More SXSW, more shorts.

First things first, though: Doug Cummings on Chantal Akerman.

Now then, the SXSW Film Festival. Wiley Wiggins catches Richard Linklater's Before Sunset and the panel discussion with Linklater and Jim Jarmusch.

Chuck Olsen's taken some Austin atmo snapshots.

In the Austin Chronicle:

• A big long string of brief reviews of films shown at the fest.
• Full list of the awards.
• The Texas Hall of Fame Awards, photos and quotes (Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Forest Whitaker, Ann Richards and more).
• Marc Savlov: "The unofficial world premiere of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy was cooler than Hades." And a brief wrap-up of the fest so far.
• Joey Pants has won the "Film/Film Industry" Interactive 04 Web Award.
• And Kimberley Jones talks to Charlie Kaufman. (What if we linked to every single interview with Charlie Kaufman as it appears, one after the other, almost in real time? What would happen?)

It's not directly related to anything filmish (except possibly the release of Shattered Glass on DVD next week), but it's hard not to crane a neck and point to Christopher Frizzelle's joint interview with Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass in the Stranger. What is directly related, of course, is Bradley Steinbacher's review of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a review accompanied by - wait for it - Sean Nelson's interview with Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry.

Two more noteworthy reviews of the film, though: John Powers in the LA Weekly and Susan Gerhard in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Short shorts:

• It's official, reports Dan Glaister in the Guardian: Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise are remaking The War of the Worlds.
• Out of Focus: "The Hollywood Reporter has a story today about a new musical to be directed by John Turturro and starring Christopher Walken, Mary-Louise Parker, James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Mandy Moore and Kate Winslet. Yes... I said a new musical."
• Tagliner Alistair Reid: "Believe what you read and Rodriguez's Sin City movie will be a clash of the egos not seen since the set of Oliver Stone's Alexander romp. Or that the script's just been sent out to all the usual suspects, blanket style."
• Via the cinetrix, Mercedes McCambridge, 1918 - 2004.
• Cintra Wilson profiles John Hurt in Salon (and an editor promises more, one a month on "one of entertainment's underappreciated greats").
• An update in the New York Times from Eric A Taub on the "TiVolution."

Online listening tip. Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco, together at last.

Posted by dwhudson at March 18, 2004 7:08 AM