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Friday, March 5, 2010
IFC to offer SXSW films On Demand
Can’t make it to Austin to enjoy all of the beautiful weather and scads of films? Or maybe you’ve got some scheduling conflicts, with two movies you want to see playing at the same time? IFC has you covered (at least partially). In conjunction with the start of the festival, IFC will be presenting On Demand the following SXSW movies: Emmett Malloy’s documentary “The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights,” Austinite Bryan Poyser’s Sundance hit “Lovers of Hate,” and Shane Meadows’ comedy “Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee.”
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Review: Kevin Smith at the Long Center
Yes, he talked about flying while fat. A lot. A whole lot.
Go see writer-director-author-comedian Kevin Smith (“Clerks,” “Chasing Amy” and ugh, “Cop Out”) do one of his in-person gigs, and you’ll see somebody who loves to talk. Dude is so garrulous he makes Quentin Tarantino seems like Calvin Coolidge. A University of Wyoming appearance Smith did a few years ago similar to his gig at the Long Center Thursday night lasted for five hours. Five. Hours.
I lasted three hours Thursday, but Smith got up early Friday morning to do a local radio gig. He still wasn’t done talking, apparently. And if you like the guy, you’re OK with that. For the record, I like the guy. I think he’s funnier than a lot of his movies. I share some of his geeky passions, as a lot of people in the Michael and Susan Dell Hall apparently did. “An Evening with Kevin Smith” was ostensibly a Q&A, but the A’s were sometimes 20 minutes long, rambling, digressive, profane stream-of-consciousness strolls through a very creative man’s mind. An answer to a single question could wander from “Twilight” to Comic-Con, Mitch Albom, George Carlin, Cannes, writing Batman for DC Comics and adapting the Green Hornet for film.
He’s approachable, he’s candid (to a fault), he’s indefatigable, he’s unpretentious, he’s comfortable with who he is. It felt like going to dinner with the guy. But, to paraphrase something my beloved said, I bet his wife is glad when he goes somewhere else to talk. You get the feeling you could ask the guy to run to the store to get some milk and his reply might last the better part of an hour.
And yes, he talked — at length, of course — about recently being booted off a Southwest Airlines (“the Greyhound of the sky”) flight for being too fat. But you knew he would.
Updated Sunday evening. Thanks for the cxes.
