Of course, you don't necessarily come to SXSW to see the sort of stuff you'll be seeing at your local multiplex a month or so from now – though these things do stir up a fervor among this particular festival's attendees, sometimes to the point of inside-the-bubble dizziness. But what this annual Austin get-together, now 25 years strong and 10 years into Pierson's tenure as film-programming director, is best known for is a particular kind of microbudgeted American independent film, often intimate and always ragged, jagged, rough in an artisanal, homemade way.
See my SXSW review from 2015
and the full article from Peter Travers
Go to SXSW when you have the chance - and do it sooner rather than later, because prices are going up faster than the Austin skyline.
No comments:
Post a Comment