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A spontaneous sing-a-long, some last words, empty corridors — until next year The 14th annual Austin Film Festival ended with the Closing Night Screening of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, directed by Sidney...
Austin, Texas During The 1960s As the festival drew near a conclusion on its next-to-last day, I took a mental and physical health break from the event. Festival stress and daily blogging using my...
Along with many, Anna honors Don Rickles Okay, it’s time for me to come clean. Summer before last, I planned a visit to my in-laws around seeing a Don Rickles show in Manchester, New...
Anna knows the city and the people Monday is a quiet day for the Austin Film Festival. Nothing is scheduled before noon, and there are no features being shown until the evening. After reading...
I started Sunday with a whole lot of other festival attendees at a Hair of the Dog brunch at Ranch 616 restaurant. Admittedly, it took my husband bringing me two cups of coffee to...
The second day of the Austin Film Festival went by in an absolute blur. I think part of the reason was Thursday’s late-night world-premiere of the zombie-riffic Street Team Massacre at the tiny Hideout...
The screenings for the 14th annual Austin Film Festival started last night at Austin’s historic and glamorous Paramount Theatre. Before the evening got properly underway, I spent some time staring up at the painted...
Dressed in jeans and a black hoodie– and clutching a beer– film director Quentin Tarantino paced in the spotlight of the small stage of the Alamo Drafthouse theater in downtown Austin, Texas. He told...
At the 13th Annual South by Southwest Film Festival, science fiction, supernatural and horror films comprised an increasingly larger proportion of the festival’s 600 plus films, according to SXSW film programmer Matt Dentler, 27. Among the events at the spring festival was the “Grindhouse 101” panel where “GRINDHOUSE” director Robert Rodriguez and Harry Knowles of Aintitcoolnews.com discussed their appreciation of the vintage low-budget films with shocking gimmicks that were played in the old theaters known as grindhouses.
A version of this ran in the French magazine L’Ecran Fantastique under the byline Anna Hanks Sicard No matter what you think of Mel Gibson’s religion and politics— especially following The Passion of the...
