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Monday, December 21, 2009
Tarantino to become ‘honorary Texan’
Quentin Tarantino will be crowned (cowboy-hatted?) an “honorary Texan” during the 10th annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards on March 11 at Austin Studios.
Tarantino joins fellow inductees Michael Nesmith — a Houston native, film producer and former member of the Monkees — who will receive the Warren Skaaren Lifetime Achievement Award, and San Antonio-born actor Bruce McGill, who played D-Day in “Animal House,” as well as co-starring in “Silkwood,” “Courage Under Fire” and “The Insider.”
Tarantino’s ties to Texas, namely Austin, run deep. He’s longtime pals with Richard Linklater and has collaborated with Robert Rodriguez (“From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Grindhouse”). His legendary QT Fest — a week of cult, classic and drive-in favorites — was born in Austin theaters and Tarantino is an advisory board member at the Austin Film Society.
The hall of fame awards “recognize outstanding actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, producers and films from, influenced or inspired by the Lone Star State.”
For details and tickets to the event, go HERE.
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Noteworthy DVDs released 12/22/09
PICK OF THE WEEK
“(500) Days Of Summer” (Fox): Worth rewatching just for the blissed-out Hall & Oates musical sequence, the movie is a real treat until it (arguably) betrays its entire message in the final scenes.
OTHER TOP PICKS
“Extract” (Walt Disney / Miramax): Mike Judge bounces back from the experience of “Idiocracy” — if not to the heights of “Office Space,” then at least high enough for fans to hope he’ll keep returning to the places where real people work in search of comedy.
“It Might Get Loud” (Sony): Jimmy Page, the Edge, and Jack White get together to trade riffs and wax philosophical about rock-and-roll’s favorite instrument. (No, Jimmy, not the dulcimer.)
FRESH FROM THE MULTIPLEX
“All About Steve” (Fox); “Beyond A Reasonable Doubt” (Anchor Bay)
ARTHOUSE/FOREIGN
Stanley Tucci’s Theo Van Gogh remake “Blind Date” (E1 Entertainment); “The Katemquin Films Collection, Vol. 1,” “Still Standing: The New Films of Dariush Mehrjui,” “Wadja, Man of Cinema,” “The Valley of the Bees” “Witches’ Hammer” (Facets)
FROM THE VAULTS
“Flowers in the Attic,” “The Philadelphia Experiment” (Anchor Bay)
DOCUMENTARIES
“In Search of Mozart” (Microcinema); “Motherland” (Vanguard)
BEST OF TV
“Chuck” Season 2 (Warner Bros.); “Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Dark Side” (Fox); “Kyle XY” Season 3, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” Season 3 (Walt Disney); “Taxi” Final Season (Paramount)
CULT CORNER
“Maid-Droid” (Cinema Epoch)
STRAIGHT(ISH) TO VIDEO
“American Pie: The Book of Love” (Universal); “Ghost Machine” (Anchor Bay); “Noble Things” (Monarch); Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio in “Staten Island” (National Entertainment Media); Victor Garber in “Torso” (E1 Entertainment)
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Fantastic Fest wants to see your movie
Austin’s own Fantastic Fest, the biggest genre film festival in the country, is accepting submissions to its 2010 edition, Sept. 23 — 30.
Details, rules HERE.
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