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DN SXSW2011: Wrap Up
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] With a few weeks’ perspective (and a whole lot of sleep) on our side after the intense 10 days that was SXSW 2011, I asked DN friend Andrew Johnson, host of MovieChatter, to join me for a wrap up session of the films that left a lasting impression. [...]
DN SXSW2011: Bad Fever – Dustin Guy Defa
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Much of what I decided to see at SXSW came from the recommendations of others, so when Andrew Johnson of MovieChatter called me up to insist I join him and the director of one of his favourite South By films for dinner “Right Now!” I hoped it’d turn [...]
DN SXSW2011: Convento – Jarred Alterman
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sitting somewhere between documentary and art piece, Convento looks at the work of Dutch kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and the restored monastery in Portugal that provides both home and inspiration for the work of Christiaan and his family. Director Jarred Alterman joins me to discuss the pleasure of [...]
DN SXSW2011: Kill List – Ben Wheatley
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] With his first feature Down Terrace, Ben Wheatley breathed new life into the hackneyed corpse of the British Gangster flick, so Kill List, his take on the horror movie, was always going to top my SXSW must see list. As it’s very possible I could bump into him [...]
DN SXSW2011: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg has been a critical favourite (see our review) since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year. I got to see Attenberg in Tsangari’s spiritual film home, SXSW (she’s a former Austinite & co-founder of the Cinematexas film festival), and also share a [...]
DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Despite living a 50 minute train ride from my house, it took, two planes and the SXSW film festival for me to catch up with actor and director Tim Plester. Since we last spoke about his short English Language with English Subtitles, Tim’s been hard at work on [...]
DN SXSW2011: Green – Sophia Takal & Lawrence Michael Levine
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] For her directorial debut feature Green, Sophia Takal explores the fraught ground of jealousy and insecurity, and the tricks a mind can play when consumed by both. I joined Sophia and producer/actor Lawrence Michael Levine at SXSW to discuss subverting horror tropes, whilst striking a balance between script [...]
DN SXSW2011: Hit So Hard – David Ebersole & Todd Hughes
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Around the time of the band’s Celebrity Skin album, original Hole drummer Patty Schemel disappeared from the rocket ride of musical stardom and into a darker world of drug addicition and homelessness, from which she eventually emerged stronger, wiser and miraculously with her sense of humour fully intact. [...]
DN SXSW2011: Dragonslayer – Tristan Patterson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] With its solid 10 track album structure, SXSW Best Documentary Feature & Best Cinematography winner Dragonslayer lets us vicariously live in the world of Fullerton skater Josh Sandoval – or ‘Screech’ to those who know him – as he skates pools and battles with the balance between new [...]
DN SXSW2011 – Hesher – Spencer Susser
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ever since I first saw the short I Love Sarah Jane back in ’08, I’ve been hounding director Spencer Susser for a DN interview. Luckily for all of us he was a little too busy working on his jump into features, and even better, that feature turned out [...]
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