Hey folks, Harry here... First up, I want to invite you folks to come on down to an OUT of SXSW Documentary quasi-premiere screening that's taking place along Austin's Fabulous SIXTH STREET of a Documentary that is just... how to say this? Ok... you know crazy fucking rednecks? I mean just bizarre torturing and killing of animals for the general fricking fun of it? I saw an early rough cut of SNAKE HUNT about 3 months ago with a room full of people that were squirming and twitching and just... well not being entirely feeling safe watching the documentary and knowing these folks walk the earth. This is a documentary that sort rips open that RATTLESNAKE ROUND-UP culture in Oklahoma, by just paying witness to the excruciatingly cruel shit they do. The interviews, music and just carnival freak show quality of this thing is a real treat. For the time slot that it is showing, its actually the best film playing. Give it a chance, I'll see ya there, I haven't seen the final cut yet, and besides... The producer is like really hot and like she'll hug you if you show up man! See ya there!
Hey Harry! Thought you might enjoy this bit of info regarding a free, non-sxsw screening happening Sunday March 9th here in town at 6:30 pm at the Flamingo Cantina on 6th st. Sounds interesting, plus there's two free bands (Cooper's Uncle and Boxcar Preachers). Check out the attached flier...
Until next time,
Annette
Hey folks, Harry here again now with Ravvy and his lovely rundown of a pair of films he saw at SXSW that he's shouting out the joys of. GO FURTHER is the latest documentary from that Documentary God of the Frozen North, eh, Ron Mann! GO FURTHER should be broadcast as a pilot for a never ending reality series about wonderfully educated liberal superheros traveling in a hemp powered super bus traveling around the United States, calmly explaining to Republican idiots and other dumb fucks the reality of our alternatives about advancing society, humanity and the world through better, healthier and sensible living. If that doesn't do it for ya, there's naked hot liberal chicks, and the cutest vegan cook you ever did see. And Ravvy mentions the guy he fell for, though he couldn't remember the name... STEVE btw... who literally should be the host of this reality show just waiting to happen. As it stands as a feature film, I really dug it, but fear that it will only be seen by those already in the choir, as opposed to the people who should really be open to the message, but instead just label it as liberal craziness and hippie bullshit. God forbid you open your mind to a better possible way of life, start questioning authority and making the smart moderate life changes that really help make things better. Anyways, here's Ravvy with the scoopy scoop...
Heya Guys,
GOD! I feel like I'm back in venice. I've occupied a computer in a local sschlotzsky's where seven-thousand people are marching back and forth behind me all waiting with much better reasons to be using the computer. I just skipped Harry's panel with Peter Fonda due to massive over-sleepage. Killing time till a movie called Happy Here and Now screens at the paramount, Quint tells me its shit but there really isnt much else to choose from on the schedule at the moment.
Okay onward to the interesting stuff. Last night I saw 3 cool movies here at SXSW 2003, Go Further and Bubba Ho-tep which I will tell you a little about and a funny as hell new indie stoner comedy called Rolling Kansas in which I will probably tell you a little more about, pending no sandwich schilling nazi kicks me off this computer.
The first movie I saw last night was the premiere of Go Further at the paramount. The screening was packed as hell and the start-time was pushed back later and later, which made me nervous as hell as I was meaning to go to the just added screening of Rolling Kansas immediately following Go but at a theatre located way back in the war-torn area of Austin. Everyone and their mother's lover that had anything remotely to do with Go Further was at the screening of the movie, they blocked off about a thousand rows of the theatre for them, but found a few of the most timid/shy paramount ushers to do the row-blocking for them; Chaos ensued.
Go Further the movie is typical Ron Mann goodness. Sure the content of the film weighs down to being nothing more than an infomercial for Woody Harrelson and his healthy ways of living, but Mann finds great subjects in the crew around his health-event. Specifically a production assistant he grabbed right off the set of "Will and Grace" to be transformed into a healthy person. The PA (who I cant exactly remember the name of) is a real show-stealer providing practically all the funny moments in the movie....well except for when a few inbred sheriff's begin referring to Woody as Woody Allen, but nonetheless the PA adapts it and makes it his own later in the movie. This guy deserves his own tv show or something.
Go Further is an endearing film that has a unique ability to inspire audiences toward activism. After the screening during the Q & A 90% of the questions were questions from the audience attempting to further their own passionate causes. Specifically one cute girl who took center-stage and preached about the evil secrets of the media on the children of the world. You had to be there, this altercation was something straight of a movie or something.
ROLLING KANSAS
After the Q&A I leaped from my seat pummeled everyone down in the lobby of the paramount, sprinted to my car, and sped over to Austin-Herzegovia to watch Rolling Kansas. Unfortunately everyone I was driving behind happened to be a thousand years old so I didn't get in until 5 minutes into the movie. Fortunately I did make it, because Rolling Kansas was just pure stoner comedy bliss. Its definately the Super Troopers of this years festival, except it doesn't exactly reach that high of comedic perfection.....but damn does it come close.
Rolling Kansas is a road-trip movie about a group of texas college kids who discover a map that leads to a magical forest of marijuana located somewhere in the middle of Kansas. Along the way they run into groups of hot strippers in backwoods palaces of poon, many inbred severely homophobic sheriffs, and Oldman (Rip Torn) a hitch-hiker who helps the kids along their search for the precious magical forest. The movie is written and directed by Thomas Haden Church (The Dink Mechanic Guy from the NBC series Wings), he also appears in the movie as an FBI agent and scary homophobic sheriff.
The cast of kids in the film just have a great chemistry that keeps the film interesting all throughout. Mr. Church has written a great teen comedy that is surely better than any teen comedy that a studio will unleash on audiences this year. Someone needs to pick up this movie and get it out there, or else there truly is no hope at all left in the world for distribution of indie comedies. The audience was mostly composed of people that had worked on the movie, SXSW only added it at the last minute, lets all hope that at some point that SXSW adds one more screening of the film and properly announces it so that more people can actually get a look at it.
Afterwards I ran out from the screening to the drafthouse for the first SXSW screening of Bubba Ho-Tep. Which is even better the second time around. The audience loved the movie.....MORE REASON THAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO FUCKING PICK UP THIS MOVIE AND RELEASE IT!
Well Schlotzsky's is going to kick my ass out in a few more minutes, so seeya later guys. Hopefully I wont oversleep and miss anymore panels, then perhaps I wont have the free time to write anymore articles WOOOHOO!
later,
Rav
E-me dried crust from your Pizza Boxes covered in Roach Specks!
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