Hey film fans!!! Well the coolest film fest around is getting a bit cooler this year. The first fest was covered HERE!!! And the second one was covered HERE!!!! Why are these festivals cooler than any other in the world? Well... Quite simply because other film festivals don't allow drinking beer and hard alcohol while watching the films. Other film festivals have 'art films' and here... well here are a sampling of some of the 'nightly' themes: CONTROLLED HYSTERIA, NEGLECTED 70's CRIME FILMS, CHUNG CHE KUNG FU, ALL NITE HORROR-THON, BIKER NIGHT, POMPOMS GONE AWRY, EPIC ADVENTURE and much more. This isn't a festival to get autographs... that's not on the agenda. Instead it's a mainline of film love straight into the jugular. It's not about pushing your scripts or hooking up with the 'in' people. It's about sitting and surviving and thriving on films for 9 (NINE) straight days. It's about forming spiritual friendships that can only be sealed through the flames of film. I'll be there through it all, you'll read the drunken ramblings of this pitiful soul. For further information go to the Austin Film Society Website or The Alamo Drafthouse Website or stay tuned here for more. I'll be letting you folks in on all the details as soon as I get them. I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Tarantino to Present Third Austin Festival
The Austin Film Society is pleased to announce that filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will be in Austin from February 19 through 27 to present QTIII, an extravaganza of 30 movies from his personal collection.
Now in its third year, the Quentin Tarantino Festival is becoming a unique, beloved Austin tradition. During the festival, the theater becomes Taratino's extended living room, into which he invites devotees of B movies to appreciate with him all that is campy, gruesome, comic and offbeat in that film form. The selections come from Tarantino's "private collection of 500 or 600 movies," according to his assistant Vicky Lucai.
QTIII will take place at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. The nine days will consist of two nightly movies on weeknights, three on Friday nights and all night movies on Saturday nights. Showtimes, film titles and ticket prices will be announced as soon as the information is available.
QTIII is co-sponsored by the Austin Chronicle. Proceeds from the fest will benefit the Austin Film Society's free cinema series, an annual 42-week series of rarely-seen works of film, presented free of charge to the public.
