The 17th Annual Austin Film Festival and Conference is now underway! From Oct. 21-28, the Austin Film Festival will be host to filmmakers, actors, screenwriters, industry pros, and people who just love film. One man (Executive Writer - Don Simpson) from the Smells Like Screen Spirit crew has single handedly completed the task of reviewing 9 of the films screening at Aff 2010 in the next week, to provide a sneak preview just for you. Stay tuned for further coverage of the festival throughout the next week; including interviews, tweets and many more reviews. _____________________________________________ Conviction (2010) | Review "...Goldwyn takes a few too many dramatic shortcuts and abides all too closely to preexisting formulas and conventions. There is no narrative depth or subtext; what you see is exactly what you get. The only real chance that Goldwyn takes is in casting Rockwell against type (Swank is cast in an all too predictable and standard...
- 10/21/2010
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Directors: Jay Gianukos, Susan Barnes Orin Kennedy and Bernardo Puccio decide to commemorate their 30-plus year relationship by erecting a marble monument by the lake at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Gay marriage being impossible at the time, the monument would be Kennedy and Puccio’s way to historically document that they have loved each other for over 30 years. As part of the package deal at Hollywood Forever, a Life Story Documentary is produced as a way to fill in the gap between the date of birth and date of death. Orin and Bernardo hire filmmaker Jay Gianukos to make their Life Story Documentary. Typically the documentary is saved to be shown during the funeral; but Kennedy and Puccio decide to add a twist, screening their Life Story Documentary at the unveiling of their monument for their friends and family to view. During their Life Story Documentary, Kennedy and Puccio reminisce...
- 10/20/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
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