Beyond borders with Austin's Lonesome Heroes, U2 tribute band Mysterious Ways, Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey, and a bunch of SXSW international bands with their fingers crossed.

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

SXSW Platters

Razorlight

Razorlight

Future Clouds & Radar

Future Clouds & Radar

Peel

Peel

Grand Champeen

Dial T for This

Wolf & Cub

Vessels

The Holmes Brothers

State of Grace

Sunny Sweeney

Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame

LoneyDear

Loney, Noir

The Broken West

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On

Lily Allen

Alright, Still

screens

SXSW FILM

SXSW Film 07

March 9-17

State Fair

Recognizing the pictures, but also the kinds of spirits who appreciate them: the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

BY STEVE UHLER

Road Movies

Lisa McWilliams' Mobile Film School

BY C. AMBER PEARCE

This Month Only

From turtles to "The Next Tim Day"

Like Out of a Movie

The legend of Alejandro Gomez Monteverde

BY JOE O'CONNELL

Before the Flood

In the struggle between local environmentalists and developers, Laura Dunn's documentary reminds us, Barton Springs was only the beginning

BY MARRIT INGMAN

Property Value

Andrew Garrison on how Houston artists and inner-city neighbors rebuilt a community

BY ANNE S. LEWIS

Call-and-Response

Marcy Garriott on the intricate dance between documentarian and subject

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Battle of the Jam Bands

Bob Ray and Werner Campbell's five-year rock & Roller Derby adventure

BY MARC SAVLOV

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

BY JOSH ROSENBLATT

We Have Met the Future, and It Is Us

Film on the Web, part II: the movies

BY SPENCER PARSONS

Looking More Closely When Others Look Away

On directors examining structure, storytelling, and how pictures can move us

BY NORA ANKRUM

Different Stages

The divergent paths of one disease, in life and on film

BY DAVE MARSH

Michael & Us

Canadian filmmakers Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine set out to celebrate a lion of the left. They ended up with something a little different.

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

The Few

A former Marine's unfiltered photography leads an American documentary crew into Darfur

BY DIANA WELCH

Taking the 'Us' out of It

Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

... Vs Liger?

New Zealander Taika Waititi doesn't mind if you compare his charmed comedy to Napoleon Dynamite

BY JAMES RENOVITCH

In Stereoscope

Sarah Lipstate's songs – and shorts – of innocence and experiments

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

TV Eye

So long, Sarah; hello, Halfway

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

Believe in Me

Despite all its clichéd moralizing and blatant borrowings, the movie does offer a few clever twists on an old sports-movie formula.

Iraq in Fragments

This multiaward-winning documentary was two years in the making and tells stories about modern Iraq in the words of civilians of various ethnicities.

Miss Potter

This Renée Zelweger movie about the life of Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter lacks dramatic tension and a sense of purpose.

300

Both Frank Miller's comic about the legendary battle of Thermopylae and Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation are bloodthirsty affairs, awash in spectacle.

arts & culture

What's Past Is Prologue

Recreating classic tap routines from the screen and stage opens an exciting new future for Tapestry Dance Company

BY ROBERT FAIRES

'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Lawrence Wright's journey from page to stage

Lawrence Wright's experiences in the years he spent researching The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 have become the basis for a one-man theatrical work

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Gallery Lombardi: A little farther from the train tracks, but the art still rocks

Gallery Lombardi has left its longtime home on Third Street for new digs on West Seventh, but you can expect the same great salon-style group shows for which it's known