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Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles

The good folks at the Austin Film Society have just announced the Austin premiere of Richard Linklater's newest, Me and Orson Welles, with stars Zac Efron and Christian McKay in attendance. And though I'm sure the Paramount will be overrun with tweens, each trying desperately to rip off a lock ...

Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly at Bass Concert Hall

I found out about this late in the game, and I'm unfortunately going to be out of town for it, but artists Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and Françoise Mouly will all be in Austin next month for a one-night-only discussion about comics, art and culture. Spiegelman is best known for ...

John Carpenter to Attend Texas Frightmare Weekend

This coming April, genre heavyweight John Carpenter will visit Dallas for Texas Frightmare Weekend 2010--the homegrown horror convention's 5th anniversary. With a long list of genuine, certified classics (um... Halloween, Christine, The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13), as well as a solid roster of cult faves (Escape from New York, They ...

Frownland on DVD

Ronald Bronstein's bleak, uncompromising indie flick Frownland is now available on DVD. Better yet, it's available in a fancypants deluxe edition that includes outtakes, extras, a vinyl version of the film's score and an actual piece of the original 16mm work print. When the film played at SXSW 07, Bronstein described ...

Dismember the Alamo 2009

This year's Dismember the Alamo zombie film fest is starting to take shape--and it's looking good. There hasn't been an official announcement yet, but I noticed (during my weekly rounds putting together the film listings for Austinist--I'm not obsessive or anything) that three show pages have been added to the Alamo ...

Herzog + Lynch = Meh?

On paper, Werner Herzog's newest, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, is amazing: produced by David Lynch, starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe and Udo Kier. Unfortunately, it's not getting fantastic reviews (it's played at Venice and Toronto sofar). I'm not letting that get me down though--I still have ...

Stuff About Stanley Kubrick

[Stuff About Stanley Kubrick] Wow--I can't believe I've gone this long without knowing that a huge archive of Kubrick-related links existed. I could seriously spend hours looking through all of this and never get bored. Kubrick was a rare bird, and I'm deeply intrigued by him--what's surprising, though, is the sheer ...

David Byrne, Austin, and the Bicycle Diaries

If you know me well, you've probably heard me yammer on about my interest in urban planning and traffic. And from those conversations, you've probably surmised--correctly--that I know absolutely nothing about the subject. Still, that doesn't stop me from being deeply interested in cities. And I was jazzed to hear that ...

Link Roundup for September 13th through September 15th

John Waters' One-Man Show Coming to Austin Probably a lot like This Filthy World. Could be good. Should publicly funded content belog to the public? I love the idea of all that great CBC and TVO content being public domain, and I think it should eventually be (though I'd say 7 ...

Link Roundup for August 24th through September 2nd

Tiny Desk Contert: Bill Callahan Austinite Bill Callahan (formerly known as Smog) performs three songs for the folks at NPR. Unbelievably good. I was lucky enough to see Callahan perform at a tiny Austin club with Joanna Newsom a few years back, and it was easily one of my favorite ...