We didn’t realize how timely this film would be when we made it. We all need the adventure, the escapes, we need comedy so badly right now. I’d say this now, I’ll probably change my mind, but everything I do from now on will be about the joy of comedy,” said Bullock, who produced the film along with Liza Chasin and Seth Gordon, in a recent call from Austin. After a few dramatic roles, the part squarely returns Bullock to broad big screen comedy. It’s up to her frequent cover model (Channing Tatum) to save her. “The Lost City,” directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee and opening nationwide March 25 from Paramount, stars Bullock as a romance novelist taken captive by a billionaire (Daniel Radcliffe) convinced her latest book holds the secret to a lost city of treasure.
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There is a strong showing of Austin-affiliated talent premiering new work this year, including Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood,” an animated fusion of memory piece and sci-fi fantasy “The Lost City,” an action-comedy starring self-declared “honorary Austinite” Sandra Bullock and “The Last Movie Stars,” a six-part documentary on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward directed by Ethan Hawke, who was born in Austin.
“And we’re sort of like, ‘Well, you can’t run away - how can you try to effect change by being here? Can you try to support what you need to support and bring up other points of view?’ We feel like we’re trying to do that.” “People say, ‘Oh, how can you live in that place?’” said Janet Pierson, SXSW’s director of film. You just try to stick it out and make your voice be heard and you do what you can,” Linklater said. You go to a rally, you go to a protest, you vote in the primary. A filmmaker long associated with Austin and founder and artistic director of the Austin Film Society, Linklater noted that he has turned down honors from the state of Texas in the past.
“It’s the eternal dilemma of staying in Texas,” said Richard Linklater, of the recent moves by the state government.
The film festival, which convenes in person for the first time since March of 2019, kicks off today with the world premiere of “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the A24 release stars action icon and “Crazy Rich Asians” matriarch Michelle Yeoh and boasts a notable comeback for “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” co-star Ke Huy Quan in a head-spinning, heart-wrenching story of an immigrant family fighting for their survival across multiple dimensions of reality as they try to finish their taxes. Coupled with the somber mood surrounding the war unfolding in Ukraine, this year’s SXSW looks set for a stark contrast between the joyful, embracing events unfolding inside the Paramount and the world outside it. Just a few blocks away is the Texas state Capitol building, where legislators have recently worked to strip residents of abortion rights, voting rights and have attacked trans children and their families.
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As the venue for many of the South By Southwest Film Festival’s most anticipated movies, the theater has been full of wild applause, rowdy cheers, cathartic tears and uproarious laughter. The Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, has been the scene of countless raucous, ecstatically received movie premieres over the years.