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SXSW Adds Closer Four Lions, Jonze Short, Doors and Star Wars Docs

The SXSW Film Festival has declared its closing night film for March 20: Chris Morris’s Sundance satire Four Lions, the story of British jihadists and their "abstract dreams of glory."

By Sophia Savage
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February 19, 2010 11:19 AM
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SXSW Lures Panel Speakers Michel Gondry, Quentin Tarantino, David Gordon Green

Between March 12 and 20th, Austin's SXSW Film Fest will mount some 80 film panels featuring guests such as Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Pixar exec Susan Bradley, David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Bastards), who is speaking on a genre directors panel.

By Sophia Savage
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February 11, 2010 12:51 AM
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SXSW Unveils Line-Up

The nine-day film SXSW film fest opens March 12 with the world premiere of Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who will all attend a Conversation panel at the SXSW Film Conference, along with the comic's writers, Mark Millar and John S. Romita.

By Anne Thompson
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February 4, 2010 5:00 AM
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SXSW Picks Kick-Ass As Opener

Clearly, Austin is Kick-Ass country.

By Anne Thompson
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January 6, 2010 12:00 AM
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Docu-Weeks Round-Up

There happen to be a surfeit of good docs going the rounds right now, which will be available through various media, theatrical, online and if you need to check where to find something, you can look things up on SpeedCine or SnagFilms. Currently playing there is Zombie Girl: The Movie, directed by 12-year-old Emily Hagins:

By Anne Thompson
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August 14, 2009 1:49 AM
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SXSW: Photo Gallery, from 6th Street Brides to Sega Man

SXSW fest producer Janet Pierson delivered a smooth festival, with just one glitch when one filmmaker didn't show up for a Q & A. Not bad. At the awards ceremony where Made in China (pictured) won the narrative jury prize, Pierson thanked the people she leaned on. But she led those troops. Here's Kim Voynar's profile of a woman coming into her own.

By Anne Thompson
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March 19, 2009 9:08 AM
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SXSW Awards Winners

On Tuesday, the changing of the guard began, as SXSW film people ramped up for awards night, interactive people started to leave town and music people trickled in. Screenings will continue through the weekend. But the film fest proper culminates tonight.

By Anne Thompson
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March 17, 2009 9:35 AM
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SXSW: Hill and Rogen Talk Observe and Report

Monday morning I interviewed Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill (The Foot Fist Way) and star Seth Rogen. The movie played well on Monday night at the Paramount. It's a very dark reality-based comedy about fantasy and self-delusion, basically. The flipcam interview is broken into two parts:

By Anne Thompson
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March 17, 2009 7:16 AM
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Links Round-Up: Diamonds, SXSW's Berney, SnagFilm, Digital Distribution

Paramount has acquired this Wired diamond heist story which is online, still not on stands. Variety comfirms that J.J. Abrams will produce.

By Anne Thompson
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March 16, 2009 9:52 AM
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SXSW Preview: Comedy, DIY, VOD, Critics

True confession: I am a SXSW newbie. While I've visited Austin, I have never attended this fest, which opens Friday with the Apatowish bromance I Love You, Man, which seems to be a perfect fit for the hip younger groove of SXSW.