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The Outlaw Music Festival began nine years back as a single event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson, and Lee Ann Womack. It’s slowly morphed into a traveling fest that brings Nelson and a rotating cast of top-grade support acts to amphitheaters across America every summer, and they leveled up significantly last year by placing Bob Dylan in the penultimate slot every night of the run.

They repeated the successful Bob/Willie formula this summer for an extensive, 36-show trek, and sprinkled on acts like Wilco,...

Age continues to be nothing but a number for Willie Nelson, who celebrates his 92nd birthday today, April 29th. No further proof is needed than his exhaustive touring schedule, launching with his annual “Outlaw Music Festival Tour” on May 13th in Phoenix, Arizona.

The 36-date tour will once again be co-headlined by Bob Dylan. They will perform alongside a rotating all-star lineup featuring Billy Strings, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Waxahatchee, and more.

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Other artists appearing on select dates of the “Outlaw Music Festival Tour” include Turnpike Troubadours, Lucinda Williams, The Red Clay Strays, Madeline Edwards, Trampled by Turtles, and Lake Street Dive, among others. See the full schedule below, and get last-minute tickets here.

Nelson is also holding his annual 4th of July Picnic in Austin, Texas, featuring performances from Dylan, The Avett Brothers, The Mavericks, Asleep at the Wheel,...

Willie Nelson is preparing for the 10th annual Outlaw Music Festival Tour, which will see him make 35 stops across 22 states.

The tour is scheduled to begin in Arizona on May 13 and conclude in Wisconsin on Sept. 19.

Willie Nelson & Family will be accompanied by Bob Dylan, Billy String, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Sheryl Crow, Charles Wesley Godwin, Lucinda Williams, Sierra Hull, Waylon Payne, Willow Avalon, Myron Elkins, Tami Neilson, Madeleine Edwards, Lily Meola, Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Trampled by Turtles, Waxahatchee, The Avett brothers, The Red Clay Strays, Turnpike Troubadours, The Mavericks, Lake Street Dive and Wilco.

In a statement, Nelson shared, “What an amazing lineup to celebrate my 10th Anniversary of the Outlaw Music Festival Tour.”

He continued, “I can’t wait to join friends and family in bringing this celebration to the fans we love.”

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Willie Nelson will celebrate the 10th anniversary of his “Outlaw Music Festival Tour” in summer 2025 with an all-star lineup featuring Bob Dylan, Billy Strings, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Waxahatchee, and more.

Spanning a total of 34 dates, the tour officially kicks off on May 13th in Phoenix, Arizona. Nelson and Dylan will be consistent presence throughout the duration of the tour, co-headlining each show alongside a rotating cast of special guest opening acts. Other acts set to appear at select dates include Turnpike Troubadours, Lucinda Williams, The Red Clay Strays, Willow Avalon, Trampled by Turtles, and Lake Street Dive, among others.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale is set for Thursday, February 6th at 10:00 a.m. local time via via Ticketmaster (use code Duet), with a public on-sale following on Friday, February 7th at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are returning to the road this summer to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Outlaw Music Festival, and they’re bringing along Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Waxahatchee, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, and more to join them at various stops along the way. The 35-date tour kicks off May 13 in Phoenix and wraps up Sept. 19 in East Troy, Wisconsin. Ticket sales begin Feb. 7.

“What an amazing lineup to celebrate the 10th anniversary...

When Shelby Lynne returned to Nashville after 25 years, she believed her record-making days were through. “I was over it and tired of it, and I didn’t think there was any interest,” the songwriter tells Rolling Stone in her signature raspy Southern drawl. Perhaps she’d write some songs and perform a few gigs at smaller venues, as she had done throughout the years. After all, releasing 16 albums was no small feat. A “true blue Southerner” as she describes herself, Lynne was more focused on readjusting from a quarter century...

What better way to end a gay country album than by singing with four gay country singers? On Friday, Orville Peck released his new LP Stampede, which concludes with a cover of Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy” alongside Tj Osborne, Waylon Payne, and Fancy Hagood.

“You know how you make ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ gayer?… well now you know,” wrote the Brothers Osborne frontman, who came out in 2021, on Instagram. “I am as obsessed as I am honored to be a part of @orvillepeck ‘s latest album ‘Stampede’ alongside the legends that are @fancyhagood @waylonpayne.

