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Friday, September 28, 2007
FantasticFest wrap at Donn’s + ‘Project Runway’ at Moxie
Donn’s Depot was packed to the rafters with genre geeks last night, as the FantasticFest wrap party put a punctuation mark on the Alamo Drafthouse’s splatter series.
Before dropping by the shaggy shindig, we stopped at Moxie at the Compound, where owner Casey McPherson and seamstress-to-the-stars Leslie Bonnell have set up a novel “Project Runway” event. Check out the fashion shows and reruns of the world’s best reality show — cold beverages by the Side Bar — each Wedesday. We talked at length with jewelry maker Mirta Maria Foster, who grew up in Houston not far from our home stomping grounds.
Back to the Depot, we spent considerable time with SXSW’s Matt Dentler — who writes Austin’s best one-man entertainment blog — and his fiance, Jarren Wenderlein, and her longtime buddy Sarah Dvorak. We talked about media and travel and Richmond, Texas. I kept calling Matt “Hank,” because he looks so much like his father, who attended elementary school with me. Matt and Jarren talk almost as much as I do. Good match.
Among the movies at the fest, we kept hearing good things about “Kiltro,” “Time Crimes” (which won the fest’s Best Movie Award) and “Mirageman.”
Jarren Wenderlein and Sarah Dvorak
Filmmakers Andrew van den Houten and Nick Robinson
UT film students Bobby Longoria (no close relation to Eva) and Caitlin Diaz, both from the Valley
Crystal Martinez and Jessica Phillips, who didn’t know a FantasticFest party was going on, but seemed to enjoy themselves anyway
The Austin Convention Center’s Beth Krauss and Nick B. (that’s his nom de plume)
Court-holding Harry Knowles and Paul Thomas Anderson, who screened his new film, “There Will Be Blood.” Recall that he directed “Boogie Nights” and “Magnolia.”
