Monday and a Public Service Announcement

All SXSW goers please be kind to the service industry persons filling your drinks, expediting your food, washing your dishes, mopping the floor you might have thrown up on, and the wizards behind the curtains making sh&% happen. 

Austin is still a relatively "small city" and the influx of SXSW attendants is a bane and a blessing to the proletariats that populate Austin. Enjoy, but keep in mind, no one likes a rude and messy guest.

My picks for Monday are few and far between due to the fact that many of the films showing that day I have already mentioned. Films do repeat, I repeat, films do repeat, with the selection of a select few. Please check the SXSW website for any repeating show times and everything is subject to change.

So Monday ...

The Dungeon Masters is a documentary "set against the backdrop of crumbling middle-class America, two men and one woman devote their lives to Dungeons and Dragons, the storied role playing game, and its various descendants."Director Kevin McAlester is the same individual who brought us Your'e Gonna Miss Me, a bio-pic on the legendary and influential Austin musician Roky Erickson. Showing @ 11:30 a.m. Austin Convention Center. 

The Forgotten Tree is a documentary set in a slum of Mexico City. The film looks really well done and I, personally, am fascinated by the real life grating existences continuing in our backyards. Showing @ 4 p.m. Hideout.

That Evening Sun: "Lines are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the southern sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery." Southern writer/director, southern story, southern setting. Showing @ 7 p.m. Alamo Ritz 1. 

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is Gerald Peary's (film critic for the Boston Phoenix) documentary about the "rich saga" of film criticism and where it has ended up, and going. How ironic, I just can't pass this one up. This one made my top ten. Showing @ 8 p.m. Alamo Ritz 2. 

Lesbian Vampire Killers "With heaping helps of gratuitous skin, violence and onscreen beer consumption ... " need I quoth more. Showing @ 11:59 p.m. Alamo Lamar 1.

The film festival seems extra-long this year, and unfortunately I can't devote nine days to it, but I am devoting four. For continuing coverage (post Monday) checkout one of my compatriot's blog here.