Slackery News Tidbits: DVD Gossip, a New Fest and Shaky Seats
By Jette Kernion on May 18, 2009 - 12:00pm
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Check out the latest movie news from Austin and Central Texas:
- Kelly Williams at Austin Film Festival has written a lovely remembrance of Bud Shrake that also contains an exciting piece of news: Before he died, Shrake had recorded a commentary track for an upcoming DVD release of Kid Blue. You know we'll keep you posted when more info becomes available.
- More on Shrake: the Austin Chronicle has republished Louis Black's excellent interview from 1985 with the Texas author and screenwriter.
- Galaxy Highland is installing "motion-enhanced seats" -- about 20 in one theater -- in time for Terminator Salvation to open this weekend. Austin Movie Blog tells us that tickets for these seats will cost about $8 more. My first thought was that such seating will make it even harder to get through a long movie without a bathroom break; a colleague of mine noted that vibrating seats might be more appropriate to certain other genres of film.
- Austin Movie Blog also reports that New Braunfels is the home of a new film festival. The Texandance International Film Festival will take place from June 5-7. The lineup includes the documentary Crawford; Texas-shot short Assault of the Evil Meteor; a foosball comedy from Pasadena called The Fabb Four; Wreckless Epic, a mockumentary about SXSW bands; and Palo Pinto Gold, which features a number of musicians in the cast including Robert Earl Keen, Kevin Fowler, Roy Clark, and Mel Tillis. And Kinky Friedman, but do we think of him as a musician these days, or a politician?
- Austin-based distribution/film-fest technology company B-Side is partnering with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation on an initiative to restore and preserve older movies from around the world.
- Love the Regal Metropolitan Star Trek window art, which our friends at Austin Metblogs immortalized on film. It's Trektacular! (Aside to Metblogs: the only "Poliakoff" I know is a character in Some Like It Hot. "Mr. Poliakoff? I heard you're looking for a couple of girl musicians.")