{"id":2654,"date":"2015-03-13T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:04:22","slug":"5-movies-to-see-at-sxsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/5-movies-to-see-at-sxsw\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Movies to See at SXSW"},"content":{"rendered":"

SXSW kicks\u00a0off this weekend. Before the film showcase’s wrap on March 21, over 100 movies will be screened in a variety of categories, many of them world premieres. Just like any festival of similar\u00a0magnitude, however, navigating such an extensive program can be overwhelming. But we are here to help. If you are in Austin and only have time for 5 movies, these are good bets:<\/p>\n

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[small_title title=”EX MACHINA”]<\/p>\n

\"EXMACHINA\"<\/p>\n

Director:<\/b> Alex Garland
\nStarring:<\/b> Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander<\/p>\n

Ava, a more advanced (and physically present) artificial intelligence system than last year’s Scarlett Johansson-voiced\u00a0Her<\/em>, is at the center of this smart and accomplished sci-fi drama, directed by 28 Days Later<\/em> screenwriter Alex Garland.<\/p>\n

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[small_title title=”7 CHINESE BROTHERS”]<\/p>\n

\"7-chinese-brothers\"<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0<\/b>Bob Byington
\nStarring:<\/b>\u00a0Jason Schwartzman, Tunde Adebimpe, Eleanore Pienta, Stephen Root, and Olympia Dukakis<\/p>\n

The movie’s promotional material explicitly states the fact that Jason Schwartzman, who plays the movie’s main character Larry, is in every of the movie’s scenes. Which is not a bad thing, because\u00a0Schwartzman turns in\u00a0a thoughtful, pleasant performance as a\u00a0a down-on-his-luck quasi-alcoholic\u00a0attempting to finely balance his shaky life.<\/p>\n

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[small_title title=”HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS”]<\/p>\n

\"F54992\"<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0<\/b>Michael Showalter
\nStarring:<\/b>\u00a0Sally Field, Max Greenfield<\/p>\n

Sally Field’s character Doris\u00a0deals with retirement-age loneliness be embarking on a romantic relationship with her young coworker played by Max Greenfield in Michael Schowalter’s unusual, but compelling, comedy-drama.<\/p>\n

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[small_title title=”THE GRIEF OF OTHERS”]<\/p>\n

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Director: <\/b>Patrick Wang
\nStarring:<\/b>\u00a0Wendy Moniz,\u00a0Trevor St. John, Rachel Dratch<\/p>\n

Patrick Wang’s criminally underseen but exquisite debut In The Family<\/em>\u00a0is one of the best independent films in\u00a0recent years. For his second feature-length movie, Wang once again tackles loss, as The Grief of Others<\/em> deals with themes of a family grieving after the\u00a0death\u00a0of their son, just 57 hours after his birth.<\/p>\n

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[small_title title=”MANIA DAYS”]<\/p>\n

\"Luke+Kirby+Mania+Days+Films+NYC+Part+3+9OwWHV46Yjml\"<\/p>\n

Director: <\/b>Paul Dalio
\nStarring:<\/b>\u00a0Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby<\/p>\n

Katie Holmes plays a bipolar poet named Carla, who falls for a man who shares her mental disorded\u00a0while getting treatment in a hospital. This is Holmes’ return to the indie circuit, one she is making with a brave and mature performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SXSW kicks\u00a0off this weekend. Before the film showcase’s wrap on March 21, over 100 movies will be screened in a variety of categories, many of them world premieres. Just like any festival of similar\u00a0magnitude, however, navigating such an extensive program can be overwhelming. But we are here to help. If you are in Austin and only have time for 5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-alicia-vikander","tag-domhnall-gleeson","tag-ex-machina","tag-jason-schwartzman","tag-katie-holmes","tag-olympia-dukakis","tag-oscar-isaac","tag-patrick-wang","tag-sxsw"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-GO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}