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When one looks back on the work of Jack Black, there’s a tendency for Black to come across as irritating. After all, his work is often one-note, loud and abrasive, and even when Black manages to tame his act into something recognizably human, it can still get stale quickly. However, “Bernie” represents something entirely different for Black, his first portrayal of a real-life figure, and it makes for the best performance of his career.
In “Bernie,” Austin-based filmmaker Richard Linklater’s newest film, Jack Black plays real-life Texas criminal Bernie Tiede, a mortician who strikes up an unlikely friendship with millionaire Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). When the friendly, unassuming Bernie is driven to murder the curmudgeonly Marjorie, District Attorney Danny Buck (Matthew McConaughey) swoops in to pick up the pieces.
South By Southwest has assembled an intimidating roster of films this year, including star-studded premieres and a wonderful midnight film program. Here are a few of the big tickets at this year’s festival you should seek out.
Physical media may be dying, but it’ll be a tragedy for the collector if it ever does. Sure, one could go to Amazon and download a digital copy of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused,” or stream it via Netflix, but true fans would probably rather have a hard copy, especially if it’s the Criterion Collection Blu-ray, which features a superb transfer of the movie as well as a slew of extras.
Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunset” is one of those classic falling-in-love films, an elliptically-paced look at a single night in the lives of two young globetrotters.
With “Weekend,” writer-director Andrew Haigh has produced a very similar film, a gay-themed riff on flash-in-the-pan romance that takes place over a weekend in the life of two British men.
Funny man Jack Black and Austin director Richard Linklater visited the Paramount Theater to show a benefit screening of the new film “Bernie.” All proceeds went to aid the Bastrop fire relief effort.
“Bernie,” starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, details the life of a beloved funeral director in Carthage, Texas who forms an unlikely friendship with the town’s richest widow.
Director and filmmaker Richard Linklater and artist Mika Tajima contended that slackers aren’t apathetic or lazy, but are instead driven by a unique ideology that emphasizes enjoying life. They discussed their views on slackers at a program presented Tuesday by the Blanton Museum of Art and the UT Visual Arts Center.
Standing in the midst of slide projections, scaffolds and paintings displaying vivid and energetic colors, artist Mika Tajima quietly surveyed her work as it neared completion Tuesday in the Visual Arts Center.
At a Blanton Museum event on campus Tuesday, Tajima, the new artist-in-residence at the UT, explained her creation process for her exhibit “The Architect’s Garden,” set to be open from Sept. 9 until Dec. 17 in the Visual Arts Center.
