SXSW Features Announced

Yesterday SXSW announced their narrative and documentary feature selections for this year's festival. I'm particularly happy to see several of my friends included, such as Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein's Girl Scout documentary Troop 1500, Margaret Brown's Townes Van Zandt documentary Be Here To Love Me, and Mari Marchbanks' ensemble drama Fall To Grace. I'm also really looking forward to the Duplass Brothers' Sundance entry The Puffy Chair, Lexi Alexander's Hooligans (starring Elijah Wood), Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rose (starring Daniel Day-Lewis), among lots of other new films.

Plus I'll get to revisit three of Butt-Numb-A-Thon's greatest hits -- Matthew Vaughn's fantastic directorial debut Layer Cake and Stephen Chow's exhilarating Kung-Fu Hustle (which both premiered at BNAT two months ago), and last year's Cannes Grand Prix winner, Chan-wook Park's Old Boy (which premiered at BNAT '03, and blew everyone's mind).

Overall, it's a really promising line-up (though I must admit Tim and Harry and I were really hoping for Dave McKean's Mirrormask, Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 and Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle, but that's just 'cause we're greedy).