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South by Southwest · 2024

South by Southwest 2024

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Adrianne & The Castle

Review preview for Adrianne & The Castle

The effect is sometimes comical, but true intimacy often looks absurd from the outside.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Shannon Walsh; Writer: Shannon Walsh, Laurel Sprengelmyer; Stars: Alan St-George, Adrianne St-George)

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Birdeater

When a bride-to-be is invited to her own fiancé's bachelor party in the Australian outback, a night to remember takes a feral turn.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Jack Clark, Jim Weir; Stars: Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, Caroline McQuade)

Dead Mail

Review preview for Dead Mail

Everything here looks grimy, as if the film itself had been lying around in poor conditions for years, and colours and patterns are artfully mismatched.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)

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Dory Previn: On My Way To Where

A documentary about the MGM lyricist and influential 1970s cult singer-songwriter who famously went public about her schizophrenia diagnosis, ultimately accepting her voices and anticipating a modern-day neurodiversity movement.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Julia Greenberg, Dianna Dilworth; Stars: Dory Previn, Lion, Mama, Max)

Songs From The Hole

An incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary visual album composed behind bars.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Contessa Gayles; Writer: James 'JJ'88' Jacobs, Contessa Gayles; Stars: Ernest Walker, Ryleigh Leggett, Jovon Times, Myles Lassiter)

The Trouble With Mr Doodle

The story of an extraordinary boy born into an ordinary family in an unremarkable English town and how a childhood passion threatened to take over his life, his home and his mind.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Ed Perkins, Jaimie D'Cruz; Stars: Morgan Davies, Sam Cox, Neil Cox)