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Inside Movies
Thursday, January 12, 2006• Basking in the critical triumph of her doc 'Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt' (playing the Alamo South), Austin filmmaker Margaret Brown recently returned from Nashville, where she produced the new music video for Cat Power. The racy video for Power's song 'Living Proof' is directed by the intractably avant Harmony Korine ('Gummo,' 'Julien Donkey Boy') and shot by 'Be Here to Love Me' and 'Slacker' cameraman Lee Daniel. Korine is showing the video to MTV this week in London, with hopes the channel will air it. — C.G.
• Austin filmmaker (and former American-Statesman staffer) Scott Nyerges' experimental short video 'Flow' is screening at the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands this month. The video premiered last fall at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. 'Flow' blends live video footage and hand-painted filmstrips for an abstract impression of the seasonal flow of creeks and rivers in Central Texas, Nyerges says. His previous video 'Means and Meditations' played last year at Rotterdam and the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. —C.G.
• Since the Austin Music Network went kaput last September, many shows lost their home. But some have found fresh ways to get themselves seen. One of those is the 'Austin Music Network Student Filmmakers Showcase,' a weekly 'magazine-style' showcase for short films by students. The entire series can now be downloaded from an online archive at www.amnsfs.com. That's not all: Starting Jan. 30, the show will play student short films from around the world as a 'vodcast' — or video podcast — for Apple's iTunes and video iPods. Download the show's new pilot at www.sfsTVvod.com. — C.G.
• The reels keep running at the Paramount Theatre, the classiest venue in town. Rob Reiner's cult favorite 'The Princess Bride' gets goofy tonight, Friday and Sunday. In two weeks, it's a tribute to the Coen brothers, with some fighting thrown in. The Coens' 'Raising Arizona,' 'Miller's Crossing' and 'Barton Fink' play a rotating schedule Jan. 22-29. Two of the screenings are paired with David Fincher's indelible 'Fight Club' for an odd one-two punch. Details at www.austintheatre.org. — C.G.
• The early deadline for submitting short films to the annual McGuffin Film Festival is Jan. 25. Get guidelines and watch past winners at www.mcguffinfestival.com. The festival happens Feb. 17 at the Texas Union Theater. — C.G.
