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   The Innkeepers: Film Review

   3:48 pm 3/14/2011

   • by John DeFore

   Director-screenwriter Ti West exhibits less stylistic fetishism with his latest film while remaining solidly outside of contemporary fashion, which results in a largely entertaining picture with too few scares to satisfy the multiplex crowd.Read more

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2. Fambul Tok: Film Review

   2:00 pm 3/14/2011

   • by John DeFore

   Director Sara Terry brings a career's worth of journalism experience to this assured filmmaking debut that examines John Caulker's Fambul Tok organization, which addresses the deep wounds created by a decade of civil war in Sierra Leone.Read more

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3. SXSW Deal Update: A Lot of Action, Not a Lot of Closure

   1:26 pm 3/14/2011

   • by Jay Fernandez

   As Monday draws to a close only "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" has a deal with a number of features close.Read more

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   Conan O'Brien Can't Stop: Film Review

   9:57 pm 3/13/2011

   • by John DeFore

   The late-night host is funnier than ever in a thoroughly entertaining doc about his post-"Tonight Show" tour, "Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television."Read more

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   Conan O'Brien Reluctantly Attends Premiere of Post-'Tonight Show' Doc

   7:27 pm 3/13/2011

   • by Kimberly Nordyke

   "I personally have trouble watching it because it's a time in my life that I don't like to go back to," O'Brien says at SXSW of "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop."Read more

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   SXSW: 'Kill List' Slaying Buyers; Conan O'Brien Unleashes Doc

   5:00 pm 3/13/2011

   • by Jay A. Fernandez

   It looks like the checkbooks are coming out in Austin, while Conan O'Brien continues his campaign for redemption.Read more

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   SXSW Q&A: John Mellencamp Doc Director Kurt Markus

   4:25 pm 3/13/2011

   • by Kevin Cassidy

   Sought-after still photographer segues to Super 8 for 'It's About You,' chronicling Mellencamp's T-Bone Burnett-produced 2009 album 'No Better than This.' Read more

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   Elevate: Film Review

   3:30 pm 3/13/2011

   • by John DeFore

   Anne Buford’s likeable doc centers on tall teen boys from Dakar, Senegal, for whom basketball seems the only path to a better life — and a scholarship in the U.S.Read more

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   SXSW: 'Kill List' World Premiere - Sex Pistols, Trash Talking, Beer Shotgunning Relay

   1:24 pm 3/13/2011

   • by Jay A. Fernandez

   Now this is how you set up a movie: The "Kill List" world premiere featured the Sex Pistols, trash talking and an Americans-v.-Europeans beer shotgunning relay.Read more

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10. SXSW: What Does Harry Knowles Have in His Pocketses? 'Thor'? Super 8'? 'Godfather IV'?

    12:57 pm 3/13/2011

    • by Jay A. Fernandez

    Pajiba.com managing editor and former THR staffer Dan Carlson has been playing around with SXSW attendees’ expectations for the surprise Monday night Ain’t It Cool News 15th anniversary screening.Read more

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