Fuck You I'm From Austin Film Talk

To a Gun Toting Man a poem by Cindy Marabito I fell in love with you the first time I saw you I was living behind Mrs. Lombardo’s house on Hazel Street and my mother and I watched you in The President’s Lady with Susan Hayward. You played the part of Andy Jackson and you were in love with a scorned woman. We stayed up late and I was lost in your Mount Rushmore chin your massive Cro-Magnon jaw structure that belongs on a large mountain of its own jutting itself out to all those liberal disbelievers who don’t know you like I know you. They’ve never seen you turn against everybody in the whole United States and risk bigamy for the woman you love. They’ve never seen you in that movie stars at home book lying nude in a clear lucite hammock with a very large grin and a magazine. I love you Moses even though that’s sacrilegious to lust for the leader of the Jews who led them into the desert and who parted the Red Sea for Cecil B. deMille. Who was cast for the part because he looke...

Here's an old review of Sherman's March I did in Detour Magazine. "I've stayed here in Atlanta where I've gotten a motel until I can figure out what to do next....two large empty beds is twice as depressing as having one large empty bed....Both my life and my film were in limbo." "What is a fanny tuck? Well, you have a fat ass like this...most people's bottom goes like this and mine went like that....most men don't know anything about it, but if you can put one or two pencils up there and stand there and and they don't fall out, then you're gonna be in trouble. I could put a medium sized tube of Crest toothpaste there and it didn't fall out." There are so many great, great scenes and quotes. Fuck You I'm From Texas Film Talk sez, yeah, south gonna do it again. Lose, but also make great movies hahaha. How can you not with these characters and all the kooky things they got to say? This movie is on...

Agent Ernge             My sister tells me that if I say Agent Ernge, nobody’ll get it. She’s right as she is about most things, but on this I don’t care. I don’t care if nobody gets it. It’s important that I get it and maybe three other people. If I’m real lucky, her, Gary and maybe, Toby will get it. My dad would get it, but he probably will never read it, anyway .             I’ve always loved orange. I love orange juice very much and up till now, mostly preferred the concentrate over the fresh squeezed. I live in California and here it’s harder to find the concentrate than the fresh squeezed, so I went over to the other side finally. I remember back in the seventies when Anita Bryant was the spokesman for Florida oranges. That was before spokesmodels and before her big hoorah over the gay business. She was an Oklahoma girl and I always believed had more than her ...

Yesterday was a very sad day in the town of Austin. A legend passed away and left behind a great big hole in this town. Besides his writing, comedy, music, Chad Holt was a creator. He turned everything he did (and he did a lot!) into an event. That is called living life large and Chad Holt did that. He lived life large and out of control and that's how life should be lived if you ask Fuck You I'm From Texas Film Talk. The whole movie 'TOTAL BADASS' In a perfect world, or back in 1980 Austin, the Varsity or Dobie Mall would probably be showing back to back viewings of Chad's film Total Badass directed by Bob Ray , but it's not those days anymore. Total Badass is an inside view slice a life documentary about the doings and goings on in Chad Holt's world. More than one review of the film likened Chad to a modern day Austin TX Hunter S. Thompson. They got that right. That kind of balls out honesty doesn't roll around too often. The fi...

Here's my take on 1989's oscars and I'm not giving in one inch. Hey, yo! Check it out...one of my favorite Dallas TX bands Shallow Reign doing a cover of Born on the Bayou in Born on the 4th of July!!   FYI, here's the nominees and winners for 1989:

One of Fuck You I'm From Texas Film Talk's favorite bands The Hickoids is playing a date in Marseille, France n ext Friday 8/ 16/19. So, for those of us old   s'en tenir à la boue back home, how about a couple of great movies filmed right about east of Marseille? I'm talking about Jean de Florette and the sequel Manon of the Spring . These films would be perfect to watch at the Varsity back on the drag. But, those old good times are pas plus. Oh, well. We can still stream and dream. First, the books. " In  Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs , Marcel Pagnol (called by Andre Malraux "one of the great writers of our generation" and by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age") achieves the fullest and most satisfying expression of a story that haunted him for years, a Provencal legend of vengeance exacted by a mysterious sheperdess. Pagnol brings to his treatment of this powerful, moving story his dramatist's sense o...

Like the song says , when a man loves a woman, he'll say anything! Oh, boy. Everybody loves this picture of John Cusack. Such a Peter Gabriel minute. One of those unforgettable classic film moments. Here's some unforgettable Mental Floss moments to go along with a re-watch of this wonderful movie..including John Cusack getting up onstage and handing Peter Gabriel the boombox....who ended up singing 'In Your Eyes' that night holding the boombox over his head. Priceless. This is my take on good chemistry and bad in movies with a review of  Say Anything  which was published in the January 1990 issue of Detour Magazine.

Okay, to be honest, I looked forward to this movie for months. Couldn't wait for it to get here. Drug my husband way out to Regal Arbor @ Great Hills the first night it played and I'm still having to make up for it. How can you make a movie about that great music that came out of Laurel Canyon in the late sixties into the 70's and bore the shit out of people? How long have you got? First off, is Jakob Dylan in the mafia, because everybody in the show seemed scared shitless of him. I mean, it's not like he's Bob or anything. I noticed first with Fiona Apple who acted terrified. Beck was pretty reticent as was Cat Power a.k.a. Chan Marshall. It was weirdly set up, the whole show, as a series of duets and trios all pretty much featuring Jakob. I like Jakob. Don't get me wrong. I never change the station when "One Headlight" comes on. But, he has a very strange effect on people and it makes the whole documentary very uncomfortable to watch. Li...

Published in Detour Magazine back in December 1989, my review of Martin Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ .

Last night I watched the adorable, yes, adorable movie Sword of Trust . Starring stand up comedian and podcaster WTF With Marc Maron Podcast , Marc Maron is a southern transplant Mel who runs a pawn shop in a small Alabama town. Marc is probably best remembered for his starring role in the Netflix series Glow .  Jon Bass plays Nathaniel, Mel's internet surfing pawn shop employee who does pretty much nothing, but so dang charming, you don't care and neither does Mel. In walk lesbian couple Cynthia (Jillian Bell) and Mary (Michaela Watkins) who've inherited the Maltese Falcon sword that really won the Civil War in the south's favor. What got me right off were my own pre-conceptions. I know a ton of people from Alabama who aren't the cool Muscle Shoals crowd if you know what I mean. This little film upsets your notions in a quiet way, over and over. Sword of Trust employs a great indy filmmaking trick. It's a character study that rides the line very c...