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Little Rock Film Festival 2009: Donahue talks

Raving about the city's downtown restoration to a glammed up crowd at the Clinton Library Gala, Phil Donahue gave the keynote address for the Little Rock Film Festival declaring "You look like you bought a pretty prom dress." The legendary talk show host had screened his documentary Body of War earlier in the day. Also, awards were distributed for best documentary The Way We Get By and best narrative That Evening Sun. Festival Organizers Craig and Brent Renaud with Phil DonahueThe Way We Get ByDirector Aron Gaudet follows three senior citizens who voluntarily spend their days, with others, greeting American troops as they arrive at...  read more

Little Rock Film Festival 2009

First thing to do when arriving to the Little Rock Film Festival (if the films and parties haven't started) is to walk down Markham St. to The Flying Fish restaurant, just a rock's throw from the Bill Clinton Library. While waiting in line to order (there is ALWAYS a line) you giggle at the hundreds of photos of customers with fish that are posted on the wall . Then you grab a beer from the fridge and order from a choice of catfish, shrimp, oysters, frog legs, crawfish, calamari--fried, grilled, boiled, whatever. Today I kept it simple with a shrimp cocktail, a...  read more

The Top Five Movies to See at the Atlanta Film Festival 2009

A film festival is an unpredictable affair. Most of the time, you don’t really get a sense of what’s buzzy until you’re on the ground talking to fellow festivalgoers. Or, often, some of your favorite films end up being ones you just stumbled into. Maybe you have a gap between two preferred choices and a film just happens to fit the slot, so you go see it on a whim. Or maybe you can’t get into the film you wanted to see, but another one is showing in the next theater over. The serendipitous nature is part of what makes...  read more

SXSW 2009: More Film Reviews

Hal Holbrook & Barry Corbin in That Evening SunAs usual, the number of films seen during SXSW were in direct competition with the sum of hours slept, the quantity of BBQ consumed, the volume of alcoholic beverages imbibed, the length of lines endured and the number of parties partaken (Rachael Ray's was cool). And the music! I lost count of all the bands I saw, but I did enjoy: Bruce Robison at the Gibson Guitar party, the Meat Puppets at the Nat Geo taping, The Manichean at the Justice Records party, Theresa Andersson at the Boundless rooftop party and, of...  read more