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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Amongst the tousled, too-hip-for-the-room Japanese punks and the deglammed hipster brunettes with Jackie O. shades, one of the more recognizable constituencies walking around this year's SXSW would have to be the portly bearded male, so prominent in number...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. America may be under siege by killer bees in Texas and giant buffaloes in the middle of North Dakota, if "World's Largest" is to be believed. The people in small towns are getting stung and stomped not by creatures' tails and hooves, but rather...
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"There's a couple of you I'd like to touch, but most of you, I'll be hilarious with," Bill Murray said in response to a question about how he found the tonal balance between touching and hilarious in "Get Low," the period dramedy that premiered in Austin Wednesday night...
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It was awards night at SXSW this evening where comedian Eugene Mirman presided over the announcement of this year's Jury and Audience Awards of the narrative, documentary and shorts competitions. While we'll have to wait until March 22nd to learn who picked up audience prizes in the Spotlight...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Honestly, "Tiny Furniture" should be intolerable. It's about post-college malaise, which is the type of topic that becomes exponentially harder to relate to as you get distance on it. It's about the added doldrums of figuring out a career when...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. "Why don't you just help me?" Rudy Lucas (Chris Doubek) pleads of his brother Paul (Alex Karpovsky) at one point in "Lovers of Hate." It's a simple question, but it takes nearly Bryan Poyser's entire movie to answer. Strangely,...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. To answer the immediate question at hand, "MacGruber" is in fact the funniest "Saturday Night Live" spinoff since "Wayne's World" in 1992. But as anyone who follows such things knows, that isn't necessarily high praise. In...
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I wish I found Hadrian's Wall half as intriguing as British director Neil Marshall apparently does. The structure, located in northern England, was built by the Romans to defend their northern line against the tribes beyond it, and it's inspired the lesser two of Marshall's films -- 2008's...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Every day of Ron Hogan's life looks exactly like the one before it. The alarm clock goes off at 6:30. After a stretch at the side of the bed, it's time to shower and dress. Then a stop off at the convenience store for the same cup of coffee before heading...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. When introducing the world premiere of "Serbian Film," the directorial debut of Srdjan Spasojevic, the filmmakers suggested that the screening might result in Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League, who had programmed it, getting arrested. That's pretty...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. The loud yellow letters that open Jeff Deutchman's "11/4/08" announce that "You are watching a consensual piece of cinema," which carefully sidesteps the fact that it is not a film in any traditional sense of the word. Shot on dozens of...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. James Franco's student film for NYU's graduate program was originally intended to be a portrait of "Saturday Night Live" star Bill Hader, but "SNL" creator Lorne Michaels had other ideas. In a short video played before the start of...
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Reviewed (sort of) at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Sometimes the movie gods smile upon you, though Sebastian Guitierrez probably wasn't feeling that way during the SXSW premiere of "Elektra Luxx." Roughly an hour and ten minutes into the sequel to last year's crowdpleaser "Women...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. A confession: I've passed over "The Red Chapel" before. It's been making film festival rounds since the fall of last year. I'd glance over the description -- "small theater troupe," "Denmark," "cultural exchange visit...
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Reviewed at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. At the intersection of pot and poetry, at a place we might as well dub "potetry," lies Tim Blake Nelson's "Leaves of Grass." Pot movies, like potheads, have a tendency to wax philosophical -- this one has an actual philosophy lecture. In...
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