Every year the world of film, music and interactive (those online people running the world) converge on Austin. With the hospitality of a small southern town and the cool laid back factor of the southwest
South by Southwest film, interactive, and music festival is a huge industry event with a homey feel. With thousands at the festival, you still manage to make new friends and run into old ones
At the film festival there are hundreds of movies to choose from, so many in fact that it is impossible to see everything while you are here. However, filmgoers try their hardest, standing in long lines 5 or 6 times a day in order to get in to as many films as possible
Some of the films are worth the wait and some are sadly a waste of time. Although I saw only a few out of the two hundred or so films, here are what movies to look out for, what might make it to Oxford (someday) and what you can wait to just rent
Super High Me is a stoner's afternoon delight. Even if you have never been around marijuana, the film is 94 minutes of a comic masterpiece
Comedian Doug Benson decides to take from Morgan Spurlock's
Super Size Me but instead of fast food, he gets high for 30 days. But to do so, he must first (Benson is a known pothead) not smoke for 30 days
While you won't learn much out of the film, you will be highly (pun intended) entertained. The best news is that your friendly Oxford Film Festival folks will be working with B-Side to bring the film to Oxford this year
Probably the only opportunity Oxonians will have to see
My Effortless Brilliance is when Director Lynn Shelton gets it out to a distributor for us to be able to rent it or if by chance she brings it to the Oxford Film festival
After seeing a few of this year's mumblecoresque films,
My Effortless Brilliance rose to the top as my favorite not only for its intimate look at the demise and rebuilding of a friendship between two men but the fact that their was no script
At the world premiere of
Forgetting Sarah Marshall the new Judd Apatow production, opened to a very positive crowd
At the film festival there are hundreds of movies to choose from, so many in fact that it is impossible to see everything while you are here. However, filmgoers try their hardest, standing in long lines 5 or 6 times a day in order to get in to as many films as possible
After seeing a few of this year's mumblecoresque films, My Effortless Brilliance rose to the top as my favorite not only for its intimate look at the demise and rebuilding of a friendship between two men but the fact that their was no script
