Matthew McConaughey asks if you d like to go to the cinema (it would be a lot cooler if you did .)
The Oscars may have gone out with a fizzle, but they started with a very Austin bang starring both Matthew McConaughey and the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. The pre-awards section of the evening featured a video celebrating the film industry s #TheBigScreenIsBack campaign encouraging audiences to head back to theatres as they reopen and build back to full post-pandemic hours over the summer. Featured front and center were the putative future candidate for governor of Texas and the Drafthouse s mother ship location itself.
Seventeen-year-old Lucie Fouble is the sensation of the Oscar award-winning documentary,
Colette, which follows 93-year-old former resistance fighter, Colette Marin Catherine, to the concentration camp Nordhausen-Dora, where her brother Jean-Pierre was assassinated. Nordhausen-Dora, a dependency of the Buchenwald camp, is notably where Wernher Von Braun, father of the space conquest, developed the V2 missile. Buchenwald was also where prominent French aircraft designer, Marcel Dassault, refused even in front of the gas chamber to collaborate to the fabrication of a future Franco-German interceptor which would likely have changed the course of the war in Germany’s favor. Lucie Fouble is currently working on the