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Friday, April 3, 2009
Actor Lou Perryman, Texan to his bones, dies
Lou Perryman, drawling character actor best known for his roles in Eagle Pennell’s landmark Texas indie features “The Whole Shootin’ Match” (1978) and “Last Night at the Alamo” (1983), was killed this week in a suspected homicide. His body, fatally wounded by an axe, was found Thursday in his Austin home. He was 67.
Perryman and Pennell, who died in 2002, were great friends, striking out in the scrappy dust-bowl of DIY filmmaking in the 1970s.
“(Eagle) did it on the sweat of his brow,” Perryman told me during an interview when Pennell died. “He hustled. We made it up as we went. He brought the best out of people, and that’s the heart of independent film.”
Perryman never made it big, but he enjoyed a run of bit parts in Hollywood fare, including “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, “”Boys Don’t Cry,” “Poltergeist,” “The Blues Brothers” and television’s “Walker, Texas Ranger.”
Perryman in ‘Whole Shootin’ Match’
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PJ Raval’s day in the sun
Austin director and cinematographer PJ Raval has a lot to celebrate these days. “Trouble the Water,” the documentary he shot (not directed), won top honors at Sundance in ‘08 and was nominated for this year’s documentary feature Oscar. Now it’s airing on HBO beginning April 23.
HERE’s the HBO schedule for air times.
But even bigger for Raval and Jay Hodges, also of Austin, is that “Trinidad,” the documentary they co-directed and co-produced, just won the documentary jury award at the Cleveland International Film Festival.
“Trinidad,” a moving, up close and personal chronicle of several lives in the so-called sex-change capital of the world, will screen at 7 p.m. Saturday at Rice University, then it’s off to the Independent Film Festival in Boston on April 26.
Read our interview with Raval and Hodges HERE.
Hodges and Raval
Go to the film’s site HERE, where you can watch the trailer.
Sex-change surgery in award-winning ‘Trinidad’
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