AFF is underway!

It's the second night of the Austin Film Festival, and the first night I've had time to post. Yesterday I saw The TV Set and Pirate Radio USA, and tonight I watched Catch and Release. I keep running into people I know and having a great time. Even the in-house festival trailers are making me laugh.

Chris probably won't be posting much this week, since he actually works for AFF and every time I've seen him, he's been busy snapping pictures, collecting audience award ballots, or doing other important festival stuff. It's nice to know people involved with the festival because I get the latest scoop on schedule changes, and then I can pass them on to you.

For example, two movies that are premiering at AFF on Saturday had to move their time and venue: Run Robot Run will play at the Dobie at 3 pm, and Military Intelligence and You will play at the Texas Spirit theater (part of the TX History Museum) at 4:45 pm. Run Robot Run sounds like lots of fun and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Other movies I'm hoping to catch: Rescue Dawn, the latest from Werner Herzog; Special, which stars Michael Rapaport; Snoop Dogg's House of Horror, which will have actor Danny Trejo in attendance; the documentary Third Monday in October; and other stuff I'm too tired to remember right now. Attendance seems to be quite good but I am noticing a few empty seats in theaters, so it's probably easy to buy tickets at the door for any of these films.