| March 3 |
- Black humor, frozen land
- A droll, gruesome cop thriller, chilled Icelandic-style. Plus: What's new this week.
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| March 4 |
- Indie box office: Near-zero Oscar bounce
- "No Country" and "Blood" max out, as old-school art-house flicks rule Manhattan.
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| March 5 |
- The bull market for forgotten films
- A French auteur's 1991 memoir movie and a 1947 "Brit-noir" classic join the growing pile of unlikely art-house resurrections.
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| March 6 |
- Indie directors wrestle teen angels
- Gus Van Sant's dreamlike "Paranoid Park" and David Gordon Green's earnest "Snow Angels" take opposite sides in American cinema's civil war.
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| March 7 |
- Deconstructing "10,000 BC"
- Stephanie Zacharek and Matt Singer talk dinosaurs, furkinis and caveman etiquette in this week's Beyond the Multiplex video.
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| March 8 |
- Has success ruined America's friendliest filmfest?
- No! Bring on the Tex-Mex, tequila and oddball movies -- Bigfoot! Bong jokes! Even a few big stars! -- that make South by Southwest so fun.
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| March 10 |
- No budget, naked bodies, high intensity
- An ultra-indie breakup film recalls "Last Tango" -- and splits SXSW audiences. Also: Showdown in the produce aisle, and a death-house preacher tells all.
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| March 11 |
- "Battle in Seattle" rocks Austin
- The street protests that shaped a new century, recalled in a flawed and exciting docudrama.
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| March 12 |
- How did Harold and Kumar get to Gitmo?
- And how did they end up getting high with the Leader of the Free World? The makers of "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" fill us in at a SXSW round-table interview. (A Salon podcast)
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| March 13 |
- Still has a mouth, and still must scream
- Science-fiction legend Harlan Ellison on the new movie starring himself as a "funny, weird old guy" -- and how the WGA wound up as Hollywood's "bitches."
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| March 14 |
- 3-D is back!
- The magic of stereoscope has returned in movies like "Hannah Montana" and "U23D." Is this a return to the cheeseball glory of the '50s, or just desperation?
- This year's SXSW discoveries
- From America's indie-most film festival, here are 10 exciting new films -- Safe-sex warriors! Harry Potter fans! White guys who rap! -- you really ought to seek out.
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| March 18 |
- "Michael Clayton" on Nazi-grade acid
- "Diving Bell" star Mathieu Amalric dazzles in the dark corporate thriller "Heartbeat Detector." Plus: What the heck do you make of "Funny Games"?
- Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008
- Oscar-winning director of "English Patient" and other high-class literary adaptations dies suddenly in London.
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| March 19 |
- Ménage à trois: The musical!
- An odd, invigorating musical from hot young director Christophe Honoré channels the French New Wave spirit.
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| March 20 |
- Cannes rumors: No Coens, but "Indy 4" and "Sex" likely
- Now "Burn After Reading" probably won't premiere in France. Will Spielberg or Sarah Jessica claim opening night?
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| March 21 |
- The Tyler Perry juggernaut
- How did an African-American playwright, nearly unknown to white America, become one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers?
- A Lynchian nightmare, a hooker grandma and more
- A man who never sleeps, Marianne Faithfull turning tricks and a poisoned Russian spy headline this week's indie releases.
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| March 25 |
- Indie box office: "4 Months" breaks 7 digits
- A break-dancing doc, a Mexican immigration drama and a French musical all look like potential hits.
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| March 27 |
- A thorny indie spring-ucopia!
- A mythic yet intimate yarn of Southern violence and vengeance, a haunting Russian war film, an epic saga of '60s Italy and more.
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| March 28 |
- My Winona, your Winona, our Winona
- Will a reunion with the "Heathers" screenwriter be how Winona Ryder gets her indie groove back?
- The man who murdered John
- In this podcast and interview, Jared Leto talks about transforming himself into Mark David Chapman for the nightmarish "Chapter 27."
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