Ahead of the release of Orville Peck’s all-star Stampede next week, the masked country star performed the track “How Far Will We Take It?” alongside guest Noah Cyrus on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The duo’s ballad originally debuted this May on Peck’s Stampede Vol. 1, an EP that previewed seven tracks from the singer’s upcoming 15-song Stampede, out August 2.

While Peck has largely performed “How Far Will We Take It?” solo over the course of his 2024 summer tour, he and Cyrus have had some practice playing the track as a duet,...

‘A Nashville Wish”, directed by Demetrius Navarro, is a new country music drama feature, starring Maxfield Camp and Kaileigh Bullard, with appearances by T. Graham Brown, Waylon Payne, and Lee Greenwood, opening February 2, 2024 in theaters:

“…an aspiring country singer, must choose between the girl of his dreams or achieving his own dreams of becoming a music star…”

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Keith Gattis, a Nashville songwriter, producer, and solo artist who had his songs recorded by Kenny Chesney and George Strait and who produced Randy Houser’s Americana pivot, Magnolia, has died at 52. A source close to Gattis confirmed his death on Sunday to Rolling Stone.

Gattis, a Texas native, began his career as a recording artist, releasing a self-titled debut album in 1996 via RCA Nashville. The song “Little Drops of My Heart” was issued as a single and peaked outside of the Top 40. Nearly a decade later, he independently dropped...

The first round of performers has been announced for AmericanaFest 2021, which takes place in Nashville September 22nd to 25th. Among the 240 total artists scheduled to showcase at venues around Music City are Kelsey Waldon, Allison Russell, and Joshua Ray Walker.

More than 160 artists were announced on Wednesday, including singer-songwriters Kathleen Edwards, Arlo McKinley, William Prince, and Brandy Clark; roots patriarchs and matriarchs Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, and the McCrary Sisters; and scruffy alternative acts Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Early James, and the Pine Hill Haints, among many others. Also of...

Willie Jones made his late-night debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday with his powerful single “American Dream,” originally released in January. The song appears on the Louisiana native’s album Right Now.

An unflinching examination of racial inequality and broken promises in the country where Jones was raised, “American Dream” deals directly with white supremacy while also lifting up those who have put their lives and careers on the line to bring about change. “One man, one man/Rode in deep in the streets with a...

For more than 25 years, Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe has hosted its “Alive at the Bluebird” series to raise funds for the Middle Tennessee nonprofit Alive Hospice. The event will continue in 2021 and feature performances from Kendell Marvel and Shane McAnally, among others, but will shift to a streaming format due to Covid-19.

Beginning Thursday, January 7th, “Alive at the Bluebird” begins its 28th edition with Gary Burr, Georgia Middleman, and Jim Photoglo. Shows will continue weekly at 8:30 p.m. Et on Thursdays, with tickets available via StageIt for $20. Future...

The title of Waylon Payne’s upcoming second album is a mouthful. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher, & Me derives its name from a bleak period in Payne’s life when he was in the grips of a debilitating drug addiction and grieving the death of his mother, “Help Me Make It Through the Night” singer Sammi Smith. One of Payne’s friends in their self-described “drug den” would regularly sing Kris Kristofferson’s “The Silver Tongued Devil and I,” prompting Payne to spit...

Grammy-winning country artist Pam Tillis is making her return with the new album Looking for a Feeling, due out April 24th via her own Stellar Cat Records. As a preview of the upcoming project, the “Maybe It Was Memphis” singer has issued the smoky title track, a bit of Muscle Shoals-style country-soul in the key of Bobbie Gentry.

“Sister’s on a sidewalk listening to the devil’s lies/Brother’s on a mountaintop trying to get wise,” she begins, rattling off a cast of characters who are all looking...

Trying to define alt-country is a foolhardy pursuit, but that didn’t stop Mojo Nixon from leading a panel discussion into the genre while aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise.

Titled “Alt.Country: Whatever That Is,” the Outlaw Country host and subject of the upcoming documentary The Mojo Manifesto assembled Jon Langford of the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, acerbic singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, the Bottle Rockets’ Brian Henneman, and producer-musician Eric “Roscoe” Ambel to dive into those muddy waters. In the end, the group didn’t decide much of anything,...

Country artist and Grand Ole Opry member Hal Ketchum, who is battling Alzheimer’s disease, will be the focus of a tribute concert and fundraising campaign to assist with his medical bills in Gruene, Texas.

