For big-screen thrills and maybe some controversy, another South by Southwest beckons
There's just something that makes a movie particularly right for the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival. It's a feeling, perhaps. A certain rowdiness, where the laughs are a little louder, the action hits a little harder. Think of it as the movies turned way up.
"When you see it, you know it," said Claudette Godfrey, SXSW vice-president of film and TV, now in her second year leading the festival. "It's very hard to describe. I think they have a unique flavor of the storytelling."
Even if it is hard to pin down exactly, there will be many upcoming examples of what makes a movie work well at the annual Austin, Texas, showcase. The festival opens Friday with the world premiere of Doug Liman's remake of 1989's "Road House" starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a former MMA fighter who finds work as the bouncer of a bar in the Florida Keys.
That screening, in the historic Paramount Theatre, will be directly followed by the premiere of "3 Body Problem," the much-anticipated new sci-fi series from , creators of "Game of
