** A More Perfect Union **
3/10, 7:30, Union
3/14, 9:45, Union
3/18, 10:00, Union
First time Austin filmmakers Stephen and Ari Sheinkin bring you the story of four men who decide to form a new nation.
** Amateur **
3/18, 5:00, Paramount
Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Lowensohn are chased through the streets of New York City in Hal Hartley's new feature.
** Animation in the Nineties **
3/11, 2:00, Dobie
3/13, 12mid, Dobie
3/17, 10:00, Dobie
Animated shorts program curated by LA filmmaker Eric Saks.
** Ballot Measure 9 **
3/12, 10:00, Union
Heather McDonald documentary on the divisive anti-gay 1992 ballot initiative in Oregon.
** The Basketball Diaries **
3/13, 7:00, Dobie
3/17, 8:00, Paramount
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jim Carroll, based on Carroll's autobiography.
** The Buddy Factor **
3/12, 7:30, Village
3/17, 9:45, Hogg
You work in the studio system and your boss is a jerk... what happens when you go over the edge? Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley star. [title changed to Swimming with Sharks]
** Canary Season **
3/12, 9:30, Hogg
3/13, 7:00, Village
3/18, 9:45, Hogg
A true account of the "lost generation" (1960-1990) of Bulgaria.
** Clean, Shaven **
3/13, 9:30, Village
3/18, 10:00, Dobie
First-time director Lodge Kerrigan's disturbing portrait of insanity starring Peter Greene.
** Desert Winds **
3/11, 9:30, Village
3/14, 9:30, Village
3/17, 7:30, Hogg
A girl and a man communicate across 500 miles; a story of love, faith and fear.
** Displaced in the New South
w/ Sons and Daughters and The Middle Passage **
3/12, 4:00, Union
3/16, 7:30, Union
3/18, 7:15, Union
In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. In 1994, there were over 300,000 Asian and Latino residents of the state. The South will never be the same.
** Fall Time **
3/12, 9:30, Paramount
3/14, 9:30, Paramount
3/16, 9:30, Village
A small-town caper goes awry when Mickey Rourke gets involved; also starring Stephen Baldwin, David Arquette, Jason London and Sheryl Lee.
** From the Continent's Edge:
New Independent Films from the Bay Area **
3/12, 7:15, Union
3/17, 7:30, Union
Eight shorts from the Bay Area presented by the Film Arts Foundation.
** The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love **
3/10, 9:30, Dobie
3/16, 10:00, Dobie
A girl meets girl from the wrong side of the tracks love story.
** Little Odessa **
3/10, 7:15, Dobie
3/15, 10:00pm, Dobie
Tim Roth plays a hitman who returns to his old neigh-borhood and tries to rebuild his life with his mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and brother (Edward Furlong).
** Lotto Land **
3/12, 2:00, Dobie
3/14, 10:00, Dobie
3/16, 6:00, Paramount
Two love stories get tangled up when a $27 million Lotto ticket goes unclaimed in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
** Love and Human Remains **
3/12, 9:30, Village
3/15, 9:30, Village
Denys Arcand's story of what happens when you find out someone you know may be a serial killer.
** The Maestro: King of The Cowboy Artists **
3/12, 7:00, Dobie
3/15, 7:45, Dobie
3/18, 5:30, Dobie
Legendary folklorist and filmmaker Blank's new study of a cowboy artist.
** The Man with the Perfect Swing **
3/11, 7:00, Hogg
3/13, 5:30, Paramount
3/15, 7:30, Paramount
Local director-producer team Michael and Angela Hovis' first feature film - the swinger uses a golf club.
** The Mariano Kid **
3/11, 4:00, Dobie
3/14, 5:00, Dobie
3/17, 7:30, Dobie
Immigrating from Cuba to the US, Pepito gets stuck en route in Buenos Aires and finds out what life and love are like in a free society.
** Music Videos & Shorts **
3/12, 12:15, Dobie
3/15, 12mid, Dobie
3/18, 12mid, Dobie
Six music videos and four shorts.
** Omaha (the movie) **
3/14, 7:30, Dobie
3/16, 7:30, Dobie
3/18, 4:30, Paramount
A young man returns from Nepal and finds life in Omaha much the same until he encounters a pair of Colombian jewel thieves.
** Picture of Light **
3/11, 7:15, Village
3/16, 7:30, Village
A hallucinatory tale of a filmmaker's journey to the Arctic in search of the Northern Lights.
** Plutonium Circus **
3/11, 5:00, Village
3/14, 7:00, Village
3/16, 9:45, Paramount
George Ratliff turns documentary filmmaking on its ear in this look at the Department of Energy's Pantex Plant.
** Pop Love **
3/11, 10:00, Union
3/14, 7:30, Union
3/16, 10:00, Union
Murder and messianic delusions mess up a romance.
** The Pornographer **
3/12, 9:45, Hogg
3/14, 7:00, Village
3/17, 5:30, Paramount
Jason Tomlins, Nicholas Cascone and Margot Kidder star in Patrick Duncan's third feature.
** The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre **
3/12, 7:00, Paramount
3/14, 7:30, Paramount
3/15, 7:30, Village
Kim Henkel, screenwriter of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, makes his directorial debut with The Return of the Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, the sequel he always wished to make.
** Rhythm Thief **
3/11, 7:45, Union
3/13, 10:00, Union
3/16, 10:00, Union
Matthew Harrison's edgy New York drama is the no-budget story of a bootleg tape street vendor and his well-protected routine.
** Best of SXSW Film Shorts **
3/10, 10:00, Union
3/15, 7:30, Union
3/18, 2:00, Union
The ten best shorts we have seen all year.
** Shotgun Freeway **
3/11, 6:45, Dobie
3/13, 9:30, Dobie
3/18, 7:45, Dobie
The stars are too many to list in this documentary about LA, its past and its freeways.
** Songs of the Homeland **
3/12, 9:30, Dobie
3/15, 5:15, Dobie
3/18, 3:00, Dobie
Award-winning filmmaker Hector Galan's new documentary on Tejano music.
** Texas Show **
3/10, 12:00, Dobie
3/14, 12:00, Dobie
The best of the Texas Video Festival.
**Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made **
3/10, 7:45, Village
3/16, 8:00, Paramount
Sam Fuller and Jim Jarmusch travel back to the Amazon where Fuller almost made a film with John Wayne in 1954 before the insurance companies balked. Now, he's back to look around and show the natives what he has shot of their grandparents. Directed by Mika Kaurismaeki.
** True Believers: The Musical Family of Rounder Records **
Friday 3/17, 5:30, Dobie
A profile of the record company and its musicians including Tish Hinojosa, Bill Morrissey, Marcia Ball and Irma Thomas.
** Uncommon Ground **
3/11, 3:00, Union
3/13, 7:30, Union
3/18, 4:45, Union
American students travel to South Africa, video cameras in hand, and explore what it is that young people are experiencing and how their concerns can be addressed by society.
** When Pigs Fly **
3/11, 12mid, Dobie
3/13, 4:30, Dobie
3/17, 12mid, Dobie
Marianne Faithfull stars in Sara Driver's surreal first feature, in which ghosts get in the way while looking for a new home.
** Women's Shorts **
3/11, 5:30, Union
Not listed (for some reason)
** Mexican Films of Luis Buñuel **