Austin Chronicle. AFF 08.

Opening up the Austin Chronicle's Austin Film Festival preview package, Kimberly Jones finds lots to laugh about: "Hitting every shade of funny from sunshine-silly to black, blacker, blackest comedy, exhibits A through C: award recipients such as The Office's Greg Daniels and film director Danny Boyle (who found sick, hilarious stuff in a junkie's toilet bowl dip in Trainspotting), the festival's indie-oriented Comedy Vanguard sidebar, and sneak looks at Hollywood films such as possible sleeper hit Bart Got a Room and Oliver Stone's long-awaited biopic W., which by definition is surely as much a comedy as a tragedy."

The film festival runs October 16 through 23; the conference runs through October 19 and will be focussing on screenwriting; hence Jones and fellow Chronicle critic Josh Rosenblatt's scheduled "Film Fight III: Writers in the Movies."

Also in the Chronicle: Raoul Hernandez previews I Married a Witch: Fredric March's Comic Curse, the Austin Film Society series running October 21 through November 18.

Posted by dwhudson at October 9, 2008 7:20 AM