Meanwhile, in Austin.

Matt Dentler checks in on post-production for Richard Linklater's next one. No, not Bad News Bears, though, yes, that may well be fun. The one we're really waiting for: "I remember when we screened Waking Life during SXSW in 2001, I mentioned to Rick, 'No one has seen anything like this before.' But, in the case of A Scanner Darkly, everything moves to the next level. Everything changes when this movie is released."

Linklater recently gave a talk at the University of Texas, by the way. At the Daily Texan (where your intrepid blogger filed his first film and book reviews long, long ago), Jocelyn Ehnstrom nabs a few quotes and observations. Via Wiley Wiggins.

Marc Savlov's hefty cover story for the Austin Chronicle surveys the state of special effects in and around the local filmmaking scene: "[S]urprisingly, and somehow comfortingly, as well, even in this highest of high tech cinema savvy cities, where virtually every other person you pass on Congress Avenue works for either a video-gaming company or is shooting, writing, or editing a film, the old school has yet to adjourn, and the new school? It took the lessons of the past to heart in ways Hollywood never quite managed." Sidebars: a talk with Brian McNulty of Highway 71 Productions a list of Austin's FX companies and artists. With addresses and URLs.

With more than 100 films lined up, the 8th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival opened Wednesday night and runs through Sunday. The Chronicle selects and writes up about a dozen screenings. Matt Dentler, by the way, was at the opening.

Also: Shawn Badgley a budding comedy troupe and Spencer Parsons reviews Disney's release of Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso on DVD.

Posted by dwhudson at April 22, 2005 12:03 PM