The following films played Saturday, March 10th as part of the SXSW Film Festival: Campaign - This Japanese doc follows the travails of a "parachute" candidate for the Kawasaki city council. He's called that because he moved to the city specifically to run for office through his allegiance to the powerful LDP party. Japan is as big a character as the candidate, as the candid shots of life there offer revealing snippets of the......

SXSW Film Festival recently released their lineup of feature films to be screened this year. Check out the full roster after the jump. LONE STAR STATES Forfeit Directed by Andrew Shea, written by John Rafter Lee. Featuring: Billy Burke, Sherry Stringfield, Gregory Itzin, Wayne Knight. An ex-con tries to manage his way back into society, reunite with his high school sweetheart, and commit one more crime. (World Premiere) Inside the Circle Directed by Marcy......

It seems likely that many of you hold an academic interest in the rendering of Winona Ryder's bare, fruitful bosom by the team of artists who collaborated with Richard Linklater on his lauded animated release, A Scanner Darkly. If this accompanies a more overarching curiosity about the artistic process and a desire to see original sketches and prints by the same illustrators, you might wanna motorscooter over to the AAVA tonight for the opening of......

“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs...And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.” - Rush Limbaugh, October 5th 1995 Adapted by Austinite Richard Linklater from Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel, A Scanner Darkly is the story of......

On Wednesday night, The Austin Film Society hosted a little over one thousand friends to watch Austin's very own premiere of A Scanner Darkly at the Paramount Theatre, with a post-screen party down the street at The Austin Museum of Art. Originally written by Philip K. Dick in the late 1970’s and adapted to the screen by Austin's own Richard Linklater, A Scanner Darkly is an eerie, yet hilarious, film of drugs, paranoia and......

Let's be honest: we have no idea what to expect from Rick Linklater's newest project A Scanner Darkly. While the source material by Philip K. Dick has a strong cult following, we traditionally don't love science fiction. And while we enjoyed the Rotoscoping technique Linklater used on Waking Life, it may be strange to use it on a less arty, more linear film. It is also amazing that no reports of troubled behavior emerged......

We’re a little morbidly fascinated with JT LeRoy — not because we like overwrought coming-of-age stories, but because we love hoaxes. Similarly, we’re a little fascinated with Asia Argento — not because we like self-important starlets, but because we love the cult of celebrity. So, when the two came together to produce the film version of LeRoy’s second novel, we have to admit, we were intrigued. We didn’t expect The Heart is Deceitful Above......