Mar 18 2010

South by Southwest’s film festival is hospitable

Written By: Jonathan Rayos | Category: Insight,News | Comments : 0 comments

It doesn’t have the lifestyle suites of Sundance or the $1,000-a-night hotel rooms of Cannes, but when it comes to eclectic programming, the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, running Friday to March 20, has few peers.

Part fanboy gathering and indie-film hot spot, the festival hasn’t yet generated the buyer frenzy of other festivals but it is now considered one of the best launching pads for crowd-pleasing studio romps. In addition to hosting the world premiere of April 16′s “Kick-Ass” from Lionsgate, this year’s Austin, Texas,  festival will be showing July 9′s “Predators” from 20th Century Fox and May 21′s “MacGruber” from Universal.

The film festival, which will be covered for The Times by Indie Focus columnist Mark Olsen, also has set screenings for a number of Sundance titles, including its grand jury prize-winning “Winter’s Bone,” along with “The Runaways,” “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil,” “The Taqwacores,” “Skateland”  and “Lovers of Hate.”

Read the full article by Marc Olsen and John Horn | L.A. Times

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-word11-2010mar11,0,7142388.story

Mar 17 2010

Excerpt from the great interview on the Jimmy Fallon Show, with Michael Moore in the guest chair…

Moore: “I’ve always had this feeling that great art, music, film, whatever- comes out of places that are really struggling.  The Beatles were from Liverpool, not from the West End of London.  So Michigan is kind of like our Liverpool.”

Fallon:  “There’s definitely a lot of cool stuff coming out of there. I hope the best for them, I know you do, too. I had so much fun there, I’d definitely go back.” (on shooting Whip It in Michigan)

Moore: “Great place to make a movie.”