Austin Film Festival 2008

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Screenings
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Thursday, October 16th
7:00 PM
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Oliver Stone | Opening Night Film | 124 min.
Paramount + add to cal
Saturday, October 18th
2:45 PM
Harold Brodie | Narrative Feature Competition | 90 min.
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Alamo Drafthouse Ritz + add to cal
6:30 PM
Paul Schrader | Marquee | 106 min.
Paramount + add to cal
9:15 PM
Jared Drake | Comedy Vanguard | 90 min.
Paramount + add to cal
Sunday, October 19th
5:15 PM
Monica Long Ross, Clayton Brown | Documentary Feature Competition | 73 min.
Hideout + add to cal
7:15 PM
Eric Bricker | Documentary Feature Competition | 83 min.
Arbor + add to cal
9:30 PM
Stefan Forbes | Marquee | 86 min.
Arbor + add to cal
Tuesday, October 21st
7:30 PM
Charlie Kaufman | Marquee | 124 min.
Paramount + add to cal
show details ratings and reviews
rating title date reviewed

Rated 5.0/5 Stars
4.0 | 28 rating

Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman | Marquee
seriously great film!
10/21/2008

Rated 3.0/5 Stars
3.5 | 6 rating

Ghost Notes
Geoffrey Frost | Short Films
Sweet. The mix of what was spelled our clearly and what was left to fill in was uneven. Unbelievable: A jazz drummer letting a school's portable phonograph needle touch his vinyl!
10/20/2008

Rated 3.0/5 Stars
3.7 | 9 rating

The Atom Smashers
Monica Long Ross, Clayton Brown | Documentary Feature Competition
a bit more drama would have been good, and more explanation of the Higgs boson particle
10/20/2008
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