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Austin Film Festival Review: Long Live Death

German crime thriller Long Live Death kicks off with a throwback: a very Seventies credit sequence, all brutal close-ups and blaring horn sections. But that kitsch disappears the instant the camera shifts to hood-eyed detective Felix Murot (Ulrich Tukur), gazing with broken disinterest at yet another murder scene.

7:15PM Wed. Oct. 19, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: Two Trains Runnin'

Freedom Summer began in June 1964. Yet alongside the Northern college students who famously traveled to the South to work in the voter-registration drives and the movement to end the country’s Jim Crow laws, another cultural train sallied forth: the reclamation of forgotten black blues musicians.

4:40PM Wed. Oct. 19, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: The Cliff

From Rosemary's Baby to The Sacrament, filmmakers have been obsessed with the twisted vision of cults. Austin Film Festival Dark Matters Features competition jury award winner The Cliff (aka Acantilado) continues the tradition with a distinctly Iberian twist.

1:30PM Tue. Oct. 18, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Red Shoes + Black Swan

Paramount Theatre

Squirrel Flower, Free Range, Lefty Parker at Hole in the Wall

Craft at the Umlauf: Paper Filigree With Michael Velliquette at Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Austin Film Festival Review: The Big Spoon

You’re in love, you’re cohabitating, you’re sharing your life with another person, and then you realize it’s a match made nowhere near heaven. Or at least it’s no longer sustainable.

1:00PM Tue. Oct. 18, 2016, Jessi Cape Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: Chronesthesia

A total head-trip of a movie in all the right ways, this feature debut from New Zealand filmmaker Hayden J. Weal deftly sidesteps genre boundaries and comes up feeling utterly unique.

12:15PM Tue. Oct. 18, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: Brave New Jersey

Tonight might be our last night on Earth. That’s what the good residents of Lullaby, N.J., believe on the eventful night of Oct. 30, 1938.

4:55PM Mon. Oct. 17, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Film Review: Homestate

Such an entrancing surfeit of warmth and homegrown values is contained within the Austin-set Homestate. Thanks to a synchronized quartet of stellar local actors, this brief, lovely drama from writers Blaise Miller and David Hickey (who also directed) defies expectations of quality for films of such minute scope.

1:45PM Mon. Oct. 17, 2016, Sean L. Malin Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: Gimme Danger

Ann Arbor proto-punk godheads Iggy Pop and the Stooges remain as iconic today as they ever were, and this Jim Jarmusch documentary is a loving, loud, and thoroughly entertaining tribute to the band and their dirty, gutter-glam influence.

1:15PM Mon. Oct. 17, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Festival Review: Holding Patterns

A holding pattern is the polite way to describe Charlie’s current situation. In his mid-20s and living with his parents, Charlie is employed as the assistant manager of the local movie theatre. His life demands little from him – or he from it. Then, his feelings for a girl breaks through the inertia.

7:30PM Sun. Oct. 16, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

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