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March 07, 2009

SXSW Preview

With so many potentially good films on the slate, what to see?

Spotlight Premieres looks to be one of the more promising categories at SXSW if you aren't looking to take much of a chance on getting stuck with a bad film. There are quite a few Spotlight films I'd recommend (and several I'm trying to squeeze into my own cramped schedule): Fest opener I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segal looks promising, and fest-goers can get an early peek before it opens on March 20. I missed 500 Days of Summer at Sundance and have been kicking myself ever since; the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, and reports from Sundance were very positive. Fox Searchlight picked the film up, and it comes out in July, but why wait?

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Posted by kvoynar at March 7, 2009 12:41 PM

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Go see Make it with Violence. It also won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature at the Atlanta Film Festival when it premiered there last year. I'd compare it in a way to Donnie Darko in that it's a high school movie but it's basically unclassifiable because it's such a mix of genres. One of the most exciting truly independent films I've seen over the past few years.

Posted by: djk813 [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 9, 2009 08:22 AM

djk,

Agreed, Make Out With Violence is great and one of the very few films I've seen where I walked out thinking, "Wow, now THAT was completely original in every way." Good original, too, not crap.

I expect it will play very, very well at SXSW -- I'm hoping it ends up with a sweet distrib deal with a distributor who would know how to market it. It could be a huge cult film.

Posted by: Kim Voynar [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 9, 2009 08:52 AM

Definitely agree about "Make-Out With Violence." It's one of my favorite SXSW films I've screened so far.

Posted by: Matthew Lucas [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 11, 2009 09:16 PM

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