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..."

July 16, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Cinema Presents Two Asian Film Classics for the Holidays

In single takes, Yi Yi and Tokyo Story explore the true meaning of family

"...Tokyo Story was released in 1953, the film didn't immediately gain worldwide traction as international distributors found the film..."

Dec. 27, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Five Films Not to Miss at Indie Meme 2022

The best of South Asian cinema, right here in Austin

"...like more people are waking up to the idea that there's more to South Asian cinema than Bollywood -..."

April 14, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: AFS Cinema

Let's get the lights back on for the Next Picture Show

"...Like many artists, Austin's creative community is increasingly turning to crowdfunding platforms to cover..."

May 21, 2021 Screens Column by David Brendan Hall

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 Stanley Nelson flattening the chronology and scope..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

AFS Invites You to a Sundance at Pioneer Farms

Festival brings drive-in screenings plus special streaming panels

"...this year, it’s also selected a series of partner organizations like AFS around the country to act as satellite..."

Jan. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki

"...For years, animation fans looking for alternatives to Disney felt like their..."

July 5, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Films to Watch at Cine Las Americas

Oscar contenders, Austin stories, and global tales from the Latinx, Portugeuse, and Indigenous communities

"...Latinx cinema is global cinema. That's the remit and message..."

June 10, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces 2019 Feature Grant Recipients

Over $100,000 in cash and aid for next generation of filmmakers

"...difference between an abandoned project and a completed movie. That's why the Austin Film Society Grants are such a..."

Sept. 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces Short Film Grant Recipients

Society breaks $2 million in assistance to filmmakers

"...with short films, which are often the seed of great careers. That's why the Austin Film Society's grant program..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Head at Austin Studios as the Facility Enters a New Era

Martin Jones leads the Austin Film Society-run facility into the next decade

"...and will lead the Austin Film Society-run facility into what the nonprofit sees as a new era...."

Dec. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Halloween at the Movies

Your ultimate guide to spooky season screenings in Austin

"...PANIC AT THE PARAMOUNT..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFS Announces Filmmakers for its Artist Intensive Program

Rising directors meet with industry experts to finesse future films

"...After a two-year hiatus due to Covid, Austin Film Society is bringing back..."

May 11, 2022 Screens Post by Dina Barrish

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

Oct. 23-Nov. 20

"...In 586BC, the Israelis were expelled from their homeland by the Babylonians and scattered to the four corners..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Building a Film Community at Renegade Studios

Austin filmmakers create a one-stop production space in Taylor

"...horrors like Sacrament and Starry Eyes, when his first feature as a director, Camera Obscura, came out in 2017..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dazed & Confused Celebrates 30th Anniversary With AFS and the Round Rock Express

The Austin classic gets its own bobblehead night and screening

"...It's been 30 years since Richard Linklater first proved there was more to him than the..."

July 10, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

16 Experimentalists to Help You Get Weird at SXSW

"...Perlas, 10:30pm Like the flash lives of cybernetic circuitry hatched by Louis and Bebe Barron of Forbidden Planet fame,..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Rick Weaver

Qmmunity: Take Me Home, Country Queers

OUTlaw Pride Festival declares there's nothin' more outlaw than being queer in country music

"...One event worthy of your awareness is this Saturday's second annual OUTlaw Pride Festival, put on by Pearlsnap..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Column by James Scott

AFS Preston Sturges Retrospective Schedule

"...in the Austin Film Society series "Unfaithfully Yours: The Satire of Preston Sturges." All showings are on Tuesdays at..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Searching for New Heights at Film Fests Reel Rock 14 and Reel Plastic

Two rock-climbing film fest come to Austin

"...With sport climbing's debut at the 2020 Olympic Games a little more than half..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

Yen Tan Sets a Timeless Drama Against the AIDS Crisis at SXSW Film

A different spirit of Christmas in Dallas filmmaker's 1985

"...Like all good stories about death, 1985 is full of life. Dallas-based director Yen Tan's..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Quiet on the Set: Filmmakers on Shooting and Working at Austin Studios

As told to Richard Whittaker

"..."I started interning back in 2001, so that makes me feel super old. And I was also..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Screens Feature

Gazing at the Texas Film Awards Through a Crystal Ball

The Texas Film Awards celebrate the state's best filmmaking

"...say the 15th anniversary is the crystal anniversary, and that's what the Texas Film Awards will be celebrating on..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Protocols of Zion

Documentary filmmaker Marc Levin investigates the reasons for the recent renaissance of American anti-Semitism; sadly, the end result is scattershot and never really elucidates or poses solutions to the problem.

"...to "go do good" as the inscription on his grandfather's tombstone says, with this investigative feature about the reasons..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Society Pages

Reading the next chapter of the Austin Film Society's playbook

"...superstar film programmers. So even though he'd probably blush at the title, when Lars Nilsen announced earlier this year..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Takes Over the Marchesa

Lincoln Village site to become permanent two-screen cinema

"...It was kind of obvious, really. When Richard Linklater let it slip just before SXSW that the Austin..."

May 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pluck of the Irish

AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking

"...of storytellers – "an Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination," quoth native son George Bernard Shaw – and yet..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

It's a Wrap: A Life in Front of Dad's Camera

AFS Documentary Tour: The Kids Grow Up

"...squinting through a viewfinder will certainly grok Doug Block's latest film, The Kids Grow Up. Obviously for a filmmaker,..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Bridesmaid

Claude Chabrol's latest film is based on a Ruth Rendell novel and, though not one of his best films, is still a good reminder of the madness that sometimes lurks in plain sight.

"...Mihalcea, Michel Duchaussoy and Suzanne Flon. You might think that by now the men of France and America had..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Society Announces Recipients for Feature Film Grants

$110,000 distributed to 15 Texas projects

"...can be a tough hurdle on an indie filmmaker’s path to finishing a project. For the recipients of the..."

Sept. 12, 2023 Screens Post by Mae Lackey

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