Slackery News Tidbits, November 29
By Jette Kernion on November 29, 2010 - 12:00pm
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If you've been too busy thinking about turkey and football to pay attention to Austin film news, here's a roundup:
- The Austin American-Statesman reports that before Texas Film Commission head Bob Hudgins turned in his resignation earlier this month, he had been disciplined for sexual harassment. Hudgins cannot speak on these matters until he officially leaves his job Nov. 30. So keep an eye out later this week for potential comments from him on the situation.
- Over at the Dallas Morning News, Joe O'Connell enjoys a set visit on the latest film written by Kim Henkel, Boneboys, which has been filming around Austin. Directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks previously brought us The Wild Man of the Navidad. O'Connell also posted some photos from the Boneboys production to his blog. (My neighbor has a role in the film. I think I saw a set photo of him in drag.)
- Alamo Drafthouse staffer Caitlin Stevens has posted a really cool behind-the-scenes look at an Alamo feast: the Harry Potter feast, to be precise, which I'm now sorry I missed. There's also a video interview with the new Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar executive chef, Chris Kincaid.
- Marjorie Baumgarten gives a brief update for the Austin Chronicle on the Violet Crown Cinemas downtown, which have started construction. If you are interested in this project -- and you should be -- keep an eye on the Violet Crown Cinema Facebook page, where they are continually posting photos and even some video of what's going on in there. What we really want to know is whether the cinema will be involved in SXSW Film next year in some way -- or are they too small to be viable festival venues?
- Finally, in case you missed this earlier, many of the late writer/performer Spalding Gray's papers have been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. The HRC gives us a tantalizing taste of the archival materials with a peek into Gray's notebook from Swimming to Cambodia. I hope they'll do an exhibition soon and kick it off with a screening of not only Swimming to Cambodia but Steven Soderbergh's excellent documentary about Gray, And Everything Is Going Fine.