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Neo Noir Is the New Black

There is something unsettling in the air. A man in a fedora is on a mission with a cigarette in hand, yearning to uncover a dark secret, all while trying to resist the charm of a seductive woman. Put it all together, and we can only be certain of two things: this won't end well, and we are in the company of noir.

6:30PM Sun. Oct. 27, 2013, Neha Aziz Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Announces Jury and Screenplay Awards

Though the 20th anniversary Austin Film Festival runs through Thursday, Oct. 31, you don't have to wait for some of the biggest news.

5:39PM Sun. Oct. 27, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

The Comforts of 'Veronica Mars'

Any Veronica Mars panel without the show’s star, Kristen Bell, feels sub par, but creator Rob Thomas and actor Chris Lowell gave fans enough scoop to keep interests piqued.

11:55AM Sun. Oct. 27, 2013, James Renovitch Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Hippo Campus, Hotline TNT

ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Black Auteur Film Festival at AFS Cinema

Dog Day Afternoon
at Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Building a 'Castle'

Amid all the talk of writing, creating, building, doing, funding, and pitching going on at Austin Film Festival this week, at least two writers want to remind you that sometimes what you don't say is just as important as what you do.

9:00AM Sun. Oct. 27, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Feel a Draft?

Today, the coolest part of the Austin Film Festival is tucked back in the north end of the Driskill Hotel mezzanine. Meet the Writers Guild Foundation's Scribble-to-Screen exhibit.

2:45PM Sat. Oct. 26, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Small Screen, Smashing News

I say, good show! We've accumulated enough British TV news over the past few weeks that we decided it'd be best to put it in one place.

11:35AM Sat. Oct. 26, 2013, Monica Riese Read More | Comment »

Show and Tell With Rian Johnson

They didn’t look all that remarkable – just two tiny, weather-beaten notebooks – but these artifacts steered much of the conversation at Friday morning’s Script-to-Screen discussion with Rian Johnson about his first film, Brick, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

9:30AM Sat. Oct. 26, 2013, Kimberley Jones Read More | Comment »

Jesse Dayton Bloodies Up for Housecore Horror

It was a sweaty afternoon in the Mohawk. Onstage, there're three burlesque dancers doing the bump and grind for a pit full of metal heads. John Doe from X is working the bar. Out in the corridor, eyes on the monitor, is local roots rocker-turned-film director Jesse Dayton. "That was a good day," he recalls. "It was hectic, but it was fun."

8:00AM Sat. Oct. 26, 2013, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

A Conversation With Jeff Nichols

Arkansas native-turned-Austinite Jeff Nichols knew without a shadow of a doubt he wanted to be a filmmaker. While growing up in Little Rock, his father would take him to the movies instead of on fishing trips.

3:30PM Fri. Oct. 25, 2013, Neha Aziz Read More | Comment »

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