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And here's part two of our tweet roundup of South By Southwest. Check out part one here.

MUD: The McConaughey goes feral and lovestruck in this terrific coming of age drama by the director of TAKE SHELTER #sxsw

— Yahoo! Movies (@YahooMovies) March 10, 2013

GettySouth By Southwest. It's like Comic Con for film geeks, music mavens and tech nerds only better barbeque. On the film side, there were plenty of highlights from big-budget fare like "Evil Dead" and "Spring Breakers" to smaller flicks like "Rewind This!" and "Snap." If you couldn't make it out to Austin, or if you're an Austin local who decided not to leave the house, check out this tweet roundup of the fest:

South By Southwest. It's like Comic Con for film geeks, music mavens and tech nerds only better barbeque. On the film side, there were plenty of highlights from big-budget fare like "Evil Dead" and "Spring Breakers" to smaller flicks like "Rewind This!" and "Snap."
If you couldn't make it out to Austin, or if you're an Austin local who decided not to leave the house, check out this tweet roundup of the fest:

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"I had actually never seen 'Jersey Shore' before I wrote this, and that's the truth," said Joseph Gordon-Levitt to me the other day at an interview during South by Southwest.

We were talking about "Don Jon" (nee "Don Jon’s Addiction"), which he wrote, directed, and starred in. The movie concerns a meathead lothario hailing from New Jersey who loves his family, the church, and his sweet ride. But his real passions are trolling cheesy nightclubs for that perfect 10 and trolling the Internet for that perfect porn video. And yes, he and his buddies tend to sport the same overgelled hair stylings and douchtastic duds favored by the Situation and company.

The Paramount Theater (Getty Images)As the film portion of Austin's sprawling South By Southwest festival winds down, check out five films that people will be talking about:

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"I think I need to take my clothes off."

That's what Olivia Wilde told director Joe Swanberg at one point while shooting her latest movie "Drinking Buddies." After the movie's premiere at SXSW this weekend, I had a chance to talk with Wilde, Swanberg, and the rest of the cast during a private meet-and-greet.

Mobra FilmRomanian director Cristian Mungiu's last movie, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," was about a pair of women struggling to live under the insane policies of Cold War-era strongman Nicolae Ceausescu. It's an austere, chilly, impossibly tense masterpiece, though from personal experience, a terrible date movie.  Mungiu's follow-up movie -- "Beyond the Hills" -- doesn't evoke that nation's Communist past but its marginally less dysfunctional present; the story is based on a real-life event that took place in 2005.

Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska in 'Stoker' (Photo: Fox Searchlight)

If Wes Anderson and Edward Gorey got together to make "Shadow of a Doubt," that movie would be "Stoker." Of course, it wasn't directed by either Anderson or Gorey, but by auteur Park Chan-wook - the guy who famously had his protagonist devour a live octopus for his breakout, Cannes-winning hit movie "Old Boy." Park made a name for himself in his native South Korea with a series of brilliant and increasingly baroque movies about cruelty, lust, and vengeance that always successfully rode the line between spine-tingling suspense and overwrought insanity. For his first English-language movie - which stars Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman - Park mines very similar territory, even if the script was penned by "Prison Break" star Wentworth Miller.