SXSW Announces 2014 Features Lineup

The South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) has announced their 2014 features lineup today and I must say, I'm kind of on the fence in regards to how I feel about it. On one hand, there's a ton of really exciting films playing here, like The Raid 2, Bad Words, Only Lovers Left Alive, Frank and a couple others. But on the other hand, a lot of these have already been screened at previous festivals. Although, I suppose when it comes to SXSW that's usually the case. If you want premieres you usually need to go to TIFF and Cannes.

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Arlo and Julie

Director/Screenwriter: Steve Mims

A neurotic couple’s obsession with a mysterious puzzle comically unravels their world, disconnecting them from reality and jeopardizing their fragile relationship. 

Cast: Alex Dobrenko, Ashley Spillers, Chris Doubek, Sam Eidson, Hugo Zesati (World Premiere)

Beyond Clueless (UK)

Director: Charlie Lyne

Narrated by cult teen star Fairuza Balk, Beyond Clueless is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics. (World Premiere)

Big Significant Things

Director/Screenwriter: Bryan Reisberg

A week before they move across the country together, Craig lies to his girlfriend in order to go on his first road trip – to the south. Alone.

Cast: Harry Lloyd, Krista Kosonen (World Premiere)

Buzzard

Director/Screenwriter: Joel Potrykus

Devil masks, metal, video games, Mountain Dew, and a Party Zone. Scheming slackers of the world unite and take over! 

Cast: Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson, Alan Longstreet, Rico Bruce Wade (World Premiere)

Creep

Director/Screenwriter: Patrick Brice, Screenwriter: Mark Duplass

When a videographer answers a Craigslist ad for a one-day job in a remote mountain town, he finds his client is not at all what he initially seems.

Cast: Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice (World Premiere)

Cumbres (Heights) (Mexico)

Director/Screenwriter: Gabriel Nuncio

Due a tragedy, two sisters abruptly escape from their hometown in Northern Mexico. Their journey creates a bittersweet relationship marked by pain, guilt and love. 

Cast: Aglae Lingow, Ivanna Michel, Abdul Marcos, Sergio Quiñones, Ganzo Cepeda (U.S. Premiere)

The Dance of Reality (Chile / France)

Director/Screenwriter: Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Dance of Reality is a 2013 independent autobiographical film written, produced and directed by Alejandro Jodorowosky.

Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Cristobal Jodorowsky, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Alejandro Jodorowsky (U.S. Premiere)

Evaporating Borders (USA / Cyprus)

Director: Iva Radivojevic

Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the lives of migrants on the island of Cyprus, it passionately weaves themes of displacement and belonging. (North American Premiere)

Evolution of a Criminal

Director: Darius Clark Monroe

How does a 16 year-old evolve into a bank robber? (World Premiere)

Housebound (New Zealand)

Director/Screenwriter: Gerard Johnstone

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she’s forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

Cast: Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird (World Premiere)

The Infinite Man (Australia)

Director/Screenwriter: Hugh Sullivan

The Infinite Man is a time travel comedy-romance about a man whose attempts to construct the perfect romantic weekend backfire when he traps his lover in an infinite loop. 

Cast: Josh McConville, Hannah Marshall, Alex Dimitriades (World Premiere)

Open Windows (Spain)

Director/Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo

Nick’s a lucky guy – he’s having dinner with Jill Goddard, the hottest actress on earth. Then a guy named Chord calls: dinner’s been canceled. And it’s Jill’s fault. But Chord’s got something better… A 21st Century Rear Window.

Cast: Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey, Neil Maskell, Adam Quintero, Ivan Gonzalez (World Premiere)

Other Months

Director/Screenwriter: Nick Singer

Marking time as an itinerant plumber, and haunted by recurrent nightmares, Nash hungers for the fleeting ecstasies of nightclubs and bedrooms. Other Months is a stark, honest portrait of disconnection—a young man coming to face his paralysis.

Cast: Christopher Bonewitz, Britannie Bond, Emma Morrison-Cohen, Liam Ahern, David Rudi Utter (World Premiere)

The Possibilities Are Endless (UK)

Directors: Edward Lovelace, James Hall

Scottish musician, Edwyn Collins’ world was shattered by a devastating stroke. After fighting back from the brink of death, he discovers that life, love and language mean even more to him that he could ever have imagined. (World Premiere)

Premature

Director/Screenwriter: Dan Beers, Screenwriter: Mathew Harawitz

On the most important day of his young life, a high school senior is forced to relive his failed attempt at losing his virginity over and over again, until he gets it right. 

Cast: John Karna, Katie Findlay, Craig Roberts, Carlson Young, Adam Riegler (World Premiere)

Song from the Forest (Germany)

Director: Michael Obert

A modern epic set between rainforest and skyscrapers. (North American Premiere)

Space Station 76

Director/Screenwriter: Jack Plotnick, Screenwriters: Jennifer Cox, Sam Pancake, Kali Rocha, Michael Stoyanov

Welcome to the future of the past.

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer, Marisa Coughlan, Kylie Rogers (World Premiere)

Surviving Cliffside

Director: Jon Matthews

A West Virginia family faces illness, addiction, and gun violence—while their daughter makes a run for Little Miss West Virginia. (World Premiere)

The Wilderness of James

Director/Screenwriter: Michael Johnson

A restless teenager explores the wilderness of his city while struggling with the absence of his father.

Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Virginia Madsen, Isabelle Fuhrman, Evan Ross, Danny DeVito (World Premiere)

EPISODIC (*New screening section)

COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey

Directors: Brannon Braga, Bill Pope, Screenwriters: Ann Druyan, Steven Soter

COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey is a thrilling, 13-part adventure across the universe of space and time revealed by science, exploring humanity’s heroic quest for a deeper understanding of nature. 

Narrator: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Deadbeat

Director: Troy Miller, Written And Co-Created By: Cody Heller, Brett Konner

Kevin Pacalioglu may have no money and no clue, but he does have one thing–he can see dead people. Faced with New York’s most stubborn ghosts, our hapless medium goes to whatever lengths necessary to help finish their unfinished business. Cast: Tyler Labine, Cat Deeley, Brandon T. Jackson, Lucy DeVito (World Premiere)

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series – Pilot

Director/Screenwriter: Robert Rodriguez

The Gecko Brothers are back. Based on the thrill-ride film, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series is a supernatural crime saga from Creator, Director and EP Robert Rodriguez premiering March 11 on El Rey Network. 

Cast: D.J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza González, Jesse Garcia, Lane Garrison, and Wilmer Valderrama and Don Johnson (World Premiere)

Halt and Catch Fire

Director: Juan Jose Campanella, Screenwriters: Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers

Halt and Catch Fire captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio – a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy – take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Cast: Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Mackenzie Rio Davis, Kerry Bishe, Toby Huss, David Wilson Barnes (World Premiere)

Penny Dreadful (USA / UK)

Directors: John Logan, Juan Antonio Bayona, Screenwriter: John Logan

Penny Dreadful is a psychological horror series that re-imagines literature’s most terrifying characters (Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula) in a whole new light. 

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Danny Sapani, 

Harry Treadaway (World Premiere)

Silicon Valley

Director: Mike Judge, Created By: Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky,

Episode One Written By Mike Judge & John Altschuler & Dave Krinsky.

Episode Two Written By Carson Mell.

The new HBO series Silicon Valley takes a comic look at the modern-day epicenter of the high-tech gold rush, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. 

Cast: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Josh Brener, Christopher Evan Welch, Amanda Crew, Matt Ross (World Premiere)


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