Raised by Wolves, Bound for Glory: A Texas Tribute to Hal Ketchum is set to take place at the legendary Gruene Hall on Sunday, February 23rd, and will feature a performance by Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis. Others taking the stage include Walt Wilkins, the Mystiqueros, Lee Roy Parnell, Rob Roy Parnell, Jesse Dayton,...

This week’s installment of Walking the Floor finds Kendell Marvel returning to the show for a third time, having most recently chatted with podcast host Chris Shiflett during an episode recorded backstage at Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks Festival. The pair’s newest conversation revolves around Solid Gold Sounds, the solo album Marvel recorded with producer Dan Auerbach and released last week.

“I’ve interviewed him before,” Shiflett says during the podcast’s introduction. “We’ve toured together. We’ve written songs together. I’ve played his Honky Tonk...

Tanya Tucker, Jade Bird and Dylan LeBlanc are among the initial wave of artists confirmed to perform in Nashville during the 2019 AmericanaFest. The annual celebration of roots and roots-related music takes place September 10th to 15th and includes the Americana Honors and Awards on September 11th.

In its 20th year, AmericanaFest will spread out across Music City venues like 3rd & Lindsley, Mercy Lounge and the Station Inn with performances from a diverse group of artists both established and emerging. Among those are Americana Awards nominee Yola, blues rockers Marcus King...

In Lee Ann Womack’s inventive and heartbreaking new video “Hollywood,” two plastic dolls in the stop-motion-animated clip play stand-ins for live actors, but the anguish of a faltering relationship is no less real as Womack sings, “Every time I ask you, you just say ‘we’re good’/Either I’m a fool for asking or you belong in Hollywood.”

Penned by Womack with Waylon Payne and Adam Wright, the doleful tune is accompanied by scenes of the artificial couple in a motel room, driving through L.A. and the...

Brandi Carlile won in three consecutive categories when the bulk of the 61st annual Grammy Awards — those not shown during the TV broadcast — were handed out during the Grammys Premiere Ceremony.

Carlile’s album By the Way, I Forgive You was named Best Americana Album, while her song “The Joke” won for Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song.

“Americana music is the island of the misfit toys. I am such a misfit,” Carlile said upon winning Best American Roots Song for her empowering outsider anthem “The Joke.

The Luck Reunion at Willie Nelson’s Texas ranch has become an annual tradition, as well as something of an escape for a lucky few from the crowded South by Southwest conference in nearby Austin. Set for March 14th, the 2019 Luck Reunion will feature performances by Nelson, Steve Earle & the Dukes, Mavis Staples, Low Cut Connie and Nathaniel Rateliff, among numerous others.

With performances happening on five different stages, the 2019 Luck Reunion offers a wide array of sounds, from country to soul, rock to blues. Other performers at the event...

Aaron Lewis will return with his third full-length country album in 2019. The Staind vocalist will release the follow-up to 2016’s Sinner, titled State I’m In, via Big Machine imprint Valory Music on April 12th.

Produced by Buddy Cannon, State I’m In features 10 tracks, six of which Lewis had a hand in writing. Songwriting collaborators on the album include Dan Tyminski, Keith Gattis and Waylon Payne, among others. There’s also a recording of “Burnt the Sawmill Down,” written by Jim Elliot with the late Keith Whitley. Preorders for the album begin Friday,...

Nominees for the 61st Grammy Awards were announced on Friday morning, with Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves and Brandi Carlile each earning three nominations within the genre-specific country and Americana categories.

Morris earned Best Country Group/Duo and Best Country Song nods for “Dear Hate,” her topical collaboration with Vince Gill, as well as a Best Country Solo Performance nomination for her cover of Elton John’s “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” from the Restoration tribute album. Musgraves’ Golden Hour was included among the Best Country Album nominees, as was her...

Ashley Monroe embraces the inherent beauty of nature in a dreamy new video for her song “Wild Love.” A track off her latest album Sparrow, it’s one of the more passionate numbers off an already smoldering LP.

In the clip, Monroe is captured wandering through a forest and bathing her feet in a stream as the song’s strings swell around her. “I need a stranger to pull my hair and call my name,” she sings, “take me home and make me feel alive again.”

Monroe co-wrote “Wild Love...

With a tumultuous and triumphant year under her belt, Miranda Lambert is back with some of her best work yet.

