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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film Review: “Miss Sharon Jones!”
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The career of soul singer Sharon Jones has been unconventional in just about every way. Once famously told by a Sony executive that she was “too old, too fat, too short and too black to make it,” the former wedding singer and corrections officer has had a long road to success. After four well-...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Film 2016: ‘Sidemen: Long Road To Glory’
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‘Sidemen’ features the incredible photography of over 15 shooters that captured these legendary bluesmen over the course of their long careers. These three images of Pinetop, Willie and Hubert capture the film’s essence. | Credit: Photos by: Jerome Brunet and Sandro Miller Pinetop Perkins, Hubert...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>Ghostland</i>
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Members of an African tribe travel to the West
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movie Review: Fantastic Lies
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Near the end of Fantastic Lies, a newspaper columnist in North Carolina reads on camera a piece she published apologizing to the Duke lacrosse team for her rush to judgment in their 2006 rape case. As it turned out, she was among many in the Durham, N.C. community — and much further — who made the same knee-jerk ...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>Cameraperson</i>
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Doc cinematographer reflects on work and reality
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movies: Richard Linklater and cast of ‘Everybody Wants Some’ celebrate premiere
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By Jane Kellogg Murray Austin’s own Richard Linklater kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival Friday night for the global premiere of Everybody Wants Some — billed as the “spiritual sequel” to the director’s breakout hit, Dazed and Confused. Set in 1980, the film follows incoming freshman Jake (Blake Jenner)...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movie Review: “Richard Linklater – dream is destiny”
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Richard Linklater and Louis Black in ‘Richard Linklater – Dream is Destiny.’ Louis Black and Karen Bernstein’s “Richard Linklater — dream is destiny” is the documentary on Linklater that Linklater nerds have been waiting for. From the man’s earliest work (the little-seen “It’s Impossible to...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Review: <i>The Space in Between: Marina Abramovic and Brazil</i>
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Performance artist explores South America
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movie Review: “We Are X”
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X Japan, the subject of this eye-popping, extremely enjoyable documentary, are the most important band Japan ever produced, one of the most popular bands on the planet … and if you live in the West, it is entirely possible you have no idea who they are. From 1982 to 1997, when they disbanded, X Japan were (and remain...
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Austin Movie Blog
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SXSW Movie Review: “Silicon Cowboys”
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“Silicon Cowboys” So you know how the AMC show “Halt and Catch Fire” is about the computer industry in Texas in the early 1980s? Well, Jason Cohen’s “Silicon Cowboys” is the true story of Compaq Computers, the outfit “Halt” is based on. It’s the early 1980s in Houston. After checking out the sheer...
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Austin Film Festival
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Top 5 Things to Check for Before You Submit Your Screenplay
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with step-by-step instructions! 1) Include a title page with your screenplay! ... Read More
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Austin Chronicle
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Rodriguez Brings Back Frazetta Gallery
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Show highlighting legendary fantasy artist returns to Austin
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Austin Movie Blog
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Famed photographer Rose Hartman is introduced to Austin
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Rose Hartman, the fashion and celebrity photographer who captured some of the most iconic moments of the famed New York club Studio 54 in the late 1970s, dropped by the American-Statesman offices this morning to talk about the new documentary, “The Incomparable Rose Hartman.” Rose Hartman Jerry Hall...
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Austin Chronicle
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<i>Trapped</i> and the War on Women's Health Care
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Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South
