December 1, 2005

Capital City. (TX)

Austin Chronicle "Austin has played a pivotal role in the influx of Japanese pop-cultural eye candy during the past decade," writes Marc Savlov in the Austin Chronicle. "What used to be called Japanimation is now the single most popular form of episodic entertainment in the country among the key 8-38 age demographic.... Locally, this has everything to do with a now defunct outfit called Monster Island Studios, which, as a satellite of Houston-based animé giant AD Vision."

Most fun sentence: "It always comes as a shock to discover that longtime Austin actor Ed Neal, along with having one of the lengthiest track records in horror-movie-character-actor history, a huge collection of Polish film one-sheets, the passing acquaintance of one Liza Minnelli, and a blinding white Caddie parked in front of his house with a rip in the upholstery caused by Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister roughhousing a topless dancer one late, late night, long, long ago, is also one of the most accomplished animé voice talents in the country."

In a sidebar, Savlov recommends five series in which you can hear actors from Austin. And he even offers a slew of online viewing tips: ADV's trailers.

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Meanwhile, Blake at Cinema Strikes Back: "The Alamo Drafthouse has acquired a huge stash of rare Italian trailers. What better way to put these to use than with their Trailerthon 4: The Italian Connection!" Saturday, December 3, in Austin.

And this is as good a time as any to mention that, once again, I'll be taking part in a panel on film blogs at SXSW in March. See you there?



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Posted by dwhudson at December 1, 2005 10:55 AM