Short Cuts
By Marjorie Baumgarten, Fri., April 9, 1999
Hands on a Hard Body: A Panel Discussion is being presented this Friday, April 9, 7:30-9pm, by the Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Not exactly sure what topics are under the microscope here, but I know the movie has a wealth of rich veins for the study of aberrant psychology -- like, what makes someone loco enough to stand around for days with their hands on a pickup truck, is this something that only truck-lovin' Texans would do, and why has the film's Austin run at the Dobie (where it premiered) lasted longer than most pregnancies? Austinites are in love with this movie, which has theatrical bookers and documentary makers throughout the country looking to Austin for the secret of its success. The panel discussion's speakers include Sabrina Barton, professor of English at UT; Virginia Eubanks, psychiatrist; Sherry Dickey, psychologist/psychoanalyst; and Paul Stekler, RTF production head at UT. The discussion takes place in the North Austin Medical Center Auditorium (12221 N. MoPac)...
As a special treat this Tuesday at the Austin Film Society screening of the Lillian Gish classic The Wind (as part of the "Women Screenwriters of the 1930s" series), the silent film will be presented with live musical accompaniment composed and performed by Graham Reynolds of Golden Arm Trio. This event combines the best of the eclectic AFS programming and the ongoing live music and film series that the Alamo has been doing. (My head is still reeling from the fabulous and well-honed, two-and-a-half-hour performance Kamran Hooshmand and the 1001 Nights Orchestra put on last week behind The Thief of Bagdad.) The Wind screens on Tuesday, April 13, at the Alamo Drafthouse, 7 and 9:30pm; admission is 35¢...
Cable access show The Show With No Name (Sundays, 11pm-midnight, channel 10), wrote in to say that featured this Sunday will be Jim Henson's first movie, the Academy Award-nominated short"Time Piece" (1965). It's a trippy live-action piece that showcases a youthful Henson. Also, next Sunday the show will air the notorious Frat House. Controversy about the veracity of the project's filmmaking methods has kept this scandalous SXSW.98 fave from its appointed broadcast dates on HBO, but sometimes there's just no stopping those frat boys.