SXSW - day 2

Today, we saw a few movies and ate at a really neat Moroccan restaurant where I rediscovered my distaste for hummus.

We only saw two movies today though. We were shut out of two others ("The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" and "The Roost," which was the midnight movie (read: horror - again) at the Alamo).

Two of the

Alamo

movie theaters here - the downtown and the south - are involved in the festival. We've only been to the downtown. We didn't get into "The Fearless Freaks" at the south the other day. This movie theater is pretty cool. I'm not sure it's as cool as the people who work there think it is but it is pretty cool. You go into the theater and it's lines of chairs with sort of bench tables in front of you. You can order food and beer (by the bucket too - woohoo). I'm a big bucket of beer fan. Apparently they also have theme nights which look pretty awesome (Marcia Brady Fetish Night?).

Today's movies:

"

Strange Fruit

" was a fairly shabby documentary. The filmmaker took a very interesting subject and muddled it with not by not really telling his story well enough, not shooting enough footage and with poor choices of music to go along with his images. There were other problems too but suffice it to say that the movie just didn't do the job it set out to do.

Childstar

" was a look at the world of child acting with a movie starring Jennifer Jason Leigh (so nice) and the director and featuring (among others) Eric Stoltz and Dave Foley. It was funny - but not too much - and it was bittersweet - but not too much. All in all though I liked it. It's worth seeing if only to check out Eric Stoltz's awesomely bad band.