But fans looking for explosive breakup tunes in the vein of "Gunpowder and Lead" or "Kerosene" won't find it here. Instead, Lambert offers deliciously subtle clues into her psyche, showing off her songwriting prowess like the pro that she is, complete with an abundance of nerve and heart -- as well as grit and classic country vibes.

Watch: Miranda Lambert Covers Merle Haggard, Pays Tribute to Her 'Hero' at Acm Honors 

Joining Lambert on the ride are producers Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf, and Eric Masse, along with a powerful stable of co-writers. Among them: Lambert's boyfriend, Anderson East; longtime pals Ashley Monroe and Gwen Sebastian; Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance; and Nashville hitmakers Shane McAnally, Natalie Hemby, and Liz Rose, among many, many others.

The Weight of These Wings, Lambert's double...

Writer-director-producer Rick Bieber and financier Ken Clark have partnered to form Minds I Cinema, an indie film production company that has already set up its first project: demonic love story The Other, which Bieber wrote and will direct. Dominic Sherwood, Jill Hennessy, Drea de Matteo, Charlbi Dean and Sinclaire Schaefer have been set to star, and shooting begins this month in La.

Highland Film Group has come aboard to handle international sales, with Gersh repping the domestic sale.

The project is the first in Minds I’s plan to fund and produce two films a year, and the company has several developed and completed screenplays with more projects to be announced.

“It’s our hope that the new company will produce very commercial films with evocative story lines and strong and well developed characters, regardless of genre,” Bieber said. “We’re anxious to create an appealing new home for talented...

Film-maker Rick Bieber and Ken Clark’s new production company kicks off with demonic love story The Other. Highland Film Group handles international sales and Gersh Agency represents Us rights.

Bieber wrote the screenplay and will commence direction in Los Angeles this month on The Other, about a man who may be spiralling into demonic possession.

Dominic Sherwood (pictured), Jill Hennessy, Drea de Matteo, Charlbi Dean and Sinclaire Schaefer star.

MiNDS i CiNEMA is fully funding the project and aims to finance and produce two films a year.

Bieber wrote, directed and produced The 5th Quarter starring Aidan Quinn, Andie McDowell and Ryan Merriman as well as Crazy starring Waylon Payne and Ali Larter.

Clark founded and served as chairman of First Guarantee Mortgage Company.

Louis Gossett Jr. and Anthony Michael Hall lead a cast that includes Alison Eastwood, Ethan Suplee, Joe Perry, Stephen Boss, Waylon Payne, Rick Gifford, John-Paul Howard, and Colby Sheppard, in a depression-era racial justice drama titled Cottonwood, from Mark Campbell Productions.  From a story penned by Stacy Dean Campbell, and dubbed a mystery/drama, here's a lengthy synopsis for the upcoming project: In 1930's depression era Texas, a massive dust storm descends as Sheriff Rube Whitlock buries his daughter who died from "dust pneumonia," and his wife falls into a deep depression. He hires a local black woman, Esther, to take care of the house just as a black teenager...

Rank the week of August 23rd’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Blitz

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #9439

Win Percentage: 51%

Times Ranked: 215

Top-20 Rankings: 5

Directed By: Elliott Lester

Starring: Jason Statham • Paddy Considine • Aidan Gillen • Zawe Ashton • David Morrissey

Genres: Crime • Crime Thriller • Police Detective Film • Thriller

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The Beaver

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #5199

Win Percentage: 52%

Times Ranked: 858

Top-20 Rankings: 6

Directed By: Jodie Foster

Starring: Mel Gibson • Jodie Foster • Anton Yelchin • Jennifer Lawrence • Zachary Booth

Genres: Comedy Drama • Drama • Psychological Drama

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Win Win

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2107

Win Percentage: 61%

Times Ranked: 2455

Top-20 Rankings: 6

Directed By: Thomas McCarthy

Starring: Paul Giamatti • Amy Ryan • Bobby Cannavale • Jeffrey Tambor • Burt Young

Genres: Comedy Drama • Drama • Sports Comedy • Sports Drama

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The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #5643

Win Percentage: 49%

Times Ranked: 725

Top-20 Rankings:...

Monterey will release the 2010 independent neo-noir Road to Nowhere directed by the great Monte Hellman on Blu-ray and DVD on August 23 for the list prices of $34.95 and $26.95, respectively.

