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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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In this Sundance hit by former Austinites Mark and Jay Duplass, a woebegone guy (John C. Reilly) falls for a single mother (Marisa Tomei). All's bliss until he meets her hyper-possessive son Cyrus (Jonah Hill) and finds he has to compete for her attentions. Imagine dating Jonah Hill's mom and you get the picture: funny, annoying, heartbreaking. With the Duplasses, Reilly and Hill in attendance.

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(`Cyrus')

In this Sundance hit by former Austinites Mark and Jay Duplass, a woebegone guy (John C. Reilly) falls for a single mother (Marisa Tomei). All's bliss until he meets her hyper-possessive son Cyrus (Jonah Hill) and finds he has to compete for her attentions. Imagine dating Jonah Hill's mom and you get the picture: funny, annoying, heartbreaking. With the Duplasses, Reilly and Hill in attendance.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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('Lemmy')

Last year at SXSW, Iron Maiden's concert film rocked the Paramount Theatre. The 95-year-old venue survived. We fear for it now with this rock doc about the baddest, growliest elder statesman of metal, Motörhead leader Lemmy. The movie tails the chain-smoking, whiskey-guzzling legend around the world with his band, revealing the sage sexagenarian behind the bearded scowl. Will Lemmy be there? We're afraid to ask.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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( `Lovers of Hate' )

Two brothers love the same woman in Bryan Poyser's creepy-funny indie that beguiled Sundance crowds. Set in a multi-story house, this tale of sibling rivalry plumbs the passions and pathologies of the human heart with uncomfortable honesty.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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(`American: The Bill Hicks Story' )

Comedian Bill Hicks died, at 32, before he could conquer the world, but he did a pretty good job at leaving a mark anyway. In the '80s and early '90s, Hicks won cult status in Austin (and beyond) for his barbed iconoclasm and profane rants about American religion, politics, media and social values. He had a fiery style lit by uncompromising passion. He meant it. Word is that this documentary does the very funny man justice.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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(`Trash Humpers.' )

Bad-boy provocateur Harmony Korine revels in the creep-out. With a punky, found-art aesthetic, he makes freakish worlds populated by humans only Cripsin Glover could love. The films are funny, deeply disturbing, hypnotic. His latest follows `the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before.' That's our boy.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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( `Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts')

A dialectic bloodbath, as charter members of the dismemberment club cavil about kills and bicker over beheadings. It's a voluble group of naughty boys who refuse to grow up, all of them superstars in cinema's Hell of Fame: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Ruben Fleischer (`Zombieland'), Neil Marshall (`The Descent'), Ti West (`House of the Devil'), Matt Reeves (`Cloverfield' and `Let Me In,' the remake of `Let the Right One In').

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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(`The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus')

AKA Austin pals make good. Former hometownies Jay & Mark Duplass (`Cyrus') and current Austinites Bryan Poyser (`Lovers of Hate') and Geoff Marslett (`Mars') join actor-director Katie Aselton (`The Freebie'), who happens to be Mark's wife. They'll conduct a friendly confab about being shooting stars in American indie film. True DIYers, the filmmakers are collaborative cross-pollinaters, as you'll see in their movies, all screening at the fest.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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(`Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' )

If you want a chair, come early for this master class in extemporaneous whimsy. Tambor -- the tall, bald, strange man from `The Larry Sanders Show' and `Arrested Development' -- puts two actors and himself through the paces, thrilling overflow crowds who've made this show an annual smash.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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( `How to Defuse a Bomb and Other Life Lessons from the Cast of 'MacGruber'' )

`Saturday Night Live' writers and performers Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, plus Ryan Phillippe, blab about their Hollywood action-comedy, tell lots of inside jokes and make themselves laugh ... all the way to the bank.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'

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(`Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution' )

This one's the broccoli of the bunch -- bitter but necessary in turbulent times for indie distribution. It's about transitioning. It's about viewing movies on tiny screens. It's about growing pains. Efe Cakarel (The Auteurs), Peter Becker (The Criterion Collection), Graham Leggat (San Francisco Film Society) and Sara Pollack (YouTube) discuss the new realties.

Info. on must-see movies and must-attend panels: 'Cyrus' | 'Lemmy' | 'Lovers of Hate' | 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' | 'Trash Humpers' | 'Directing the Dead: Genre Directors Spill Their Guts' | 'The Kids Are Alright: Jay & Mark Duplass Plus' | 'Jeffrey Tambor's Acting Workshop' | 'How to defuse a bomb and other life lessons from the cast of 'MacGruber'' | 'Nobody Wants to Watch Your Film: Realities of Online Film Distribution'