The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (Canada)Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 7 PMThe last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak live on the verge of change in 1922. As the father is trying to resist encroachments upon his family and culture, a group of Danish scientists arrive to study and record his way of life. Explorer/adventurer Knud Rasmussen pays Avva a visit, accompanied by two fellow Danes: trader......

En El Hoyo | In the Pit (México)Bob Bullock Texas State Museum, 7 PMAccording to a Mexican legend, the devil asks for one soul for every bridge that is built, as a guarantee for the bridge’s durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo’s documentary In the Pit this old legend takes on new meaning. Made of more than 17 kilometers of asphalt, the Second Deck is a major urban project set to transform Mexico City. The most......

Madeinusa (Peru, Spain)7 PM, Regal Metropolitan Theater #14Madeinusa is a girl who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) until Easter Sunday, in which the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days, sin does not......

*This post comes from new Austinist contributor Matthew DeWitt.* It’s topical downer time at Cine Las Americas this weekend, with De Nadie (No One) likely to take home honors for Most Depressing Viewing Experience. The film takes a unique look at the immigration controversy—Central Americans crossing through Mexico to get to the U.S. Many don’t even make it to the US border, succumbing to exposure, starvation, robbery, or (at best) arrest and deportation by......

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Onion.* As our mother told us, never turn down the chance to see a movie titled "In Bed." In other words: Yes, you perv, there is sex in this film. Two strangers who meet at a party are so hot for each other that they decide to rent a tastefully decorated red motel room. (There’s some talk about how nasty the place is, but we’d take......

FRIDAY [21] [music] Sons of Hercules and The Bad Rackets at Woody's South (link) [music] Those Peabodys, Grand Champeen, Birds of Avalon (ex-Cherry Valence), Man Eaters of Tsavo at Emo's (link) [music] The Radiators at The Parish (link) [music] Blue October w/ People In Planes and Bril at Stubb's (link) [music] The Shells CD Release at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm) (link) [lecture] The Texas Observer presents David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How......

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Onion.* Despite its misleading title, La Sagrada Familia has almost nothing to do with the Gaudi cathedral in Barcelona, darling of hash-smoking exchange students everywhere. Instead, you get a family of attractive Chileans, in the process of spending Easter weekend at their beach house nestled on top of a cliff. Unfortunately for them, their little family nest is about to erupt in something other than baby......

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Joey Seiler.* Trespassing, the first feature-length documentary directed by Carlos DeMenezes, follows the Western Shoshone’s fight against an attempt to turn the Ward Valley in California into a nuclear dumping ground. The debate began almost eight years ago, but the real story of displacement and ecological apathy remains sadly relevant. DeMenezes shapes the nuclear protest into a frame to discuss everything from the sovereignty of indigenous people......

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Reed.* Whisky is a subtle powerhouse of layered storytelling from Uruguayan directors, Juan Pablo Rubella and Pablo Stoll (25 WATTS). Marta Acuna is a stoic-faced manager in a sock factory, so ingrained with the daily routine of her 60-year-old bachelor boss, Jacobo Koller, they barely speak. When he awkwardly asks her to pose as his wife during his brother’s upcoming visit, she agrees without hesitation. Brother......