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The early buzz: IFC teaming up with SXSW
IFC Festival Direct and South by Southwest are teaming up to present five movies this year that will also be available, by pay per view, on television.
In Austin, the movies can be accessed through IFC in Theaters on Time Warner Cable’s Movies on Demand Channel 1000. Prices range from $5 to $7.
The highest-profile movie in the lineup is ‘Alexander the Last,’ directed by Joe Swanberg.
Swanberg has become a regular at the Austin festival and typically premieres his films here.
The low-budget ‘Alexander the Last’ focuses on the perils faced by a young couple, both of whom are creative professionals and being tempted by the attractive people with whom they work. Like other Swanberg movies, it poses questions about monogamy, both emotionally and sexually. Barlow Jacobs, Jess Weixler and Justin Rice star, and Swanberg and most of the cast will be on hand for the premiere at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Paramount. It will also screen at 11 a.m. March 19 at the Alamo South and at 11:30 a.m. March 21 at the Austin Convention Center.
The other movies in the program are:
‘Paper Covers Rock,’ which focuses on a young woman (Jeannine Kaspar) who tries to commit suicide and then has to fight to regain her daughter. Joe Maggio (‘Virgil Bliss’) directs. 7 p.m. Friday at the Hideout.
‘Medicine for Melancholy,’ returning from last year’s festival and dealing with the one-night stands of two African Americans in San Francisco. 9 p.m. Friday at the Hideout.
‘Three Blind Mice,’ an Australian tale about three Navy officers who go out on the town in Sydney before shipping off to war. 5 p.m. Sunday at the Alamo South, 10 p.m. Tuesday (March 17) at the Alamo South and 3 p.m. March 20 at the Alamo Ritz.
‘Zift,’ a Bulgarian story about a man who’s released from an unjust imprisonment to discover that he’s living in a totalitarian state in the 1960s. Javor Gardev directs, and cinematographer Emil Christov brings an atmospheric eeriness to the film. 11:59 p.m. Friday at the Alamo Ritz and 11:59 March 19 at the Alamo Ritz.
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