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Nov. 4, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Society Pages
Reading the next chapter of the Austin Film Society's playbook
"..."I always felt like I was in debt to AFS for everything they had done for me."..."
June 21, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Austin Film Society Announces 2015 Grants
Newcomers and established names get AFS boost
"...Austin Film Society announces the winners of the 2015 AFS Grants, there are a lot more narratives and documentaries,..."
Sept. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Losing It at the Movies
AFS Programming Director Chale Nafus on a life in film
"...– a better class of broad. Convening in the AFS trailer at Austin Studios for a third collaboration four..."
July 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez
Out of the Eyes of Babes
AFS and AISD bring young filmmakers into focus
"...Film Society and Austin ISD present 20 films from AFS Film Club, a program that allows children from underfunded..."
Jan. 19, 2018 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman
Lars Nilsen Joins Austin Film Society
Drafthouse programmer bolsters AFS team, plus new Marchesa home
"...their programming team. And it's a big Wednesday for AFS too, as they sign a new deal with the..."
Feb. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
'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
Austin Film Society Takes Over the Marchesa
Lincoln Village site to become permanent two-screen cinema
"...they share at the Marchesa Hall & Theatre. Now AFS has confirmed that's the location, and has hired a..."
May 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Austin Film Society Hiring Theatre Manager
No details on location of new two-screen cinema
"...will be opening a two-screen cinema this year. Now AFS is hiring a general manager for the theatre, but..."
March 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Austin Film Society Joins Kino Lorber's Art House Streaming Experiment
Cannes-lauded Brazilian drama Bacurau will be first film
"...every other cinema in Austin, the Austin Film Society's AFS Cinema is shuttered. However, there's closed, and then there's..."
March 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns
AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40
"...the groundwork for Austin's film appreciation culture, and now AFS is paying tribute with a short season of the..."
Nov. 22, 2019 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
The Cinema of Dual Citizens
In the upcoming series Driven into Paradise: European Émigré Directors 1933-1950, the Austin Film Society will be screening (at the Alamo Drafthouse) six classic films reflecting the ethical sensibilities and aesthetic innovations of these exiled masters.
"...Most, though not all, of the films in the AFS series fit into the genre later dubbed film noir,..."
April 18, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff
Fine China
The latest Austin Film Society free series examines the cinema of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers.
"...be revisited in all of the films in the AFS series: the resiliency of women, the rift between the..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff
Austin Film Society Announces 2022 Filmmaker Grant Recipients
Projects from PJ Raval, Don Swaynos to financial support
"...For over two and a half decades, the AFS Filmmaker Grants having been changing careers and lives by..."
Sept. 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Short & Sweet: “The Cheap Seats”
Docudrama finds spirited stories in the psychic capital of Florida
"...capital of the world. The short screens tonight at AFS Cinema as part of the AFS Member ShortCase...."
July 18, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood
Short & Sweet: “I Know the End”
AFS Member ShortCase tonight highlights death and faith
"...working in end-of-life care. The short screens tonight at AFS Cinema as part of the AFS Member ShortCase...."
July 18, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood
Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners
Recipients show strength and diversity of Texas filmmakers
"...down with the list of recipients of the 2018 AFS Grants truly reflecting that state’s talent pool...."
Sept. 5, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
True Life, Unfiltered
New mini-fest AFS Doc Days scours the globe for fresh viewpoints
"...regional life in the U.S. and beyond. Holly Herrick, AFS's head of film and creative media, said, "The stories..."
May 11, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Divine Decadence, Darling
AFS presents the dark musicals of Bob Fosse
"...Sweet Charity (1969) @AFS Cinema, Friday (8/4), 7pm; Sunday (8/6), 4:30pm..."
Aug. 4, 2017 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
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
Austin Film Society Announces Grant Jury
Meet the team that will fund the next wave of Texas film
"...film projects will receive financial grants from not only AFS, but also Dell and Kodak. Let's meet them, shall..."
July 10, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki
Pluck of the Irish
AFS Essential Cinema hand-picks four nights of rare Irish filmmaking
"...and translate easily to American audiences." Instead, this new AFS series zeros in on lesser-seen films, not so easily..."
Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Run Away With the Circus
AFS hosts big-top screenings at the Marchesa
"...we settle into our new tent at the Marchesa," AFS is hosting five circus-themed films at that new home..."
June 28, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese
The Many Faces of Janus
AFS Essential Cinema series presents a wild lineup
"...one of the porniest movies ever to bear the AFS imprimatur (and that's not even getting to the radical..."
April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Tears of the Black Tiger
This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.
"...it killed in 2001 – now it’s playing the AFS@Dobie series – Tears is part melodrama and part spaghetti..."
Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Keys to Spike Lee: Ashley Clark on Bamboozled
AFS screening and signing unpacks Spike Lee's ugliest and most misunderstood movie
"...overlooked importance in a screening and book signing at AFS Cinema on Feb. 19...."
Feb. 17, 2023 Screens Feature by Katie Karp
Japan’s 8mm Revolution
Hachimiri Madness exposes the new radicals of the punk era
"...that totally changed the trajectory of their life. For AFS Cinema’s programmer Jazmyne Moreno, the filmmaker that took her..."
Feb. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf
Moseying Out Into the Multiverse With the Quantum Cowboys
Geoff Marslett probes memory and the many-worlds theory in his new animated mind-bender at AFS Cinema
"...to Quantum Cowboys, which receives its Austin premiere at AFS Cinema, presented by Fantastic Fest. [inset-1-right]..."
Sept. 23, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Before There Was TikTok There Was Negativland
Pioneering culture jammers come to AFS Cinema this Sunday
"...AFS Cinema presents Negativland: It’s Normal for Some Things to..."
