Go Greek: AFS Essential Cinema

AFS Essential Cinema: From the Shadows: Greek Independent Cinema

"...The Austin Film Society's upcoming Essential Cinema series, From the Shadows: Greek Independent Cinema, does..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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

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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'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

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 Film Series Abraham/Ibrahim Highlights Diversity and Common Ground

Spotlight on the cinema of the Middle East, North Africa

"...the foundation for the long-running Children of Abraham/Ibrahim film series, a program screened since 2007 at the AFS Cinema..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra

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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 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

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

"...The Austin Film Society’s Hello, Goodbye series – its programming send-off leading up to AFS Cinema..."

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

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

AFS Kicks Off Hitchcock Before Hollywood Series

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

"...and already showing a sure hand. In its new series Hitchcock Before Hollywood, the Austin Film Society screens four..."

April 2, 2019 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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

"...also celebrating itself for a while. On Jan. 9, AFS hosts the local premiere of Terrence Malick's highly anticipated..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

AFS and UT Press Celebrate the Legacy of CinemaTexas

Notes on cinema history

"...Notes, as edited by Austin Chronicle co-founder Louis Black, AFS Cinema is presenting CinemaTexas Rewind. The series will highlight..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Lubitsch's Last Hurrah

New AFS Essential Cinema series covers the 'Touch' from pre-war to 'Cluny Brown'

"...22-year-old actor when war broke out, Lubitsch's first directorial essential came out a month before the armistice. In 1918's..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Ciné-Varda

AFS Essential Cinema: Agnes on Agnès

"...Varnum, the curator of the Austin Film Society's upcoming series, Agnes on Agnès. Varnum, AFS' communications manager, had a..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Obsessive

AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma

"...of Brian De Palma as part of its ongoing Essential Cinema Series. The program includes De Palma's first released..."

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

Great Escapes

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 3: Films of the Middle East & North Africa

"...the Austin Film Society, as part of its ongoing Essential Cinema series, sets aside six weeks in February and..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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

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

America's Mortal Goddess

AFS Essential Cinema enchants with Marilyn Monroe

"...lone documentary of the Austin Film Society's aptly named series More Than Meets the Eye: The Life and Films..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Senegal's Père du Cinéma

AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène

"...is the subject of the Austin Film Society's upcoming series, which will screen eight of Sembène's movies – all..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Adventures in Iberia

The latest AFS Essential Cinema profiles contemporary Portuguese cinema

"...his films bookend the Austin Film Society's short new series, Viagem a Portugal: Contemporary Portuguese Cinema. 1997's Voyage to..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Intersection of Personal and Political

AFS Essential Cinema presents a miniretrospective of the films of Philippe Garrel

"...movies over the last 40 years, and still he's essentially unknown here in America...."

Nov. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...selected by the Austin Film Society for their latest Essential Cinema series drew fire for different reasons – see:..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Separate Lives

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham / Ibrahim 6

"...of the Austin Film Society's sixth iteration of its Essential Cinema series Children of Abraham/Ibrahim, Bader Ben Hirsi's A..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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