Udo Kier in Swan Song
If you don’t have plans next weekend, make some.
The Oak Cliff Film Festival is bringing hours of cutting-edge film practically to your doorstep.
Here are some previews to put you in the mood.
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché tells the story you don’t know about the original punk-rock icon. It shows at 3:15 p.m. Sunday at the Texas Theatre.
Swan Song is the third film in director/screenwriter Todd Stephens’ “Ohio trilogy.” Character actor Udo Kier has received great reviews for his performance in this film, which recently was picked up by Magnolia Pictures for distribution. It also stars Jennifer Coolidge and Linda Evans from Dynasty. We couldn’t find a trailer, but here is the synopsis:
Legendary character actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger who has given up on life from the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home. But when Pat gets word that a former client’s dying wish was for him to style her final hairdo, he sets out on an odyssey across Sandusky to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job. SWAN SONG is a comical and bittersweet journey about rediscovering one’s sparkle, and looking gorgeous while doing so.
It shows at 9 p.m. Friday at the Texas Theatre. Todd Stephens and Udo Kier will be in attendance.
The Unlikely Fan is one in a block of documentary short films showing at the Kessler, starting at 1:15 p.m. Sunday, June 27.
She’s a Sri Lankan born, Dallas-based, retired teacher and mother. She’s also crazy about basketball. Meet “The Unlikely Fan” who knows a thing or two about hoops.
The Unlikely Fan (teaser) from Sai Selvarajan on Vimeo.
The feature-length documentary Off the Road takes a look at the Baja 1000, an off-road motorsports race through the desert of Baja California.
A group of young musicians sing in the style of “corridos” the deeds of three men who live in the most isolated region of the Baja California Sur desert. As the “Baja 1000”, the world’s largest annual all-terrain car race, takes place crossing the Mexican-U.S. border, these men look for an opportunity to be a part of it and escape the apparent monotony of their small communities.
It shows at 1:45 p.m. Saturday, June 26, at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
At the same time and same place the following day is Luchadoras, a documentary about female wrestlers in “the most dangerous city in the word, Juarez.
Luchadoras portrays the courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high femicide rates. There is Mini Serinita who’s biggest dream is to become a full time Luchadora and leave the factory work that disenfranchises so many women for good. Lady Candy who can see the US Border, where her daughters were taken, from her house but due to visa regulations can never cross it. And Baby Star, the young single mother who was a Lucha Libre Star at an early age and now makes her way to a comeback. With Mexican passion they present a new image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico.
This one looks scary. John and the Hole is about a 13-year-old boy who finds an unfinished bunker and persuades his family to go in.
It shows at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at the Texas Theatre. Director Pascual Sisto will be in attendance.
Hayden Pedigo, the subject of the documentary feature Kid Candidate, along with director Jasmine Stodel, will be in attendance of the screening of the film at 7 p.m. Friday, June 25 at the Texas Theatre.
In 2018, 24-year old Hayden Pedigo released a spoof video declaring his candidacy for Amarillo city council. After the video goes viral in the local community, Pedigo is inspired to actually run for council in the small Texas town. With a goal of upending the status quo and ousting the county’s corrupt incumbent politicians, the young experimental musician and filmmaker makes a name for himself – not just for his bizarre campaign, but for reaching out to the local communities that have suffered the most in Amarillo. While still keeping a humorous and light-hearted tone, KID CANDIDATE goes beyond Pedigo’s political run and looks at issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.
