Worlds on Film
April 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
There’s no shortage of bait on the hook for film buffs this weekend in Austin, where the 11th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival takes over half a dozen screens for 9 days with a world-class selection of new releases, narrative features, documentaries and shorts. The programming starts tonight, Wednesday, April 16, with an 8 p.m. screening of Spaniard Carles Bosch’s documentary Septiembres at the Paramount Theater.
Other festival highlights include the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos, a collection the Film Society of Lincoln Center has called “the most important body of work in the history of Brazilian and, arguably, Latin American cinema.”
Full festival scheduling is available at www.cinelasamericas.org.
And if you’re already making plans for next month, make a note that May 1 marks the opening of the very first Marfa Film Festival — a significant milestone in a town with a deep and current history in American cinema (Giant, There Will Be Blood, and No Country For Old Men all filmed in the neighborhood) but no movie screen of its own (films will be projected on an inflatable screen courtesy of Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow).
Highlights out west include a special local screening of There Will Be Blood, a potential appearance by director Paul Thomas Anderson, Austinite David Modigliani’s Crawford (read the Observer’s review here), a late-show dance-party showing of David Byrne’s True Stories, and the promised appearance of Giant’s Dennis Hopper, who’s bringing his long-lost western The Last Movie to town.
See the Marfa festival’s site for the full week’s schedule.
