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Friday, May 12, 2006
‘King’-sized slam
“The King,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt, was filmed in Austin last year and should hit theaters this summer.
Already, though, it’s being dethroned by the friendly fellows at IndieWire, where critic Michael Keresky writes: “Never intent to call out its own trash as trash, ‘The King’ couches its head-slapping melodramatics in turgid metaphor and gross self-importance.”
We like mean. Enjoy the verbal disembowelment here.
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We have a winner
- A gaggle of Austinites - producers Ramona Kelly and David Grosvenor; writer-director-editor Mat Hames; cinematographer Wilson Waggoner; and composer Stephen Barber — are celebrating after their documentary “Last Best Hope: A True Story of Escape, Evasion and Remembrance” won the gold award at the WorldFest International Film Festival in Houston.
A canned description of the movie: “The film, which springs from Abilene resident Bill Grosvenor’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Belgium, examines the transcendent power of the human spirit expressed by ordinary Belgian citizens who came together in extraordinary ways to aid downed American fighter pilots during WWII.”
It airs on KLRU in the fall.
— Wednesdays in June at the Bullock Texas State History Museum have been reserved for great movies made in Texas. It’s John Travolta times two with “Urban Cowboy” and “Michael” (June 7), “Selena” and “The Buddy Holly Story” (June 14), “Slacker” and “Bottle Rocket” (June 21) and “Hud” and “The Last Picture Show” (June 28). Details right here.
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