Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Boston Underground Film Festival 2009: Hausu and Deadgirl

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Combine a trip south by southwest, the finals of the World Baseball Classic, and not being that hyped for what was playing when during the ...
Monday, March 30, 2009

This Week In Tickets: 16 March 2009 to 29 March 2009

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No TWIT last week, as I was doing more-or-less daily updates, and, besides, the purple tickets that SXSW handed out to give you a primo spot...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

SXSW Day Nine: RiP, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, True Adolescents, Saint Misbehavin', Intangible Asset Number 82

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Random notes from SXSW: * The warm cookies at the Alamo Drafthouse are delicious . I would eat those every time I went to a movie if I coul...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

SXSW Day Eight: The Least of These, Three Blind Mice, Number One With a Bullet, TRIMPIN, and A Film With Me In It

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Despite seeing five movies, I actually had a good-sized chunk of time between The Least of These (which is very short) at 11am and Three Bl...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

SXSW Day Seven: Humpday, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, The Way We Get By, and Exterminators

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Once more, I'm finishing this up just before hitting the street to see my first movie of the day. Just one anecdote to mention; I only ...
Friday, March 20, 2009

SXSW Day Six: Still Bill, Youssou N'dour: I Bring What I Love, The Eyes of Me, and The Slammin' Salmon

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Not much time to write or anything particular to say, so Wednesday's movies: Still Bill * * * ½ (out of four) Seen 18 March 2009 at the ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

SXSW Day Four: Blood Trail, MINE, Best Worst Movie, The Two Bobs, and Observe and Report

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So, I'm watching Best Worst Movie , remembering how the good folks at the Brattle have programmed Troll 2 once or twice but I have neve...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

SXSW Day Five: Splinterheads, Four Boxes, The Promised Land, and Make Out With Violence

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Hey, I'm on vacation. If I think it makes sense for me to post days out of order, I'll go right on and post them out of order! Basi...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

SXSW Day Three: Letters to the President, Garbage Dreams, Sin Nombre, Women In Trouble, and Drag Me to Hell

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This day started with me not being able to get to the Almo South Lamar in time to see ExTerminators at noon, and continued to nearly three ...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

SXSW Day Two: Sorry, Thanks, Bomber, Objectified, Moon, and Black

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Yesterday didn't quite go as planned; I didn't make it to the Paramount in time for Sweethearts of the Rodeo and by the time Moon ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

SXSW Day One: Monsters from the Id and Ong Bak 2

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Saw two movies yesterday; will see more today. The plan is Sweethearts of the Rodeo , Bomber , Objectified , Moon , The Last Beekeeper , an...
Friday, March 13, 2009

This Week In Tickets: 9 March 2009 to 15 March 2009

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This Week In Tickets: 9 March 2009 to 15 March 2009 I'm writing this at 30-odd thousand feet, on the first leg of my Boston-to-Austin t...

The Secret of the Grain

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There's a difference between "art-house" and "boutique" films. One of the people in the group I went with on Tuesda...