middleditch will be in town for the opening (exact screenings not confirmed). Sersen also directed SXSW 2004 Audience Award winnder Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story.
Update: Sersen will be at the 7:30 pm screening on Friday 11/13, and the 12:20 pm screening on Saturday 11/14. No confirmation yet on Middleditch. -
According to Gawker's Defamer column, the Austin Chronicle's Marc Savlov is "the meanest critic in America" and that he "gives low scores but deviates regularly." Thanks to John Merriman for pointing that out to us on Twitter. Jette notes that she is actually kind of envious.
If you have film news related to Austin, please let us know.