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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Black is Back
One of the most recognizable faces and biggest names at each year’s Austin Film Festival is returning to town this year. Shane Black is one of the sharpest writers in Hollywood, and he crafts stories from the mic on the stage at AFF panels as well as he does behind a typewriter (or however he writes his screenplays). Black took Hollywood by storm with his screenplay for “Lethal Weapon,” a movie that helped revive and reinterpret the buddy movie.
The writer has been to probably more AFFs than any other writer and was recognized with the Distinguished Screenwriter Award in 2006, the year after he brought the wildly entertaining “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a film he both wrote and directed, to Austin in 2005. The panel of Black, Sydney Pollack and David Milch in ‘06 was one of the best we’ve seen at the fest. Expect to be enlightened and entertained by this talent who always shoots-from-the-hip.
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Special AFS screenings
Tickets are free, first-come-first-served. Get them, and learn about the films and filmmakers, HERE.
All shows at the Alamo South:
Sean Baker presents “Take Out” at 7 p.m. Aug. 20
Cheryl Dunye screens “The Watermelon Woman” at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 20
Juan Carlos Zaldivar presents “90 Miles” at 7 p.m. Aug. 21
And take an early look at AFS’ Essential Cinema Series “The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema,” running Sept 9 — Oct. 14. Details HERE.
