I've been in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest Film Festival, that's where!
Yes, my friends, I did another year of SXSW, and once again covered it for The House Next Door. If this year's experience felt a bit less exciting than last year's—well, perhaps that has less to do with the quality of this year's line-up (though overall, I did find the batch of films I saw this year more hit-or-miss than last year's) than with the inevitable fact that, now that I already had done this once before, the sheer novelty of my being at a film festival outside of New York was already gone before I flew back to Austin about a week and a half ago. So the first flushes of discovery were mostly absent this time around. Thankfully, some of the films I saw picked up the slack—that and that one night I happened to get into a free performance that featured a final cameo appearance by none other than The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen!
I have a whole bunch of links to post on this blog of pieces I published while at SXSW in addition to a couple of other non-SXSW-related links. I'll get to those in a future post...soon, I hope. For now, here's my latest artistic consumption log, in mere list form:
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| Keyhole (2011) |
Films
★ Goodbye (2011, Mohammad Rasoulof), seen at Museum of Modern Art in New York [second viewing]
South by Southwest Film Festival 2012, all films seen in Austin, Texas:
The Cabin in the Woods (2011, Drew Goddard), seen at Paramount Theatre
Girls Against Boys (2012, Austin Chick), seen at Alamo Ritz
★ Girl Model (2011, David Redmon & A. Sabin), seen at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
★ Tchoupitoulas (2012, Bill & Turner Ross), seen at Alamo Ritz
Killer Joe (2011, William Friedkin), seen at Paramount Theatre
Gimme the Loot (2012, Adam Leon), seen at Alamo Lamar
★ Keyhole (2011, Guy Maddin), seen at Alamo Lamar
★ The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (2012, Jay & Mark Duplass), seen at Alamo Ritz
★ The Raid: Redemption (2011, Gareth Evans), seen at Paramount Theatre
Compliance (2012, Craig Zobel), seen at Stateside
★ 21 Jump Street (2012, Phil Lord & Chris Miller), seen at Paramount Theatre
★ Somebody Up There Likes Me (2012, Bob Byington), seen at Alamo Lamar
★ Under African Skies (2012, Joe Berlinger), seen at Alamo Lamar
Intruders (2011, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo), seen at Alamo Ritz
★ Black Pond (2011, Tom Kingsley & Will Sharpe), seen at Alamo Lamar
Bernie (2011, Richard Linklater), seen at Paramount Theatre
★ Last Call at the Oasis (2011, Jessica Yu), seen at Alamo Lamar
Los Chidos (2012, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez), seen at Alamo Ritz
Music
★ Trans-Europe Express (1977, Kraftwerk)
★ The Stranger (1977, Billy Joel) [second listen]
The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival:
★ Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 (1799-1800) / Hartmann: Concerto funèbre for Solo Violin and String Orchestra (1939/1959) / Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, Sinfonia eroica (1802-04), performed by Gil Shaham (violin), David Zinman (conductor) and the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in New York
Television
★ Girls (2012- ), seen at Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas
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