Entries from Austinist tagged with 'jeffbridges'
October 20, 2006
Stop by the Driskill Hotel to purchase movies passes or badges. Individual movie tickets can be purchased at showtime the theatres. Payback – Straight Up Retrospective Screens: 7:30pm @ Spirit of Texas Theatre [from AFF] In 1998, during post-production of his film Payback, Brian Helgeland got fired -- 86ed -- pole-axed. The ending of the film was re-shot, narration was added, key scenes were cut and a character was recast. Seven years later he......
Continue Reading "AFF: Friday's Schedule"April 28, 2006
Providing a fresh and funny perspective on double entendre is writer/director--and Austin Film Festival regular--Jessica Bendinger's (Sex & The City, Bring It On, Aquamarine) Stick It, an up-to-date take on elite girls’ gymnastics. Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) runs with the boys. She dresses like one. Takes risks like one. Even talks back to authority like one. She’s the perfect heroine in a film that uses this Spandex-lacquered-to-your-butt-cheeks-with-Tough-Skin sport as an analogy for the real-world issues......
Continue Reading "It’s Not Called ‘Gym-nice-stics’: Jessica Bendinger’s Stick It"