AFF screens Death of a President tonight

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Death of a PresidentThe "TBA screening #2" on Austin Film Festival's schedule has been revealed: the controversial feature Death of a President. The BBC-produced movie uses existing news footage to create a fake documentary in which Bush is assassinated. The movie is having its first U.S. public screening right here in the capital of Texas.

You can see the movie tonight at 7 pm at the IMAX theater -- yes, the one inside the Texas State History Museum, interestingly enough. After festival badgeholders and passholders have been admitted, anyone can buy tickets for the remaining seats. I'm probably going to see Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn myself (Paramount, 7:30 pm) -- it's a tough choice.

Last night I watched Special, which so far is my favorite film of the festival. Michael Rapoport plays a mild-mannered meter maid who participates in a trial experiment for a new antidepressant, with bizarre results. The movie plays again on Wednesday night at Alamo Lake Creek, and I'd recommend it to festivalgoers. I also caught the midnight screening of Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, which I thought would be good cheesy late-night fun, but which didn't quite deliver.

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