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 published: 2012-03-19SXSW Wrap-Up: Brooklyn Castle, Audience Award Winners And Our Biggest Disappointments As the SXSW team announced more Audience Award winners in various categories, I wanted to run through the last of the films I’d yet to write about in some detail, and also post the last two videos I shot with MovieHole columnist Adam Frazier. Conveniently, we discussed a couple of the films that took home Audience Award trophies this year  filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-14SXSW Video Blog: The Do-Deca Pentathalon And Fat Kid Rules The World As the 2012 South By Southwest Film Festival rolls on, Moviehole columnist Adam Frazier and I are starting to dig into the second tier films – the ones that come into this year’s festival looking for the level of buzz that’s already attached to The Raid, 21 Jump Street or The Cabin in the Woods. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-14SXSW: Gimme The Loot And Eden Lead This Year's Award Winners “It’s been amazing this year to hear over and over again about the high range of quality across the board,” said Janet Pierson, Film Conference and Festival Producer. “I know I’m always going on about the great variety of our program, but this year it seems to have been embraced in even wider measure and it’s very exciting.” filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-13SXSW Video Blog: The Raid And Safety Not Guaranteed Moviehole columnist Adam Frazier and I continue to weigh in on the South By Southwest film festival, jumping on camera whenever time allows to record quick video reactions to the various films programmed at this amazing Austin event filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-13SXSW: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass On Why Safety Not Guaranteed Isn't Really A Time Travel Movie “To a certain extent, you understand that,” Duplass told me. “People like to do that stuff. But I think you do bring up a good point in that this is not a time travel film. This is a relationship movie seen through the prism of time travel, and the metaphor that time travel is." filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-12SXSW: Crowd-Pleasing Documentary Brooklyn Castle To Be Remade By Sony Rudin, of course, produced the chess-themed Searching for Bobby Fischer back in 1993, which Steve Zaillian wrote and directed. The site notes that Cinetic Media, which closed the deal with Rudin, also is shopping for distribution. Wouldn’t it make sense for Sony to grab it, and maybe distribute it wide under Sony Pictures Classics? It’s an amazing doc, and one that’s generating great buzz at SXSW. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-12SXSW: 21 Jump Street Thrills The Crowd At The Paramount Theatre 21 Jump Street opens Friday, and we have been banging the drum hard in support of this raucous comedy. This evening, our bandwagon just tripled as crowds streamed from the Paramount Theatre – where the film just held a South By Southwest premiere – and sang the movie’s praises. These are just a few of our favorite Tweets that blew up Twitter right after the screening. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-12SXSW: The Raid, Compliance And The Festival's First Bomb Here are quick hits on what I’ve seen since. I’ll start at the bottom and work my way up to the top, which means we begin with Frankie Goes Boom, my first -- and so far only -- bust of this year’s fest. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-11SXSW: Killer Joe Shocks, Safety Charms And Nature Calls Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed has been my festival favorite, by far. The open-hearted, snappy and sarcastic crowd-pleaser tells the off-beat story of three Seattle journalists investigating a loner (Mark Duplass) who takes out a classified ad seeking a partner for a time-travel mission. As the relationships unfold and the film’s strong emotional ties deepen, however, Safety become less about traveling through time and more about why individuals would choose to travel in the first place. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-10SXSW: Cabin In The Woods Blows The Doors Off The Paramount Theatre The Paramount crowd devoured the film. By the time the second act kicked into gear, the Paramount screening was starting to feel more like a party than a screening, with audiences anticipating the next twist. By the bombastic third act -- which truly must be seen to be believed -- Cabin had turned the Paramount into a revival tent, and we were all worshipping at the altar of the horror genre and all of its celebratory conventions. filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-09SXSW Preview: 10 Films We're Battling Austin Traffic To See This Week You can’t see everything. That’s the first reality everyone has to embrace before covering a film festival, particularly one that boasts as rich and diverse a schedule as South By Southwest. So Fat Kid Rules the World conflicts with Cabin in the Woods. One has to be sacrificed filed under: sxsw 2012
 published: 2012-03-08Nazis In Space Movie Iron Sky Scores U.S. Distributor The crowd-sourced action-comedy Iron Sky will make its Stateside debut this weekend at SXSW, but there's good news for those who can't make it to Austin. Entertainment One has finally secured Iron Sky's North American distribution rights, finalizing negotiations that began shortly after the wild feature's world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival last month. filed under: sxsw 2012
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