Femme fatale as femme fatale: Shannyn Sossamon makes a movie in Road to Nowhere.

Written by Variety editor Steven Gaydos and starring Shannyn Sossamon (40 Days and 40 Nights), Dominique Swain (Fall Down Dead), Waylon Payne (Walk the Line), Cliff De Young (Suicide Kings) and John Diehl (Down in the Valley), the romance-thriller film tells the enigmatic tale of cult film director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan, TV’s Stargate Universe), who has found the material to make his next movie. It’s a true crime story based in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, involving a beautiful young woman, Velma Duran (Sossamon), and her older politico lover, Rafe Taschen (De Young). Just as their so-called “true crime” goes awry, so does Haven’s obsessed...

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(June 2011)

Directed by: Monte Hellman

Written by: Steven Gaydos

Featuring: Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, Cliff De Young, Waylon Payne, Dominique Swain and Rob Kolar

It’s difficult to know where reality ends and fiction begins in Monte Hellman’s newest movie, “Road to Nowhere.” Even when we’re informed that what we’ve just seen is true, we feel less at ease then ever — and wonder what games Hellman may be playing and why.

“Road to Nowhere” is a film-within-a-film that concerns a young Hollywood director (Tygh Runyan), his cast and crew. Their movie is about a mysterious character named Velma Duran (Shannyn Sossamon), her much older lover — slimy politico Rafe Tachen (Cliff De Young) — and the path of destruction that seems to follow them wherever they go. When the director casts an unknown actress named Laurel Graham to play the role of Velma, he...

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(June 2011)

Directed by: Monte Hellman

Written by: Steven Gaydos

Featuring: Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, Cliff De Young, Waylon Payne, Dominique Swain and Rob Kolar

It’s difficult to know where reality ends and fiction begins in Monte Hellman’s newest movie, “Road to Nowhere.” Even when we’re informed that what we’ve just seen is true, we feel less at ease then ever — and wonder what games Hellman may be playing and why.

“Road to Nowhere” is a film-within-a-film that concerns a young Hollywood director (Tygh Runyan), his cast and crew. Their movie is about a mysterious character named Velma Duran (Shannyn Sossamon), her much older lover — slimy politico Rafe Tachen (Cliff De Young) — and the path of destruction that seems to follow them wherever they go. When the director casts an unknown actress named Laurel Graham to play the role of Velma, he...

Title: Road To Nowhere Director: Monte Hellman Starring: Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, Dominique Swain, Waylon Payne, Cliff de Young, John Diehl Monte Hellman’s first film in more than two decades, The Road To Nowhere, is, whatever else one says about it, first and foremost a work that wouldn’t exist were it not for other movies. A referential slice of film noir which enjoyed its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year, recently screened as part of a retrospective of the director’s work at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and now opens wider in Los Angeles and other markets throughout the summer, The Road To Nowhere takes grab-bag elements and splintered fractions of...

Everett Collection Monte Hellman on the set of “Road to Nowhere”

My daughter Melissa is my biggest fan. About three years ago she told me that, much as she loved it, she couldn’t watch “Two-Lane Blacktop” anymore.

She asked me why I hadn’t made a new movie in so long.

I gave the usual excuses: I’d been developing great projects, peddling them to everyone in the business I knew, getting “close but no cigar.” She said, “Why...

Monte Hellman's best films begin by pretending to tell a story. Take your pick: Ride in the Whirlwind, Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Iguana—every of them establishes a good punchy premise (often aided by a startling opening shot or scene) and then, without ever fully abandoning "plot," inches towards an earthy, unshowy, existential bleakness with each scene. In an odd (and ironic) interplay of inertia and impermanence, his frequently stubborn characters become metaphors while their all-consuming goals fade away into the landscape. Road to Nowhere ups the ante by pretending to tell several stories at once: one about the production of a film (also called Road to Nowhere), another about the crime the film is based on, and a third involving a mysterious video-recorded conversation between the film's director and the blogger whose reporting formed the basis for the film. However, the various strands, which are intentionally not differentiated, don't...

Updated through 6/10.

To Hellman and Back: An Evening with Monte Hellman is set for this evening at the Walter Reade Theater, and here's how the New York Times' Dave Kehr recommends you be there if you can: "The undisputed master of the existential road movie (Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971) will be present for a 6 pm sneak preview of his new feature, Road to Nowhere, to be followed by a rare screening of Mr Hellman's magnificently bleak adaptation of Charles Willeford's novel Cockfighter, starring Warren Oates as an itinerant gambler. A discussion with Mr Hellman follows the screening, as does a book party celebrating the reissue of the Willeford novel from PictureBox Books."

