James Lavelle has enjoyed, or perhaps endured, a music career that bears no exact parallels elsewhere in the business. And yet, as told by the often scattered, sometimes exhausting yet ultimately quite insightful documentary “Artist & Repertoire,” it’s hard to find a more vivid symbol for the tumultuous turnovers of the record business over the past three decades.…
Austin, Texas, is known for a lot of things: breakfast tacos, extraordinary live music, the miraculous disease-curing magical goo that the locals call “queso.” But for film fanatics, the appeal of the Lone Star State’s bastion of wonderful weirdness can be boiled down to one specific thing: the SXSW Film Festival. (And also queso —…
Early this week, Milwaukee Film announced the dates for the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival — Sep. 22 to Oct. 6. This got me thinking about films that I hope the festival will screen, especially music-centric documentaries. Below is my list of the top 13 music documentaries to see in 2016. Read the full article at the link below.
The 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival has announced the feature films screening in its Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Headliners, Narrative Spotlight, Documentary Spotlight, Visions, Episodic, 24 Beats Per Second, and SXGlobal categories. Among the films on tap for the Austin-based SXSWthat runs March 11-19 are Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead; the narco-wars thriller Transpecos; the documentary Gary Numan: Android In…
South by Southwest has unveiled most of its eclectic lineup with world premieres of movies starring James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Keegan-Michael Key, Adam Scott and Bella Thorne. The 23rd edition of the Austin-based festival opens March 11 with the previously announced Richard Linklater comedy-drama “Everybody Wants Some.” The nine-day festival will screen 139…
Austin’s annual South by Southwest Festival (SXSW for short) has announced this year’s lineup of films, which includes movies like Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition, comedian Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice, and Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead. “SXSW prides itself on presenting an eclectic mix of emerging and established talent in a range of genres from comedy, thrillers, docs, and…
South by Southwest has done it once again. The festival has put together, what certainly appears to be, an epic lineup for its annual “24 Beats Per Second” music film series. The festival runs March 11-19 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.sxsw.com. Read the full article at the link below.
Hey folks, Harry here…Today, SXSW, unleashed the “rest of the story” when it comes to the titles playing at this year’s 23rd SXSW! I’ve included the entire press release from SXSW, simply because there is so much great trivia that shows you just how difficult programming a festival like this is. They received…
There will be late additions, but the bulk of this year’s SXSW feature film slate has been unveiled. From the festival, here’s the rundown section by section. Obvious highlights: world premieres of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some and Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, Joel Potrykus’ follow-up to Buzzard, and a documentary about the making of Smokey and the Bandit from Jesse Moss…
SXSW 2016 is fast approaching. We already know the full lineup of bands that will descend on Austin next month for the music side of the festival, and today, the organizers have announced the lineup of movies that will be screened at the accompanying nine-day film festival. The Sky Ferreira-starring thriller The Trust, which follows…