Austin Film Festival: Tuesday Film Picks

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Docs are definitely on show, starting at 6 p.m. with Floored, about the traders on Chicago's stock exchange. Already one of the most interesting jobs in America, we're expecting some memorable characters up in here.

At 7 p.m. the Shorts 2 series—with such potential highlights as My Mom Smokes Weed and Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident—looks like a winner

Our 7 p.m. pick being clearly divided, we're going with William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe, a Sundance selection about the lawyer of the Chicago 8, created by his two daughters. Likely thought-provoking and unsettling in equal measure.

If you were thinking that The 300 would make an excellent Chinese war epic, it looks like somebody's beaten you to it with Warlords at 8 p.m. The stories aren't the same, but the style sure is.

If you missed The Vicious Kind Saturday, it's playing again at 9:30 tonight. Adam Scott has taken his expertly crafted sleaze and turned it brilliantly into bumbling-unhappy-thirtysomething.

Lastly, at its only screening during AFF is The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, produced by Johnny Knoxville, about a family that's at the forefront of the redneck avant-garde. Crude, stoned, violent: what's not to love?

See tonight's schedule here.