SXSW Announces Terrence Malick’s Song to Song as Opening Film
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Where better to debut your cinematic tribute to the Austin music scene than at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, which is based in Austin and each year runs alongside one of the world’s premiere music industry events? SXSW programmers certainly had this question on their minds when they decided to open this year’s festival with Terrence Malick’s Song to Song, which will be screening on the evening of Friday, March 10, per SXSW’s announcement earlier today.
Featuring a cast as star-spangled as the cosmos explored in The Tree of Life and The Voyage of Time (Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, and Christian Bale will all be making appearances), Malick’s film is one of 2017’s most anticipated titles. We wait with bated breath to see how one of cinema’s preeminent auteurs will bring his trademark ethereality to a new environment, and whether Song to Song will be a valuable addition to the Malick-ian renaissance we’ve been experiencing as of late—within the past six years, the director has doubled the size of his filmography, which spans 40-plus years.
In addition to the opening night film, SXSW also unveiled several other titles that will be screened at the festival, which will run through March 19. These include Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms’ Small Town Crime, starring John Hawkes as an alcoholic ex-cop in pursuit of a killer; Jennifer Reeders’ “coming of age Muslim melodrama” Signature Move; and in the television department, the screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel American Gods.
Below is a list of all the films that were announced along with their respective synopses, courtesy of Deadline.
American Gods
Director: David Slade
Screenwriters: Bryan Fuller, Michael Green
Synopsis: Adapted from Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel, American Gods follows Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) and Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) in a magical world where a battle is brewing between the Old Gods and the New Gods.