"Combining an almost quaint self-reflexiveness with state-of-the-art digital filmmaking, Road concerns the production of a film based on a controversial lovers' double-suicide in North Carolina," explains Nick Pinkerton in the Voice. "Director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) is determined to...

The South by Southwest Film Festival announced its feature film line-up Wednesday, piling heaps of cinematic goodness on an already stellar program that includes Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, Duncan Jones’ Source Code, Ti West’s The Innkeepers, Conan O’Brien’s tour documentary, and the latest Simon Pegg-Nick Frost comedy, Paul, with Seth Rogen.

Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) returns to the festival with her latest film, Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried, after the writer-director spoke on a screenwriting panel in 2009.

Plus a few favorites from the Sundance Film Festival last month, like Tom McCarthy’s Win Win, Morgan Spurlock’s The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, and Max Winkler’s Ceremony.

I’m extremely excited, even if I’m already having flashbacks to intense sleep deprivation. Like the last two years, I’ll be on the ground covering as much of the festival as I can within the packed 9 days of screenings,...

‘Tapping into the cultural zeitgeist,’ at SXSW 2011

Austin, Texas – The SXSW 2011 Feature Film Lineup was unveiled Wednesday afternoon. The festival lineup will consist of 130 features, in nine full days of programming, promising to deliver a film-going experience unlike previous years.

With a reputation for taking chances on relatively unknown filmmakers, the SXSW panel of judges carefully picked 130 films from 1,792 feature-length film submissions, (1,323 U.S. and 469 international). The program consists of 60 World Premieres, 12 North American Premieres and 16 U.S. Premieres.

The main competition categories return with eight Narrative Features, and eight Documentary Features, both competing for their respective Grand Jury Prize. New for films in competition this year, are awards for screenplay, editing, cinematography, music, and acting.

(The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week.)

Here are a few of the Features to be screened, among many others.

Narratives:

The Beaver (World Premiere)

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Readers of Sound On Sight can be sure that we will indeed be covering the SXSW Film Festival once again. As previously reported, Duncan Jones’ latest film Source Code is opening the festival and there will also be premieres for the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, Greg Mottola’s Paul, and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver. Now the full line-up has been announced it is incredible.

Hit the jump to check out the line-up, and be sure to visit our site during the event.

The 2011 SXSW Film Festival runs from March 11 – 19th in Austin, Texas.

SXSW Film Announces 2011 Features Lineup

Austin, Texas – February 2, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers.

The South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced this year's features lineup. The festival takes place March 11-19 in Austin, Texas.

There are a total of 130 features screening this year including 60 world premieres, 12 North American premieres and 16 U.S. premieres! This year the a total of 1,792 feature-length films were submitted, which is the most ever.

There are going to be some amazing films shown this yea. Opening night kicks off with Duncan Jones' Source Code (Moon). The fest rolls on with Jodie Foster‘s The Beaver, Greg Mottola‘s Paul, Sundance Grand Prize doc winner How to Die in Oregon, Errol Morris‘ Tabloid, Victoria Mahoney‘s Yelling to the Sky, Azazel Jacob‘s Terri. There will also be a special screening of Catherine Hardwicke‘s Red Riding Hood.

The Midnight and SXFantastic sections will be announced with the shorts program next week.

See the complete lineup below via...

The South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) just announced their entire 2011 feature film lineup, and there’s isn’t a lot of note, with regards to this blog’s focus.

Titles you should be aware of – all of which we’ve previously profiled on Shadow And Act – include, Victoria Mahoney’s feature film debut, Yelling To The Sky (which will actually make its world debut at the Berlin Film Festival later this month); plus Blacktino, the first feature film from writer/director Aaron Burns, a self-described “blacktino nerd from Austin, Texas,” who got his start at Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios doing visual effects; Benda Bilili, a documentary about a band of homeless, disabled Congolese; and last, but not least, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, a documentary about the black man that happens to be the man behind the puppet (which also played at Sundance).

There might be...

