FF2012: 'Flicker'

Swedish workplace comedy tugs the heartstrings at Fantastic Fest

"...and pointless tasks finds charming life again in Sweden's Flicker, as a hapless cadre of telephone company employees contend..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flicker No.7

"...Directed by: Various.. Flicker No. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of this bimonthly..."

Feb. 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker #3

"...Directed by: Various. Flicker #3 is the latest installment of the bimonthly film..."

May 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker #one

"...Directed by: Various. Flicker #1 inaugurates this new bimonthly film festival that features..."

Jan. 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker #five

"...Directed by: Various. Flicker No. 5 is the latest installment of the bimonthly..."

Sept. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker #four

"...Directed by: Various. Flicker No. 4 is the latest installment of the bimonthly..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 12: The Second Year Anniversary Show

"...the ongoing festival's second year of operation in Austin. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

Jan. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 11

"...local and national filmmakers who submit works via mail. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

Nov. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 10

"...local and national filmmakers who submit works via mail. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

Aug. 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 8

"...local and national filmmakers who submit works via mail. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

April 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker's Got Super-8 for a Super Dad

How to buy Dad a beer for his special day but still avoid the Hooters' cliché.

"..."I didn't know it was a holiday," claims Flicker Austin über-madchen Cory Ryan. A likely story. Austin's celebrated..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Flicker's Best

Thursday, Feb. 17, 9:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown

"...California, Louisiana, France, Germany, Austin, and elsewhere. And now Flicker Austin, the little bimonthly film festival that Chapel Hill,..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Score Wars - the Phantom Flicker

"...Score Wars: The Phantom Flicker is the Cinemaker Co-op's latest conceptual film festival. A..."

Aug. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Small-Gauge Samurai

Super-8 enthusiast Cory Ryan brings Flicker to town.

"...Which brings us to Austin's Flicker Film Festival, a bimonthly mini-fest featuring short, small-gauge (Super-8..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson's extraordinary World War I documentary finds humanity in a hellish war

"...endless shelling, while the crisp, restored images no longer flicker in and out, ghostlike, but return vividly to life..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Get on Up

As James Brown, Chadwick Boseman captures the performer's voice, moves, sweat, and swagger, but this biopic, as a whole, needs a stronger compass.

"...narrative does just that, it threatens to lose its flicker of life...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

The Darkest Hour

Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.

"...Door's own breakdown of the status quo). That brief flicker of suspense in an otherwise suspense-free film quickly evaporates..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Beauty

This Oscar winner is a bleak comedy of suburban mores and one man's sudden rejection of the arrangement.

"...the myth of the suburbs and then offering a flicker of hope. It's a heady, intoxicating mix, made all..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Career Girls

"...two leads; Cartlidge and Steadman bring to light every flicker of awkwardness, indecision, anger, regret, joy, admiration, and affection..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Calendar Girl

"...that launched her career. None of this generated a flicker of recognition amongst the unofficial Jason Priestley fan club..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dragon Inn

"...striking use of the period setting: candles glow and flicker as the actors do battle cloaked in ceremonial garb,..."

Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's About Time

‘Predestination’ on a rainy Austin night is a must

"...broken dreams. Traffic lights – green, yellow, red – flicker in the rain that feels different from last time..."

March 9, 2014 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Shortcuts

Kodak's light shines down on Flicker.

"...but a recent chat with Cory Ryan of the Flicker Austin Film Fest revealed that Kodak, far from hedging..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2

You have to wonder about some of these people

"...The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Short Cuts

Upcoming summer filmmaking activities

"...the third incarnation of the local arm of the Flicker Film Festival will be held this Sunday, May 20,..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

South by Southwest announces 2001 call for festival volunteer workers, and other news and events of interest to the local film community.

"...borr@jump.net for more information... I mentioned the bimonthly, Austin-based Flicker Film Festival in this column a while back, but..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Tim League and Harry Knowles team up to screen good movies for good causes.

"...these blessed events as they arise... Shameless Plug Dept.: Flicker Austin head Cory Ryan has finally assembled a nifty..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The President's Analyst (1967)

The young, strong James Coburn was at the absolute height of his own particular cool in The President's Analyst, a film that warrants second-breath mention behind The Graduate and even Dr. Strangelove as a monumental Sixties improvisational comedy.

"...D: Theodore J. Flicker; with James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney,..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Short Cuts

Cast & crew calls for two upcoming productions, plus get Dad drunk in Super-8 style.

"...See www.cinemaker.org or call 236-8877 for more info... Finally, Flicker Austin is hosting their ninth small-gauge mini-fest at the..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

The Alamo Drafthouse is feelin' alright, while the rest of Austin isn't feeling too good itself.

"...well as other additions to the lineup, including the Flicker Austin Film Fest, which has moved its quarterly screenings..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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