SXSW2011
DN SXSW2011: Wrap Up
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. With a combined viewing count of 60+ [...]
DN SXSW2011: Bad Fever – Dustin Guy Defa
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 out to be a good watch. As [...]
DN SXSW2011: Convento – Jarred Alterman
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 screening Convento for the SXSW audience and [...]
DN SXSW2011: Kill List – Ben Wheatley
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 back home in Brighton, I was overjoyed [...]
DN SXSW2011: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari
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 coffee with her as we discussed the [...]
DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester
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 his feature documentary Way of the Morris [...]
DN SXSW2011: Green – Sophia Takal & Lawrence Michael Levine
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 and improvisation. I think that jealousy is [...]
DN SXSW2011: Hit So Hard – David Ebersole & Todd Hughes
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. Director (and personal friend of Schemel’s) David [...]
DN SXSW2011: Dragonslayer – Tristan Patterson
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 fatherhood and teen freedom. I spoke to [...]
DN SXSW2011 – Hesher – Spencer Susser
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 to be the excellent Hesher. I tracked [...]
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