SXSW

  • SXSW Finale: Overcrowding, Leaked Winners, Don Henley

    And a tribute to Portland film editor Karen Schmeer, who died in January

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    John Lichman

  • ‘Marwencol,’ ‘Furniture’ Top SXSW Winners

    “Brotherhood” and “For Once in My Life” capture audience awards at Texas film festival

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  • ‘Red White & Blue’: Love, Brutality, Duct Tape

    Director Rumley: “We are “essentially good and, on another level, f– ourselves up all the time for no real reason”

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    John Lichman

  • JimCarrey.com Wins SXSW Web Award

    Actor’s site won film/TV category, judged on visual design, creativity and content

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    Wrap Staff

  • A Slacker Detective, a Parking Lot and Violence, Violence …

    Buzz films pop up all over the weekend

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    John Lichman

  • So You Think You’re a Film Critic?

    Critics talk about critics, enthusiasts and those folk quoted in movie ads

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    John Lichman

  • ‘Kick-Ass’ and ‘Predator’ Do Just That on Opening Night

    And Robert Rodriguez says his “Spy Kids 2” will come before “The Jetsons”

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    John Lichman

  • ‘Elektra Luxx’ — Punk Filmmaking With Big Stars

    Sequel to “Women in Trouble” stars Gugino, Brolin, Olyphant, Silverstone, Gordon-Levitt

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  • SXSW 2010: From ‘Kick-Ass’ to 3D Hubble

    58 world premieres and a slew of Sundance retreads highlight the 8-day film fest opening Friday

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    John Lichman

  • It Was All About New Voices

    SXSW film producer Janet Pierson brought a lot of famous faces to Austin this week, from Seth Rogen to Hal Holbrook, but when asked to list her favorite movies of the festival, she goes for the end of the spectrum. Pierson names the Japanese bug documentary "Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo," the divisive portrait "Brock Enright:…

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    Eric Kohn

  • Do You Know Your Chiptunes?

    Whether the art form is film, music or some experimental amalgam of the two, SXSW’s leading contributors make room for it. That fact became especially clear on Wednesday night, when Austin’s old Salvation Army story adjacent to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar hosted a showcase of the highly distinctive music genre known as chiptunes —…

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    Eric Kohn

  • Niche Marketing Guru Has Recipe for Success

    Many of the movies that screen at SXSW each year — particularly the documentaries — speak to such specific crowds that it’s hard to imagine how to get them to find audiences after the festival. But indie distributor Richard Abramowitz knows the name of the game. Abramowitz, the president of Abramorama, which provides marketing, distribution…

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    Eric Kohn

  • In Music, Too, the Word Is: ‘Interactivity’

    "Free is the new black," said musician and lecturer Martin Atkins in a speech this afternoon kicking off the music festival at SXSW. Atkins’ discussion of the changing of state of the music industry connected to many of the ideas about audience interactivity discussed during the film and interactive components of the conference. (Although the…

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    Eric Kohn

  • It’s No Secret: Linklater Channels ‘Welles’

    No SXSW Film Festival can do without Richard Linklater. The Austin-based filmmaker routinely appears at the fest each year, whether or not he has a movie in it. This time, the program technically contained no Linklater movie, but he managed to slip one in, anyway. A Monday 11 a.m. "secret screening" at Austin’s Paramount theater…

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    Eric Kohn

  • SXSW Winners: ‘45365,’ ‘That Evening Sun’

    Jury members for the SXSW film festival handed out awards to a number of small, below-the-radar movies during Tuesday night’s awards ceremony at the Austin Convention Center. With 133 features and 127 shorts, the program offered plenty of options. However, the only movie that landed a major award after a week of strong word of…

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    Eric Kohn