South by Southwest 1999

Sheila has been making us all jealous for weeks as she planned her trip to Austin for the infamous SXSW. But she promised to keep us updated on all the going-ons.......

Day 1 (Sunday 3/14/99): The theme of the festival seems to be based on sex and full frontal nude scenes. (Of men, and not of women as one may have thought). After seeing my 3rd movie of the day, I was getting a little tired of seeing penis scenes. Really, they aren't that attractive to begin with now are they? The strap on ones that were mostly used in the movies should have been ditched and replaced with the real thing. If you're going to do something, do it real.

Day 2 (Monday 3/15/99): All that said, I must praise a couple of movies which screened at the Paramount:

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole which won the audience over with it's bizarre story line, magnificent acting by the lead roles and twists which made one turn. Imagine if you will a teenage youth in Jersey in the early eighties spending time with his step-father who is going through the transformation to womanhood. The story is full of leaps and bounds to delight and amuse even the most straightlaced.

Then there was Treasure Island. A period piece about two special agents and a dead man, during WWII. Realism with the B&W film helped to really bring this piece to life. Men and women in the forties expressing their sexuality, fetishes and quarks makes this a movie that amazed and brought chuckles to men and women alike. There is something odd, yet likeable about seeing a forties dressed women on all fours, with..........well, I don't want to ruin it for you. You really need to see it for yourself.

The Alamo showed Standing On Fishes. A great movie with appearances by Jason Priestly and Kelsey Grammer. A sculptor is assigned the project of making a prosthetic vagina whilst his girlfriend is trying to get into the movies as an actress. The scene with Kelsey and the rubber vagina had the audience in stitches. The industry people from LA were laughing the hardest during the movie as each scene captured so perfectly the movie world within LA. I'm sure you will be seeing this flick in the mainstream soon

The convention centre showed a Jack Hill movie from the early seventies called The Big Doll House. What a riot. I loved it. It was low budget, incredibly bizaare for its day, funny and now has me making my way to any other screenings around of his movies.

A movie not to see would have to be Frozen Hot which showed at midnight at the Dobie. The only reason I didn't leave was because I was too tired to move and I kept thinking that it has to get better than this. I did however, learn that strap-ons don't just go around the waist. You live and learn from the screen I guess.

Day 3 (Tuesday 3/16/99): I finally saw an excellent movie at the Paramount,  in which everyone kept their clothes on. Contrary to my mother's belief. I am not a prude. I can appreciate the flesh of a live human as much as the next person. I just get a little tired of it, if that is all there is to a movie. The Sky Is Falling was a movie which needed no bare flesh, it needed no sex, it needs to be seen by one and all. This magnificent movie made the audience laugh and cry. Men and women alike were touched by this comedy of the heart. I saw my present and my future in a new light. Just when you think that everything around you is a hopeless mess, something can happen to completely change your life if only you allow it to be. A brillant piece with a superb cast, not to be missed.

On a slightly different note, I was compelled to head to the world premiere of Dusk To Dawn Part 2. Now, I was a little unsure of my feelings regarding part 1, but anyone who enjoyed the first movie, will not be disappointed with the sequel. It was full of blood, action and unusual happenings as one has come to expect from a movie in which Quentin Tarantino is involved. Not for the faint hearted.

Once again the Alamo served up not just fine food and beverages, but a Jack Hill classic from the early seventies. Foxy Brown served up a dish of the most politically incorrect lingo which one could not get away with today. Dark meat, chocolate brown, spook and whitey will give you an idea of the words used in the script. A typical 70's flick showing a little T&A, but just enough to be amusing and not too much so as to be tasteless. Foxy Brown dealt with crooked cops and drug lords. I'm not sure if the scene with the lesbian bar, the castration or the unwashed, smack making rapist ranchers, was the most amusing.

If you are a fan of the 70's, don't miss seeing a Jack Hill classic if given the opportunity.

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