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Seth Rogen back at SXSW
Sure, Seth Rogen stars in the centerpiece film at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, another very Rogen-esque comedy called “Observe and Report.”
But guess what? We’re a little weary of Rogen and his one-note, lovable schlep/stoner routine. We’re more excited (a teeny bit) that the movie’s directed by Jody Hill, who’s half responsible for “The Foot Fist Way.” So there.
They bill it as Rogen’s return to SXSW — yes, he’ll be there — after his and Paul Rudd’s triumph with “Knocked Up” in 2007.
More panelists for the SXSW film conference have also been announced, including Catherine Hardwicke, Robert Rodriguez, Mike Judge and the inexplicably tolerated Joe Swanberg.
For more SXSW film titles and panelists, go HERE.
“Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits,” a cool traveling exhibition of short videos, arrives in Austin, thanks to the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival and Austin Video Bee.
The 68-minute program plays at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Hideout on Congress Avenue, and is described by its curators as “entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future.”
Details HERE.
Austin’s movie reviewing wunderkind Cole Dabney passes along this delectably mean survey of 2008’s worst film-critic quote whores. It’s great, and it’s HERE.
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