This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
This is a cinematically diverse event whose selections take in everything from high art to low trash.
Film archivist Rick Prelinger puts a new spin on the word “interactive” with No More Road Trips?
This year’s edition of the premiere festival presents a slate as deep and diverse as any in recent memory.
Like it or not, Cheap Thrills does evince a consistent vision, however sophomoric.
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve seen Vampire Weekend via telecast in the anodyne confines of a conference room.
The Milk Carton Kids bring a measure of dark comedy to their music that complicates the comparisons they invite to Simon & Garfunkel.
Downloaded, a chronicle of the rise and fall of Napster, falls on the more conventional end of the documentary spectrum.
Andrew Bujalski rejects the easy drama of the competition as a focus of Computer Chess.
Devendra Banhart’s frequent non sequiturs landed with such winsome glee that they somehow never felt contrived.
Lay a few James Brown records on that drummer and call me in the morning.
Here’s to the extremes of cinema!
Yesterday marked a tonal sea change in Austin, as South By Southwest’s “Interactive” attendees began to trickle off and the music types poured in.
The Pandora Stage at Antone’s showcased a slate of solid rock acts, from the ever-protean Akron/Family to the vintage pop-rock act Guards.
Before Midnight, the latest film by hometown hero Richard Linklater, was one of the festival’s most anticipated features, and it didn’t disappoint.
Prince Avalanche, a Judd Apatow-like bromance elevated to the realm of near-myth, is an extremely odd, deliberately jarring work.
Another opening-night gala screening, another crapshoot.
The most impacting thing True/False does every year is its True Life Fund.
Several films at this year’s festival address the need for family.
It’s been part of the film canon for so long that it’s valuable to remind audiences how gloriously alive and just plain fun it is.
Zachary Heinzerling’s debut film has been one of the films more prominent on everyone’s lips this weekend.