SXSW's Can't-Miss Movies
Details about The Beaver, Conan O'Brien's documentary - and more.
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Photo by: sxswSource Code
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and becomes part of a mission to find the bomber on a Chicago commuter train. Michelle Monaghan also stars in director Duncan Jones' thriller.
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Photo by: sxswKill List
Ben Wheatley's film tells the tale of a contract killer (Neil Maskell) who is pressured into taking an assignment by his partner (Michael Smiley).
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Photo by: sxswJune 24: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop"
This documentary feature from Rodman Flender follows Conan O'Brien on his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour which took place during the months after he left NBC and The Tonight Show.
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Photo by: sxswThe Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Oscar-nominated flimmaker Morgan Spurlock takes a look at the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in this documentary, which was fully financed by brand partnerships.
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Photo by: sxswThe Innkeepers
Sara Paxton and Pat Healy play the last remaining employees of The Yankee Pedlar Inn, a haunted 100-year-old New England hotel. Before closing its doors for good in TI West's ghost tale.
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Photo by: sxswFambul tok
The ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk) brings victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's civil war back together in Sara Terry's first film, a documentary.
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Photo by: sxswThe Beaver
Directed by two-time Academy Award winner, Jodi Foster, this comedy mark's Mel Gibson's first major movie role since last year's Edge of Darkness. In The Beaver, he plays a depressed man who turns to a beaver hand puppet for comfort.
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Photo by: sxswElevate
Anne Buford followed four West African Muslim teenagers over the course of four years as they made their way from the basketball courts of Senegal to upscale American prep schools.
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Photo by: sxswGirl walks into a Bar
Carla Gugino, Zachary Quinto, Danny DeVito and Josh Hartnett play some of the strangers who visit ten Los Angeles bars over the course of one night in this Sebastian Gutierrez movie.
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Universal Pictures and Greg Mottola reunite Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead) to play two sci-fi fanatics who take a pilgrimage into America's UFO heartland.
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Photo by: sxswBridesmaids
Judd Apatow produced and Paul Feig directed this story of a maid of honor (Kristen Wiig - who also penned the piece) whose life unravels as she oversees the preparations for the wedding of her best friend (Maya Rudolph). Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper also star.
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James Gunn flick tells the tale of a DIY superhero Crimson Bolt (Rainn Wilson) and his sidekick Boltie (Ellen Page) who set out to save his wife (Liv Tyler) from the hands of a drug dealer (Kevin Bacon).
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Photo by: sxswYou Instead
Luke Treadway and Natalia Tena star in David Mackenzie's rock movie about two feuding musicians who get handcuffed together for 24 hours before they are both scheduled to perform at the same music festival.
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Photo by: sxswUndefeated
Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin followed three underprivileged high school football players from inner-city Memphis and their volunteer coach who leads them to their first playoff win in the school's 110-year history.
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Photo by: sxswDragonslayer
First-time director Tristan Patterson's documentary chronicles the life of a lost teenager falling in love in the suburbs of Fullerton, CA.
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Photo by: sxswAttack the Block
This Joe Cornish helmed film stars Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker and Luke Treadway as teenagers defending their South London block from an alien invasion.
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Photo by: SXSWThe Dish and the Spoon
Greta Gerwig plays a scorned woman who meets a British teenage boy (newcomer Olly Alexander) that has marooned on the beach of a Delaware town in Allison Bagnall's quirky romance.
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Photo by: SXSWThe Divide
Milo Ventimiglia, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Biehn and Lauren German star in this Xavier Gens film about what happens after a cataclysmic bomb is dropped on New York.
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Photo by: SXSWWeekend
Directed by Andrew Haigh, who got his start in editing on films like Gladiator and Mister Lonely, the film follows Russell (Tom Cullen) as he picks up Glen (Chris New) for a one-night stand that ends up turning into more.
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Photo by: SXSWFightville
This film marks the fifth collaboration of directors Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein (and their fourth SXSW appearance). The documentary focuses on the art and sport of fighting as it's carried out in gyms across America.
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Photo by: sxswKumare
This documentary, directed by Vikram Gandhi, follows a man who builds a following in Arizona by impersonating an Indian Guru.
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Photo by: SXSWEl Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Every year, renowned chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant to spend six months at his cooking laboratory in Barcelona creating a new menu for the following season. Director Gereon Wetzel spent one year with the chef and his creative team.
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Photo by: SXSWFoo Fighters
Director James Moll catalogues the 16-year journey of band members Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Nate Mendel, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shiflett from the group's creation after the end of Nirvana to their chart-topping and stadium sellout present.
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