AFS Cinema
6259 Middle Fiskville, 512/686-3823
This two-screen theatre, owned and operated by the Austin Film Society, shows a mix of new releases and revival screenings of documentary, arthouse, classics restorations, world cinema, and more. Full bar and upscale concessions on site.
The history of world cinema teems with “new waves” that symbolized electrifying new directions – in technique, in the kinds of stories being told, and in the people doing the telling. In Taiwan, that New Wave revved up in the early Eighties with Edward Yang at the wheel. Austin Film Society’s new Essential Cinema presents a rare look at Yang’s filmography, which has grown in stature since his early death at 59 from colon cancer. Series kickoff Taipei Story (1985) stars Hou Hsiao-hsien, fellow titan of New Taiwanese Cinema, as a former star baseball player stuck in the past and at odds with his more modern-minded girlfriend, played by Tsai Chin, a pop singer who would become Yang’s first wife. – Kimberley Jones Tue., March 19; Fri.-Sat., March 22-23.
- 2021: Readers Most Innovative Pivot (Austin Film Society’s Sundance Film Festival drive-in series)
- 2017: Critics Best "It's Not an Art House, It's an Art Home"
- 2015: Critics Best Movie Theatre You Should Go to More Often (The Marchesa)
- 2013: Critics Film Fanatics' Favorite New Clubhouse (AFS at the Marchesa)