How SXSW 2013 Helped Define the "Austin Movie"

Sometimes, a location stops being a setting and starts being a character. You see this happen to New York City in the films of Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, and you see it happen to Los Angeles in the films of Paul Thomas Anderson and Robert Altman, to give you just two examples. The nature of those cities can be seen and (metaphorically) smelled and felt in every frame of movies like Manhattan and Magnolia, Short Cuts and Taxi Driver. After watching a "New York movie" or an "L.A. Movie," audiences can actually feel like they've been to those cities. So what does an "Austin movie" feel like? Attending the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas gives you a great chance to see the city's quickly growing independent film community in action...
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Jacob S. Hall 19 Mar, 2013
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