Special Screening

Local filmmaker Jen White presents her feature film Between Floors -- this is actually the second screening scheduled within a week, after the first one sold out. The movie has played several film festivals, but none in Austin yet. White will hold a Q&A after the screening.

Here's the official description of the film: "BETWEEN FLOORS examines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens, intercutting between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways."

Trust Us, This is All Made Up is a documentary by now-Austinite Alex Karpovsky. The film premiered at SXSW 2009. It begins as a profile of two improv actors,T.J. Jagodowksi and David Pasquesi , who perform together in an unusual way. They present the equivalent of a one-act play onstage together, starring themselves ... which is different every single performance. The profile then segues into an actual performance by the duo, which is fascinating and a far cry from the quick improv comedy often seen on TV.

Karpovsky will attend the screening and will hold a Q&A afterward.

Trust Us, This is All Made Up is a documentary by now-Austinite Alex Karpovsky. The film premiered at SXSW 2009. It begins as a profile of two improv actors, T.J. Jagodowksi and David Pasquesi, who perform together in an unusual way. They present the equivalent of a one-act play onstage together, starring themselves ... which is different every single performance. The profile then segues into an actual performance by the duo, which is fascinating and a far cry from the quick improv comedy often seen on TV.

Karpovsky will attend the screening and will hold a Q&A afterward.

Austin Film Meet is hosting an evening of short films from local filmmaker Jack Daniel Stanley. Stanley's latest film, the Austin-shot short Depth of Phil, is having its world premiere at SXSW this year. Get there at 6:30 pm for free "twisted cocktails" and stay for the screening and Q&A starting at 8 pm. The event will also include live music from Roger Sellers, who composed music for Depth of Phil.

Stanley's website says that the shorts being shown will include Cold Calls, A Little Mouth to Feed (which played Austin Film Festival 2009), Unawakening, and Rekindled, plus "a select older short or two and maybe a peek at something entirely new (no promises on that last one, though)."

Local band The Invincible Czars will present their live score to Tod Browning's (Freaks, Dracula) silent film The Unknown, starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford, on Sunday night at Alamo Ritz. From the press release:

"What can you do with your feet? In Tod Browning's 1927 silent film The Unknown,  Lon Chaney plays Alonzo, an armless sharpshooter and knife thrower in a Spanish gypsy circus. Alonzo smokes cigarettes, shoots a rifle, plays guitar, and throws knives with his feet, an effect Chaney produced with the help of a real-life armless double (Paul Desmuke). Alonzo's lovely assistant Nanon (Joan Crawford) is the object of his secret affection, but he is not without competition -- circus strong man Malabar (Norman Kerry) is also in love with Nanon, but it seems she cannot bear to have a man's hands touch her. This beautiful and macabre film features Chaney in what is arguably the best performance of his career.

Part of the Austin Film Festival Monthly screenings, free for AFF members and $4 for non-members.

From the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek web site:

2/25- Herpes Boy
Rudolph Murray (writer Byron Lane) hates his life. He has a large purple birthmark on his upper lip and everyday he finds someone staring, pointing, or calling him names-like Herpes Boy. He makes videos for the Internet in which he rants about his quirky life and zany family, including his New Age mother, emotionally distant father, and grumpy grandmother. When his "actress-slash-model-slash-dancer" cousin re-edits his videos to make herself more popular, it attracts a huge new audience and makes Rudolph an unlikely-and unwilling-cyber-celebrity at the worst possible time in his life. Lane has written a very original comedy with a hilarious and memorable performance by himself in the lead role.  Also starring Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Ahna O’Reilly (Forgetting Sara Marshall) and Octavia Spencer (Drag Me to Hell).  Directed by Nathaniel Atcheson. Winner of the 2009 Comedy Vanguard Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival!

Read Debbie Cerda's review of Herpes Boy.

Catch Doug Pray's 2009 documentary Art & Copy about advertising and creativity. Your ticket to this movie will also get you admission to AMOA's upcoming exhibit American Letterpress: The Art of the Hatch Show Print.

Catch Doug Pray's 2009 documentary Art & Copy about advertising and creativity. Your ticket to this movie will also get you admission to AMOA's upcoming exhibit American Letterpress: The Art of the Hatch Show Print.

Alamo Ritz and Harry Ransom Center have teamed up for a special screening of the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind, accompanied by a five-course feast. Which you'll need for this lengthy movie. HRC is will have some costumes and production materials from the film on display as well.

This month's aGLIFF brunch selection is the 1999 film Criminal Lovers. Here's what brunch host Rebecca Havermeyer has to say about it:

"I'm hittin' ya' hard in the heart with CRIMINAL LOVERS...a film where the two main character's idea of foreplay is a locker room sex induced murder that leads to a situation involving things going on in the woods that would make Nancy Grace shit a brick. Who better than tha' French to teach us all about real love, huh?"

Admission is free for aGLIFF members.