This film arrived on my doorstep just after the ‘06 festival, along with a polite note from the director explaining that while he’d completely missed hearing about the fest deadline, he thought he’d send in a copy anyway for us to check out.

It being an Austin production, and I being always one to keep abreast of local films, I eagerly gave it a quick once-over to decide if I should watch it right then, or add it to the stack of films to watch that month.
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The 5th SAY Sí summer film program premiered on Friday to a crowd of students, friends, and patrons of the arts at the Buena Vista Theater of UTSA’s downtown campus. The annual event is the highlight of the year for the kids of SAY Sí’s film program, where the culmination of their hard work is professionally screened free for the public. SAY Sí is a tuition-free, multidisciplinary art program unique to San Antonio.
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Global warming. Rainforest destruction. Water shortages. Species Extinction. Our lifestyle as collaborators in this modern world has brought us all to what many see as the End Times.
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The semi-annual Clogged Caps Aerosol Arts Festival took place this Friday through Sunday at the Nolan St. bridge in downtown San Antonio. Already in its fifth incarnation, the live graffiti showcase was bigger and more popular than ever, and attracted hundreds of artists and appreciators.
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A video document of New York City on the eve of Times Square’s violent transition into modernity, The Gods of Times Square is a singular street-level snapshot allowing you to literally watch an entire era of the city vanish before your eyes like a fading Polaroid.

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Italy, 1980 - One week after its premiere, the film Cannibal Holocaust is banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy, the reels are seized by Italian authorities, and director Ruggero Deodato is hauled before court in order to prove that the “documentary” murders depicted in it are fake. Facing life in prison, Deodato explains how he staged the realistic-looking deaths, and then produces his actors on an Italian TV show, breaking their 1-year media silence contract in doing so. Despite this, his film has been mistaken for snuff in America as recently as 1993, and the uncut version remains banned in the UK.
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The late researcher and radio show host is considered by many to be the queen of conspiriology, with theories on nearly every facet of societal ills. Tim Canale’s first film, which is mostly comprised of Brussell’s 1987 lecture at UC Santa Cruz, is a rare opportunity to see Lady Mae herself going on one of her patented esoteric rants against all the nefarious government plots that are heralding our imminent descent into a tyrannical post-capitalistic police state.
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The first of several upcoming documentaries that are headed here like ballistic missiles from Iraq, Gunner Palace succeeds in hitting home with Western audiences, a difficult task given our increasingly jaded attitude toward war ever since the advent of 24-hour satellite news coverage of the fighting. This film is, if nothing else, a jolting reminder that even CNN filters and censors certain realities of battle. Enter the embedded journalists to fill in the blanks, armed with digital cameras shooting thirty frames a second and total access to the daily lives and deaths of American servicemen.
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NOTE: A quick preface to this piece- unlike most reviewers, I refused to simply perpetuate the underground hype surrounding this band, so I chose my words as objectively and free from hyperbole as I could.

Guitar Wolf is the greatest punk band that has ever played, and the greatest that ever will play. Ever. Any one of their artless alchemical noise experiments-gone-horribly-right is enough to make a straightjacket-bound legal deaf burst out of his restraints in song and dance, a feat of strength which has only been replicated through near-lethal doses of angel dust and/or the sight of an infant trapped under the wheel of an automobile.

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Having just been introduced to the films of Mark Eisenstein, I found myself in the presence of a true outsider artist. His dark comedy The Final Journey of Arnie Schwartz (aka The Electric Chair) features a powerfully honest performance by the late, great Victor Argo as an aging stand up comic, and struck a chord in me somewhere between Lenny and The King of Comedy. Early on in a scene from his latest film, a terrified infantry man approaches his superior:

“What is it, soldier?”Â�

“It’s God, sir. He’s on the other side.”Â�

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