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December 4, 2007

Bonfires in Austin

Last night saw a gaggle of filmmakers tromping through the woods of East Austin at midnight, trying to find the conflagration upon which Cinematexas would be given its Viking Funeral. I love experiences like that. Getting lost with friends in the most unlikely places.

It was great to hang out with Ronnie again, too, and to see Frownland again on the big screen. That movie - it's the real deal. For a really terrific response to it, check out AFS Director Of Programming Chale Nafus' review of Sunday night's screening. An excerpt:

"FROWNLAND? I never want to see it again, not even a clip. But I will highly recommend it to most of my friends and every film-lover – not as a masochistic exercise but as a film that challenges some of the sacred tenets of humanism and potentially turns the viewer into a raving madman. Few works of art today can elicit such a radical response from our jaded culture."

And pairing Ronnie's film with Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will Be OK was a nice coup de grace, as well: Cinematexas, I hardly knew thee, but it was nice to see you go out in style.

Posted by David Lowery at December 4, 2007 12:26 AM