Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:09PM - By Laura Aguirre
The Argentinian Oscar-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla is hitting the town of Austin this spring to lead a conversation with SXSW goers. SXSW is a huge event that combines film and music, so bringing Santaolalla in for a chat seems like a treat to anyone who plans to be there from March 12 through the 21st.
Santaolalla first came into the music industry in the 70s with his Latino folk/rock band Arco Iris. Then he went solo; and in 2000 he did what any talented musician should do at some time in their life — he scored a film. So at this event, Santaolalla will focus on his career as a film composer and record producer. Anyone looking to do this in the future should definitely attend.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:35AM - By Krystal Clark
Texas native Robert Rodriguez will debut footage from his new film at this year’s SXSW Festival, which happens to be the highly anticipated Predators reboot. He’s been a mainstay at the festival for years and during his latest visit he’ll bring the first look at his version of those orally challenged aliens from above.
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Friday, February 19, 2010 3:24PM - By Mali Elfman
SXSW has just announced their closing night titles, as well as some additional feature and shorts titles playing at this years 2010 festival taking place March 12-16. From the looks of it they picked up a few more hits from Sundance including Skateland, Four Lions and I’m Here , as well as some other titles that many of of have never heard of before. Lately I’ve heard a lot of buzz about When You’re Strange , a film about The Doors which was narrated by Johnny Depp.
Here’s all the new films added to the line-up…
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Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:25AM - By Mali Elfman
SXSW has officially released the full lineup of films for their 2010 festival and it looks like we’re all in for a real treat. Headlining the way are many upcoming favorites including Cyrus (Review, Mark Duplas Interview) which was a huge success at Sundance, Get Low, Micmacs / Micmacs à tire-larigot, MacGruber, The Runaways (Review), Mr. Nice, and the much anticipated film that many people including myself will be traveling to Texas for, Kick-Ass.
Check out the full list of films that are going to be at the fest below…
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Friday, March 13, 2009 7:37AM - By Mali Elfman
SXSW Film Fest is currently taking place and I thought it might be helpful for all of us peons sitting at home to see what SXSW is up to. Hopefully as more good words starts to come out of the Festival we can create our line-up this for this years small and amazing movies to see. Lord knows there are plenty of them.
Below is the full line up on all the features that they will be showing at SXSW Film Fest…
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