This Week's Recommended Arts Events

On walls, on screens, and in crates, get some culture this week

"...Lone Star State’s two greatest film preservationists, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and the nonprofit American Genre..."

May 3, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Point Austin: The Never-Ending Story

Millions of guns, and countless murders

"...you to spend an hour perusing the Gun Violence Archive, the ongoing, nonprofit, heroic effort to catalog all the..."

Feb. 20, 2024 News Post by Michael King

From Revolution to Entertainment in We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C.

Chronicle writer Joe Gross goes documentarian for the hardcore pioneers

"..."The danger of documentaries is always: archive, archive, talking head," says Joe Gross, journalist, music historian,..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Screens Feature by Tim Stegall

Halloween at the Movies

Your ultimate guide to spooky season screenings in Austin

"...fear? Then the Drafthouse and the American Genre Film Archive have just the terror-packed marathon you need in Dismember..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

New Nonprofit Plans to Bring Back Austin’s Video Rental Culture

We (still) Luv Video

"...video titles, and organizations like the American Genre Film Archive have inched former VHS releases from the fringes of..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2021

In a lost year, retrospectives and reprints with new context were comfort reads

"...Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (Mondo, 416 pp., $35 [paper]) by Alamo Drafthouse/Austin Film..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Vulcan Video Closes

Multiple staff members confirm end of beloved rental store

"...formats – on its shelves has been an essential archive. Every generation of new movie-watching technology has seen films..."

April 7, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terror Tuesday Continues to Be the Alamo’s Bloody Beating Heart

Horror series send shivers up the aisles

"...the Alamo's nonprofit film-preservation/restoration/distribution offshoot the American Genre Film Archive. The latter allows Ziemba a mind-boggling wealth of fright..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Peter O'Toole Archives Land at HRC

Peter O'Toole archives acquired by UT's Harry Ransom Center

"...celebrated holdings with the recently announced acquisition of the archives of screen and stage legend Peter O’Toole. The actor,..."

April 22, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...two major retrospective screenings, with the American Genre Film Archive bringing surreal nightmare Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell back..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Road Trip!

Traveling is stressful – especially for people who like everything screwed down tight

"...Over the holidays, my fiancé and I went to..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Column by The Luv Doc

The Art of Shock and Horror

Nicolas Winding Refn on his new book of classic film exploitation posters

"...Street's grindhouse scene. Refn had already bought McDonough's Milligan archive when the biographer asked if he was interested in..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Paul Stekler named Mentor of the Year, and other film news

"...• The American Genre Film Archive – the nonprofit film-preservation initiative whose founding members include..."

May 5, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Made You Look

Austin Film Society hosts impressionist Jean-Gabriel Périot

"...Chances are, the images that come to mind that..."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Eleven Minutes of Pleasure at the Ritz

American Genre Film Archive holding Reel One party Sunday

"...a special fundraising party for the American Genre Film Archive, and it is for hardcore fans of the weird,..."

Feb. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning

Great short stories, great first lines

"...“You had to get out of them occasionally, those..."

Nov. 27, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

A Watery Grave Narrowly Avoided

35mm prints of lost HK actioners unspool in the Alamo's Asian Invasion series

"...the Alamo Drafthouse and its affiliated American Genre Film Archive. Inside each of these boxes – hundreds of them..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

30 Rock

Thirty recordings for 30 years of music Chronicling

"...the Hopple." Don Walser & the Pure Texas BandThe Archive Series Vol. 1/The Archive Series Vol. 2 (1995)..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Get Your '!W.A.R.' On

AFS Documentary Tour: !Women Art Revolution

"...LHL: I created two things: the archive at Stanford where you can go and literally look..."

April 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Eco-Currents: Talking Trash and Raising the Roof

Anti-litter campaign aims to clean up Austin creeks

"...of their interviews online in the Texas Legacy Project archive. The 62 interviews found in the book in fact..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Eye on an Icon

A new exhibit explores Walter Cronkite's life and legacy

"...materials from the holdings of the News Media History Archive of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. The..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

History's Closet

Making the case for an Austin gay barchive

"...the record," while others flung the doors of personal archives wide open. We began to see the need for..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Out of the Dustbin, Onto the Web

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image launches a new preservation initiative

"...archivist, UT assistant professor, and founder of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image – introduced "Austin, 1911, Capitol..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Hey, Hey, Woody Guthrie, I Made You a Film

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: 'Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home'

"...– or, for that matter, that within his massive archive there are a number of songs celebrating Jewish culture..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet

"...to give us a guided tour of his legendary archive, the labeled and coded-to-the-colors-in-the-spectrum (of course) boxes that line..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Looking Out My Back Door

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of 'Austin City Limits' with 13,000 words. In pictures.

"...reverence for history, Austin City Limits isn't just an archive of American music, it's an archive of truly classic..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Plays Well With Others

How Creative Commons is redefining copyright law and what it means for artistic collaboration across the Internet.

"...won't kill a business. Since 1996, his Web site, www.archive.org, has been giving away educational, commercial, and amateur films..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

Internet Food Sites:

Part One

"...of my more helpful discoveries. SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes..."

May 14, 1999 Food Feature

Postscripts

"...numerous screenplays and photography books, is placing his literary archives there. Materials have already begun arriving at the HRC,..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

UT’s Oldest Research Institution Focused on Oil Gets a New Leader

Lorena Moscardelli says she’s hopeful about sustainable energy

"...combined are believed to be the world’s largest rock archive. At the Austin Core Research Center, right across the..."

April 18, 2025 News Feature by Mattea Gallaway

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