AFS Doc Days Gets Cool With Miles Davis

Three day celebration of true tales returns for second year

"...Doc Days, the Austin Film Society's documentary mini-festival, comes back..."

April 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Brings the Legend’s Legacy to AFS Doc Days

Biographical documentary captures the transformational jazz genius

"...The biographical documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool features acclaimed filmmaker..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Austin Film Society’s Doc Days Returns

Third edition opens with Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground

"...Austin Film Society’s Doc Days, a celebration of the best in filmmaking’s true..."

Sept. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Katherine McNevins

AFS Doc Nights: 'How to Survive a Plague'

When desperate times called for desperate measures

"...all that terribly concerned about it. Those were the days, you will recall, of the Bush père administration and..."

May 10, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

AFS Grant Winner Over the Rainbow Explores Scientology Beyond the Drama

Finding empathy where there is none

"...her own world, like the subjects of Jeffrey Peixoto's documentary Over the Rainbow, which explores the lives of Scientologists;..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Britt Hayes

Around the World in 519 Terrifying Days

'Maidentrip' circles back to Austin for Doc Nights

"...sail only 24 hours over the course of 12 days. After you've shared experiences like these with 14-year-old Dutch..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

AFS Cinema Announces Reopening Date, First Lineup of Films

The arthouse mecca brings new titles, immortal classics

"...Mark your calendar: July 15. AFS Cinema, the two-screen theatre operated by Austin Film Society,..."

June 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc Recommends: Micro Championship Wrestling

AFS Cinema, Friday, August 6, 2010

"...in the buff … while coated in oil. These days that sort of thing only happens at financially distressed..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Luv Doc: Being Circumspect

A stupid, irritating, or contemptible person

"...Dear Luv Doc,..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Column by Luv Doc

SXSW Doc Rewinds the Truly Horrible The Star Wars Holiday Special

Wookies go Vaudeville in A Disturbance in the Force

"...things that were made at the same time,” explained documentarian Jeremy Coon. “The reason it’s worse is because it’s..."

March 10, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Hosts an Andrew Bujalski Twofer

‘Computer Chess’ director screens his first film and an old favorite

"...the influential photographer William J. Eggleston for his 1973 documentary Stranded in Canton, an immersive portrait of Memphis and..."

Aug. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

The life and pain of the jazz great in his own words and music

"...as large as his contribution to music. Stanley Nelson’s documentary aims to examine that cultural legacy. The birth of..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

True Life, Unfiltered

New mini-fest AFS Doc Days scours the globe for fresh viewpoints

"...Austin Film Society is finally providing that specialty with Doc Days, bringing new and unexpected viewpoints about regional life..."

May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

When the Sixties Was Happening on FM Radio

AFS Doc Night: 'Radio Unnameable'

"...other. One unique feature about Radio Unnameable, particularly in the early days, is that people would drop by the studio unannounced...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Artist Will See You Now

AFS Doc Night screens Marina Abramović portrait

"...MA: Several things. She has energy for days. She works as hard as anyone else that's made..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Cold Case Hammarskjöld Uncovers a Crime Too Terrible to Stay Buried

An assassination to hide an atrocity

"...The unassuming Danish documentarian has more than flirted with danger in search of..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Recommended Austin Arts Events

Our weekly pick of the top art events to get you out of the house

"...historical pilgrimage itself: Conspirare's Path of Miracles premieres 600 days after the company's last in-person concert...."

Oct. 15, 2021 Arts Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

Glastonbury

The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.

"...sweep and stubborn longevity as England's Glastonbury Festival, this documentary begins with a solemn, stentorian narrator recalling the history..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Todd Haynes Melds Sound and Vision in The Velvet Underground

New music documentary reframes the New York quartet as experimenters and innovators

"...the essay in his press notes for his new documentary The Velvet Underground (screening this weekend as part of..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...they are funding this year, as part of their AFS Grant program...."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

New French Cinema Week Displays a Nation’s Artistic Resilience

Vive la nouvelle France at AFS Cinema

"...forefront of their yearly fest to Austin for four days of eight feature films, an animated shorts program, with..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Boxing Gym

Famed documentary maker Frederick Wiseman directs his camera on Richard Lord's Austin boxing gym.

"...Directed by: Frederick Wiseman. Doc-maker laureate Frederick Wiseman's latest, filmed locally at Lord's Gym,..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Into Thin Air and Back

AFS Documentary Tour presents Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains

"...knowledge of the subject of Uruguayan filmmaker Gonzalo Arijón's doc Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Do Not Resist Charts the Rise of the Militarization of Law Enforcement

Documentary offers a critical look at evolving present-day policing efforts

"...the backdrop, the first scenes of Craig Atkinson's police documentary Do Not Resist threaten violence, staged on the protest-filled..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)

Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.

"...begun to blur, The War Room is the Oscar-nominated documentary that focussed not on the promising candidate from Arkansas..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Got Philosophy?

AFS Documentary Tour presents Examined Life

"...Obviously, a doc pitched to a general audience with this conceit could..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release

Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych

"...call director Penelope Spheeris one of the most influential documentary filmmakers in the history of cinema isn't hyperbole, it's..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Little Eclectic

Texas Documentary Tour brings Immy Humes to town.

"...different: "A Little Vicious" (1991), a tragicomedy (and Oscar-nominated documentary short) about a pit bull on death row. The..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Bee Worth Buzzing About

Texas Documentary Tour presents the Oscar-nominated Spellbound.

"...explains why rookie filmmaker Jeff Blitz's first feature and doc also walked off with an Oscar nomination, to boot...."

June 6, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Will Pay Cash for Film

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund underwrites independent film and video

"...in a culturally rich environment like Austin, narrative and documentary film- and videomakers often find themselves scrambling at the..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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