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Monday, October 22, 2007
Wanted: skinny boy for harrowing dramatic film
There’s an open casting call Nov. 3 in Austin for a lead role in the new feature film “The Road.” They’re looking for white boys, ages 7-10, with a thin/slight build.
The film stars Viggo Mortensen and will be directed by John Hillcoat (“The Proposition”). It’s an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.
The film will shoot in February 2008, with location to be determined. No experience necessary to audition. Auditions are at The Clarion Inn & Suites, 2200 IH-35 South Austin.
For more info, or to submit a photo in advance, email Vicky Boone at vickyboone@gmail.com. Or call 786-6271.
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‘Blade Runner’: back, beautiful, and here
After seemingly nine previous “director’s cuts,” Ridley Scott has settled on “Blade Runner: The Final Cut,” which recently played New York and Los Angeles to big biz, and the crowds weren’t all fanboys and cultists.
And don’t expect only the Ain’t It Cool crowd to materialize when the super-spruced “Final Cut” plays the Paramount Theatre for 10 screenings Nov. 18 — 23.
Four minutes of unseen footage have been added to the seminal sci-fi opus. It now runs 12 hours.
Dystopia never sparkled so indelibly, so incredibly.
UT’s Brazil Week gets a shot with a free screening of Joel Zito Araújo’s 2004 drama “Filhas do Vento (Daughters of the Wind)” at 8 p.m. Friday in the Texas Union Theatre at UT.
About the movie:
A multigenerational cast of talented black actors to explore, among other things, the obstacles facing black performers in Brazil’s film and television industries. While race is the film’s central theme, this sexy drama also looks at sexual values, family relationships, and the cultural divide between urban and rural Brazil.
New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker screens and discusses her doc “By Invitation Only” — which looks at “the insular world of the elite, white Carnival societies and debutante balls of Mardi Gras” — at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in the CMA Auditorium (2.320) at UT. It’s free.
The film premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS stations nationwide. The film recently won Best Documentary at the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.
