SXSW SCREENS HOOPER’S “EGGSHELLS”
Celebrating the work of one of Austin’s filmmaking treasures, Toby Hooper, SXSW will be screening his little know first film, Eggshells. In this week’s Austin Chronicle, Louis Black, co-founder/editor of the paper and SXSW, writes about the film, which hasn’t been screened in close to four decades. An excerpt from the story: There were many extraordinary talents that worked on [Texas] Chainsaw [Massacre], including cinematographer Daniel Pearl; Hooper’s co-writer, Kim Henkel; art and production designer Robert Burns; and Wayne Bell doing sound. Even though, in so many ways, it is clearly a director’s movie in that all the elements are […]