SXSW films in a nutshell.

Did you know heavy drinking and lack of sleep ruins your memory? I'm here to tell you it does. It was my third-year volunteering on the Interactive Panels (hawt!) and I had a relatively good time. However, we usually share the green room with Film Panels, but this year we didn't. I missed a ton of celeb action, and this saddens me. But moving on...I'll give a brief rundown of what films/shows I kinda sorta remember seeing.

Goliath. A local Austin film. Cute, short, made me tear up when he buried his cat. And anything that paints a pedophile in a sympathetic light wins points from me.
The Promotion. Cute, funny. I laughed out loud at the Down's Syndrome masturbation scene with John C. Reilly. Seann William Scott wouldn't be my first choice as the lead, but he did okay. Well-written.
Assassination of a High School President. Mischa Barton has an amazing power. That power is the ability to ruin any movie she's in! She ruined the O in Ohio (not that it was that great anyway) and she ruined this movie. It was like Garden State meets Breakfast Club. It went back and forth between being teen-noir (like Brick) and high school comedy (like Mean Girls). This annoyed me. But the director, Brett Simon, was smoking hot.
Lou Reed's Berlin. I loved The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, also directed by Julian Schnabel. This was okay. Lou Reed rocked it out. Kind of boring at times. I ate a granny smith apple in the middle of it, and took a slight nap. But "Men of Good Fortune" was bombass.
Choke. I'm in love with Sam Rockwell. He's a moderately sexy beast. This film was highly enjoyable. I felt the sex scenes could have gone a bit further, but I'm jaded.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I feel weird that I saw Jason Segel's penis multiple times in the movie, and then he was there live at the premiere! Awkward! He wrote the script, and I give him mad props for some amazing jokes. But Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis annoy the shit out of me. And I'm tired of the guys having all the fun in these Judd Apatow movies and the women being non-funny, whiny bitches. That's not how I roll.