Made In Texas: True Stories

Anyone that’s ever driven around Texas knows one thing for sure—it’s friggin’ HUGE. Seriously. We’ve been all over this damn state at one time or another, and we feel like we have a pretty good idea of the geography. But we’ve never seen any place like Virgil, Texas.

Well, now’s your chance to see this incredibly interesting, oddball (and totally fictional) town in David Byrne’s musical feature film, True Stories. The Austin Film Festival screens this 1986 cult classic as part of their Made in Texas Film series. The film screens at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum’s Texas Spirit Theater tonight at 7:30.

The film, written and directed by the head Talking Head himself, stars many recognizable actors, like John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Stephen Tobolowsky (you know his face if not his name, which is super fun to type, btw) as the residents of this strange town, and Byrne himself as the gawky narrator in a ten gallon hat.

There are definitely some Talking Heads songs in the movie, most memorably “Wild Wild Life,” so you’ll get to rock out a little, and the other Heads even make cameos, so keep your eyes peeled. But make no mistake, the big draw for this movie is its quirky weirdness; a celebration of special-ness you won’t find anywhere but Texas. Just…you know…the fictional one.