Everybody Wants Some, from Richard Linklater, will debut at SXSW
With a whopping 139 movies in just 9 days there will be lots see at this year’s South By Southwest Festival but one of the more anticipated films will Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some, a semi-sequel to his 1993 breakthrough Dazed & Confused. This is his first feature since last year’s Oscar-winning Boyhood. Pee-Wee Herman plans to stage yet another comeback, this time with a new feature film (Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday) that will debut at SXSW before hitting Netflix exclusively. Last year’s Toronto International Film Festival opener Demolition, from Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will see its U.S. debut here. In the coming weeks SXSW will also announce the films to be shown in the Midnighters, Festival Favorites, and Special Events sections as well as the Short Film Program.
Other films we’ll be keeping our eye on are Matthew A. Cherry’s 9 Rides, about an Uber driver gets life changing news on the busiest night of the year, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru, a documentary with unprecedented access into self-help multi-millionaire Tony Robbins from Joe Berlinger and Midnight Special, about a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers, from Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter).
The whole thing kicks off March 11th.
The full lineup is below:
Narrative Feature Competition
The Arbalest
Before the Sun Explodes
Claire in Motion
collective:unconscious
Donald Cried
Hunter Gatherer
Miss Stevens
The Other Half
A Stray
Trespecos
Documentary Feature Competition
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
Alive and Kicking
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Goodnight Brooklyn – The Story of Death by Audio
The Liberators
Orange Sunshine
Ovarian Psycos
The Seer
The Space in Between – Marina Abramovic and Brazil
TOWER
Headliners
Demolition
Don’t Think Twice
Everybody Wants Some
Hardcore Henry
In a Valley of Violence
Midnight Special
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Narrative Spotlight
9 Rides
Another Evil
BLACK
Black Mountain Poets
From Nowhere
I Am Not a Serial Killer
Jean of the Joneses
Long Nights Short Mornings
The Master Cleanse
My Blind Brother
Rainbow Time
Shovel Buddies
Slash
Suntan
The Trust
The Waiting
War on Everyone
Documentary Spotlight
Asperger’s Are Us
The Bandit
Beware of Slenderman
Chicken People
The Dwarvenaut
Fantastic Lies
Hit It Hard
The Hollywood Shorties
Insatiable: The Homaru Cantu Story
Learning To See
Mr. Gaga
Seven Songs for a Long Life
Silicon Cowboys
The Slippers
Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America’s Public Universities
Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
Visions
The Alchemist Cookbook
American Fable
Baby Bump
I Am Belfast
In Pursuit of Silence
Jules and Dolores
Karaoke Crazies
Little Sister
LOEV
My Beautiful Broken Brain
Operator
Spaceship
Teenage Cocktail
Under the Sun
Episodic
Outcast
Preacher
Search Party
Vice Principals
You Me Her
24 Beats Per Second
The American Epic Sessions
And Punching the Clown
The Art of Organized Noize
Artist & Repertoire
BANG! The Bert Berns Story
Born to Be Blue
Gary Numan: Android in La La Land
Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
I Go Back Home — Jimmy Scott
Miles Ahead
Miss Sharon Jones!
A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story
Soundbreaking — Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music
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