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  • Film: Tell us the truth about Day One! 

    posted by: Sean O'Neal

    March 13, 2009 - 10:03p.m.

    Holy crow, is it that time again already? I swear we swept the final discarded promo CD from the street and packed away the last Levi’s banner just the other week. But here’s Austin’s works, gummed with outlanders, choked with pedestrians who just flew in from What’s A Walk Signal?, USA, and grinding to a halt under the fascistic order of The Badge. Yup, it’s definitely that season, and once again I’m in the thick of it because I live in this city even when it's not worth paying attention to—and so, like a friendly Burl Ives snowman, it falls to me to spin you The Story Of SXSW.
     
    And actually, that’s not far from the truth, because—despite the best efforts of the SXSW organizing committee—today has been nothing but bitter cold. Not just cold, but rainy with a touch of shitty. The weather is so dreary that I actually overheard two Microsoft folks today in the badge pick-up line saying they may as well have never left Seattle. (Which then led to them ranking cities on whether humans had any business living there; sorry to say that Minneapolis ...

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  • Film 2009: Preview

    posted by: Leonard Pierce

    March 13, 2009 - 04:03p.m.

    At the risk of alienating our entire readership with this highly controversial opinion, South By Southwest is always fun. Oh, sure, you Austin natives may have to deal with out-of-town headaches like myself taking up your parking spots and occupying seats at your favorite eateries chatting up fabulous celebrities, but try to see things from my perspective. I get to jet up the I-35, and inside an hour’s time, I’m one of the beautiful people. My friends are all in town, I get to see a bunch of bands and movies for free, and I can annoy impoverished scenesters by waving my all-access badge around. And, best of all, while the music side of the festival is starting to turn into an unmanageable mess, the film festival, which I’ll be covering alongside Austin Decider capo Sean O’Neal, seems to get better every year.
     
    SXSW Film 2009 promises an interesting slate of flicks, with more intriguing-sounding documentaries than ever, and a few big-league narrative features, most notably the Paul Rudd vehicle I Love You, Man, which will be taking up space at your local multiplexes any day now. But the real kick for festivalgoers, if not for ...

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