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It's time again for the Austin Chronicle's yearly readers' poll. Please, go ahea...
It's time again for the Austin Chronicle's yearly readers' poll. Please, go ahead and cast your vote here, and keep us in mind for the relevant categories. I Luv Video, Spiderhouse Cafe, EcoClean and ColdTowne Theater have been slinging DVDs, coffee, dry cleaning and comedy for years and are all locally owned and operated.
Starting Monday, Aug. 18, The Austin Chronicle & I Luv Video will be bringing
you a week of full-throated debate on movie adaptations of the work of William Shakespeare. And you're invited to take part, by commenting on
our entries and then voting for the winner at the end of each day's
battle. Sweetening the deal even further: Participating commenters will
be eligible for prizes like movie passes and swag.
Then, be sure to join us Thursday, Aug. 28, at Spider House for a Chronicle-sponsored
happy hour, featuring lively discussion, film trivia, the screening of
a movie chosen by the debate's winner, and a chance to tell Chronicle combatants Josh Rosenblatt & Kimberley Jones
where, exactly, they can stick it.
Timed to the release of Sundance satire Hamlet 2 (and in
keeping with the aforementioned emotionally
tormented-white-men-in-tights theme), we've decided to take as our next
topic movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare.
So log on to austinchronicle.com/filmfight
Aug. 18-22, and join us as we parse the wonders and torments of the
Bard on film: from the windblown fields of Olivier's Agincourt to the
windblown fields of Branagh's Agincourt, from the sour gloom of
Olivier's Denmark to the sour gloom of Branagh's Denmark, from the high
treachery of Olivier's England to the high ... oh, to hell with it –
you get the idea.
PLUS - Bernie Mac - The New Invisible Man - Tom Cruise: The Twilight Years - Paris Hilton VS National Lampoon - The Misunderstood Lieutenant - Doris Day - Tropic Thunder VS The Mentally Challenged - Billy Bob Thornton, Son of a Hundred Maniacs - AND MORE!!!
Finally, a Holocaust film that manages to be intelligently engaging
without making every victim a saint & relying on overly-established
cinematic views of the Nazi concentration camps. Director Ruzowitzky
(who also helmed the fine German horror film, Anatomy, 2000) even manages to let humor seep in naturally, as a mere consequence of life, not as a defilement of historic reverence...
