Go Greek: AFS Essential Cinema

AFS Essential Cinema: From the Shadows: Greek Independent Cinema

"...Mention the phrase "Greek cinema" to most people, and you're likely to hear more..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Small World and Blurred Boundaries: AFS Essential Cinema

Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema

"...the mess in Mexico when it programmed this month's Essential Cinema Series, Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema, isn't..."

April 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFS Essential Cinema

Wild Reeds: Moving Images of Growing Up

Sept. 2, 2005 Screens Feature

AFS Essential Cinema

AFS presents the sequel to one of its most provocative Essential Cinema series programs from last year

"...presents the sequel to one of its most provocative Essential Cinema series programs from last year. Children of Abraham/Ibrahim..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFS Essential Cinema

Spaces Between Realities: The Films of Michael Haneke

"...the next two months, as part of its ongoing Essential Cinema series, the Austin Film Society will be showing..."

March 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema

Sept. 4-Oct. 9

"...opens the next edition of the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema series, Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema (1958-1965),..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFS Essential's Torn From the Motherland: Films From the African Diaspora

Oct. 23-Nov. 20

"...this month, with the latest version of their ongoing Essential Cinema series, Torn From the Motherland: Films From the..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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

The Lights Are On at AFS Cinema

After 16 months of closure, the arthouse indie cinema reopens this weekend

"...Mark your calendars and grab your seat. AFS Cinema, the Austin Film Society's two-screen theatre, is back...."

July 16, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Champion of the World Cinema

Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam

"...reference he made to Bollywood or obscure, untranslated Mexican cinema – references I'll probably never fully understand. Let no..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

'World' Cinema

Three-month series AFS@Dobie launches with latest Jia Zhangke film

"...once again at the Dobie with the appropriately titled AFS@Dobie, a three-month series that will feature a new independent..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AFS Selects "Le Havre"

AFS and the Violet Crown initiate AFS Selects series with Le Havre

"...AFS Selects is the name of a new partnership between..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFS Turns Over A New Leaf Tonight

Hello, Goodbye series continues with Elaine May comedy

"...Goodbye series – its programming send-off leading up to AFS Cinema shuttering for renovations next month – continues tonight..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...creations with titles like Square Versus Rhomboid. This month, AFS Cinema paints a different picture, with bold adventures and..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Celebrates Its 20th, and You Can, Too!

"...20, and, in January, the world-class safe house for cinema of all stripes from Austin to abroad will ramp..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

AFS Film Series Abraham/Ibrahim Highlights Diversity and Common Ground

Spotlight on the cinema of the Middle East, North Africa

"...film series, a program screened since 2007 at the AFS Cinema in partnership with the Center...."

Feb. 17, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

AFS and UT Press Celebrate the Legacy of CinemaTexas

Notes on cinema history

"...doesn't come from nowhere. Its seeds were planted in CinemaTexas, the film programming unit of UT's Department of Radio-Television-Film...."

Feb. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Kicks Off Hitchcock Before Hollywood Series

April 4 film includes tea, vintage records, and themed photo booth

"...If you can only catch one film in AFS’ series, you might want to go with the first,..."

April 2, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Exploring the Auteurs of Early Black Cinema

AFS screens rare and influential selections from the Pioneers of African-American Cinema

"...Society will screen pivotal selections from Pioneers of African-American Cinema, a war chest of seminal "race" films by early..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

AFS's Other Minds, Other Worlds

Global Sci-Fi Cinema

"...Michael Haneke's extended bourgeois nightmare, the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema Series is wisely shaking the dust of this..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

New Taiwanese Cinema Exposes a Secret History

A rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece A City of Sadness

"...Filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is a mainstay of New Taiwanese Cinema, and the current retrospective at AFS Cinema, presented in..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Screens Feature by Julian DeBerry

Swimming in Summer Cinema

So many series, so little time

"...Cinema East..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Five Essential Films at the Austin Asian American Film Festival

Across nations and diasporas, AAAFF explores the most intriguing, experimental, and entertaining movies from Asian filmmakers

"...Austin Asian American Film Festival runs through June 25, AFS Cinema, 6259 Middle Fiskville. Tickets and passes at aaafilmfest.org...."

June 23, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ciné-Varda

AFS Essential Cinema: Agnes on Agnès

"...Austin Film Society's upcoming series, Agnes on Agnès. Varnum, AFS' communications manager, had a background in documentary film study..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...to come, so thematically the first Austin Film Society Essential Cinema series of the new year is right on..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"...war is anxious, individualistic (crushingly so), and altogether mad. AFS Essential Cinema Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4

"...film program, Children of Abraham/Ibrahim, as part of the Essential Cinema series. Yet here we are, three years older,..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Obsessive

AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma

"...It's been 40 years since cinematic enfant terrible, postmodern jokester, and aspiring "American Godard" Brian..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...a cherished souvenir. This summer the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema film series visits the Asian continent, with stops..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Adventures in Iberia

The latest AFS Essential Cinema profiles contemporary Portuguese cinema

"...which makes his inclusion in any conversation about contemporary cinema something of a jaw-dropper. But there he is, still..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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