Tag: Thunder Road
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Memo to Distributors: Buy These Movies From the 2018 SXSW Film Festival
While the SXSW Film Festival technically stretches across two weekends, it’s drowned out by music after the first one, while many of the programming highlights remain homeless. SXSW doesn’t usually play host to marketplace activity on the level of Sundance or other big festivals, in part because the Austin gathering attracts few buyers and hosts…
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‘Thunder Road’, ‘People’s Republic Of Desire’ triumph at SXSW
Audience Awards to be handed out on March 17.Jim Cummings’ Midwest-set drama Thunder Road was anointed winner of the 2018 SXSW Narrative Feature Competition on Tuesday night (March 13).The corresponding Documentary Feature Competition winner was People’s Republic Of Desire by Hao Wu.In the short film awards, Carey Williams’ Emergency won Narrative Shorts, while Charlie Tyrell’s…
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SXSW Awards: ‘Thunder Road,’ ‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Win Top Prizes
“Thunder Road,” a drama about a police officer from Middle America trying to raise his young daughter as he copes with his disintegrating marriage and imploding career, won the top prize at the South by Southwest Awards on Tuesday night for best narrative feature.Jim Cummings wrote, directed and starred in the movie, which is based…
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SXSW 2018 Winners List: ‘Thunder Road’ and ‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Claim Top Jury and Special Awards
Juried prizes were presented tonight at the 25th annual Swsw Film Festival. Jim Gaffigan, in Austin to represent the Miranda Bailey-directed ensemble comedy “You Can Choose Your Family,” presided as host. The venue was the Paramount Theatre, a 103-year-old landmark just blocks from the Texas Capitol.SXSW will continue screening films through Saturday, when most of…
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SXSW Film Review: ‘Thunder Road’
In the jaw-dropping opening sequence of “Thunder Road,” Officer Jim Arnaud (Jim Cummings), a uniformed cop in his early 30s, saunters up to the front of a church to speak at his mother’s funeral. Technically, you would call the speech a eulogy, but the mildly absurd free-associational confessional ramble that pours out of Jim feels…