The South by Southwest Film Festival has announced their features lineup for the 2011’s Festival, which will take place March 11th to the 19th in Austin Texas. Read the full press release after the jump. SXSW Film Announces 2011 Features Lineup Austin, Texas – February 2, 2011 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 11 – 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers. The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week. “This is the most exciting moment for us. After a fantastic festival of discovery in 2010, we can finally unveil the line up for this year’s event,” says Film Conference and Festival Producer Janet Pierson. “SXSW prides itself on taking chances, sifting for...

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the features lineup for this year's Festival, March 11 - 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The 2011 lineup continues the SXSW tradition of tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, highlighting emerging talent and breakthrough performances and supporting first-time filmmakers. The Midnighters and SXFantastic feature sections, along with the short film program, will be announced next week.

"This is the most exciting moment for us. After a fantastic festival of discovery in 2010, we can finally unveil the line up for this year's event," says Film Conference and Festival Producer Janet Pierson. "SXSW prides itself on taking chances, sifting for films that are the seedlings of the next generation of must-see artists. This year's line up is full of emerging voices and filmmakers who transcended the resources they had on hand, often with an alchemist's touch."

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"Road to Nowhere," the first feature film in over two decades from acclaimed director Monte Hellman, is set for a late spring release through monterey media. Starring Shannyn Sossamon, Dominique Swain and Waylon Payne, the film premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, where Hellman was honored with the Jury Award Special Lion for Career Achievement. "Road to Nowhere" has since had a good showing in the festival circuit with ...

Screen Media has released the trailer forFlatliners producer Rick Bieber's feature directorial debut Crazy. The film played a couple dozen film festivals where it won a handfull of awards (including best film, best soundtrack, best screenplay) and is going direct to dvd. The movie starring Waylon Payne and Ali Larter tells "the compelling story of legendary music pioneer, Hank Garland, who's known as one of the greatest American musicians of the past century." Looks like the standard musical biopic. Check out the trailer embedded after the jump. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Directed By: Rick Bieber Screenplay By: Rick Bieber, Jason Ehlers, & Brent Boyd Synopsis: Brimming with the sounds and personalities of 1950s Nashville, Crazy tells the story of legendary guitar player Hank Garland who played music on his own terms with the likes of Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley. Crazy details the...

Shannyn Sossamon and Dominique have joined Cliff De Young, John Diehl, Waylon Payne and Tygh Runyan in the romantic thriller "Road to Nowhere." Film is helmed by Monte Hellman and written by Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos. The noir-styled romantic thriller tells of a young filmmaker who becomes tangled in a criminal scheme while she's making a movie on location. Dominic Swain stars as an investigative blogger who uncovers what is supposedly a true crime story on which the film is based.

Now here’s a film that should be one to keep an eye on, for all sorts of wildly varying reasons: Monte Hellman, the director of the legendary road movie, Two-Lane Blacktop, hasn’t made a movie in over 20 years, since 1989’s Blind Terror (aka Silent Night, Deadly Night 3).But – and you should be able to see this coming – the 77 year-old is back back back after his Malickian sabbatical with Road To Nowhere, an indie flick described as a romantic thriller about a filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy.That’s Reason For Interest #1. Reason For Interest #2 is the movie’s cast, for today Shannyn Sossamon and Dominique Swain, two members of the school of coulda-beens, signed on to join the already-cast Cliff De Young, John Diehl, Waylon Payne and Tygh Runyan. Sossamon and Swain were on the verge of big things a few years ago, so maybe...

In a story from Variety, Dominique Swain and Shannyn Sossamon have come aboard the cast of Monte Hellman's, Road to Nowhere.

Also starring in this film is Cliff De Young, John Diehl, Waylon Payne and Tygh Runyan. The movie follows a young filmmaker who finds themself in a criminal scheme while on location making a movie.

Swain will be an investigative blogger who finds the apparently true crime story that the film is based on. Sossamon plays the woman at the center of the story.

The film is currently shooting in Los Angeles. The screenplay was written by Steven Gaydos.

Lee Ann Womack has had a music career most could only dream of, collaborating with some of the biggest names in the business. Willie Nelson and George Strait ring a bell? But the Texas native still has at least one more person she would give anything to record with: "I'd like to work with my daughter," she tells People of her oldest child, Aubrie, 18, a musical talent just like her mom.Womack, 42, is spending part of this summer on the road, but she says that's not her only focus. "My favorite thing about summer is that the girls are out of school.