SXSW Recap: Days 4- 5 - Crave. Online. You can see by the date that I’m falling a little behind on my recaps. The days of SXSW have gotten ahead of me but I still want to tell you about all the movies I’m watching here. One more final recap to come after this. Grow Up, Tony Phillips. Emily Hagins made her first movie, Pathogen, when she was 1. By 2. 0 and her fourth movie, she’s an old pro.
Grow Up, Tony Phillips is her latest Austin based film. Tony (Tony Vespe) is a high school kid who still goes trick or treating. He doesn’t see anything wrong with it.
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He still makes a costume, so why not go have fun with the kids? It’s a coming of age story for Tony but also a “stick to your guns and don’t just do what the man wants” movie. If you liked her previous My Sucky Teen Romance, you’ll recognize Hagins’ style, still a little homegrown in everyday locations, backyards, school gyms, with lots of party montages, dancing or pillow fort building. It’s a much more confident production, which doesn’t hurt any of the charm. I like Tony and support his projects. His relationship with cousin Pete (AJ Bowen) follows a bit more of a mainstream story arc, the adult he looks up to but Pete ultimately ends up learning more from Tony. It’s fine, doesn’t hurt the film, I just saw it coming.
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Photo Credit: Sam Butler. The Wait. This is definitely a festival movie. I don’t really know what happens in it but it was interesting and I was never bored. Emma (Chloe Sevigny) and Angela (Jena Malone) just lost their mother, but before the coroner can pick up the body, Emma gets a phone call promising her mother will return. So Emma won’t allow the body to be moved and waits for her to come back to life.
The Wait really delivers on its title. There is a lot of waiting! There’s another kid watching from the windows, who also goes to a man’s house to show him disturbing online videos.
There are fires in the nearby woods and some of the red dust lands on some horses. Emma shows her daughter her own birth video. Someone describes a crazy dream about Barbra Streisand going on Oprah. These are some of the interesting diversions that fill The Wait. Emma and Angela both have issues in their relationships they’re dealing with but nothing is explained. That’s rather refreshing, considering it’s probably just spousal abuse or infidelity. It’s way more interesting in vague terms.
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The voice on the phone is confirmed however, so it doesn’t totally leave you hanging. The entire film looked washed out, but I’m guessing that was a projection problem rather than a cinematography problem. Happens a lot at film festivals, playing different houses with minimal tech checks. Twenty Feet from Stardom. With Twenty Feet from Stardom, I have completed my Sundance viewing here at SXSW. This was the last big buzz movie on my radar, though if Escape From Tomorrow shows again that would be a nice bonus.
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Twenty Feet from Stardom is a documentary about the backup singers who actually sing your favorite parts of popular songs. A lot of musicians and background singers are featured in the film but the four featured acts are Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill. As soon as you hear “The Shoop Shoop Song” and “Da Do Run Run” you realize you’re seeing the women who defined much of rock n’ roll. Later you learn Clayton sung as much on “Gimme Shelter” as Mick Jagger, who speaks very highly of her still. The story of these recordings and performances is a history of the music industry, with some unscrupulous behavior (uncredited singles and demeaning wardrobes) but mostly just historic recordings.
Director Morgan Neville knows how to use the music to tell the story. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” plays a pivotal role in Love’s journey. I also like how he manipulates album covers as the singers reveal the true stories behind those records. It’s a fun trip down musical memory lane learning new trivia along the way. Needless to say, I hope there’s a soundtrack, but I don’t care about the original recordings.
Those all exist. I hope the soundtrack isolates the backup tracks so we can just hear the harmonies. I will pay you cash money to only release half of the tracks. You won’t even have to pay the lead singer royalties. Think of the savings! Zero Charisma. A movie about a D& D group raises a lot of red flags. Is this going to be mocking the game and its players? Or worse, is it just not going to get it?
Zero Charisma gets dice based role- playing games and it respects the players, so it’s got that going for it. Scott (Sam Eidson) is a game master whose group loses a player.
When he allows Miles (Garrett Graham) to fill the slot, Miles proves to be a lot mellower and more fun, which the other players like better. Sounds like a cute battle of wills between two geeks, which would have been a much more mainstream way to go. Scott is such an abrasive character though, antihero is putting it lightly. He’s antagonistic, manipulative and just mean. Zero charisma is shy and boring. That’s a different problem.
Shy vs. cool is drama. Mean vs. cool is no contest.
I feel like there’s a better story about a well meaning but socially awkward game master coping with a crowd pleasing but superficial threat, but that’s not this movie. At least Zero Charisma embraces the uphill battle it sets up for itself in challenging us to empathize with Scott or even want to follow him for 9. It doesn’t fall into the trap of “anything sarcastic is automatically funny” so it’s smarter than that. They don’t neuter Scott either by making him a lovable Jack Black type. He screams himself to tears, so the point is taken. This is not an amusing misanthrope.
His family is unsupportive and his mother has been absent his whole life, only showing up to take from him and humiliate him publicly. Writer Andrew Matthews, who co- directs with Katie Graham, understands the psychology of someone like Scott, and calls him on his B. S. I would have explored what happens when a good person is victimized by a more charismatic intruder but this is good too. Photo Credit: Zero Charisma. Check out all of Crave. Online's ongoing coverage of SXSW 2.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey. The Evil Dead, Fede Alvarez's remake of the horror classic. I Give It a Year, starring Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall and Anna Faris. The Act of Killing, documentary about a 1. Indonesian death squad. F*** for Forest, documentary about producing pornography to save the planet.
Milius, documentary about original Red Dawn director John Milius. Some Girl(s), starring Adam Brody, directed by Nei La. Bute. Downloaded, documentary about Napster, directed by Alex Winter. Milo, starring Ken Marino. When Angels Sing, starring Harry Connick Jr.
Willie Nelson. Rewind This, documentary about the VHS home video format. Kiss of the Damned, vampire movie starring Milo Ventimiglia, directed by Xan Cassavetes. The Spectacular Now, starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller.
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