Fun Fun Fun Live Shot: Alt-J

English awkwards yip and yelp

"...quartet standing stiffly clad in black like an Eighties arthouse act...."

Nov. 8, 2014 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Change of Aria Code

Leaving "Lyric" behind, Austin Opera launches a new era

"...as when the Texas Fine Arts Association rechristened itself Arthouse or the merged Arthouse and Austin Museum of Art..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Men, Women & Children

We might be able to connect as human beings if we could just disconnect from from our wired lives, says this movie about our modern world.

"...technophobes and the morality police while simultaneously begging for arthouse bona fides by having America’s creepy uncle, Adam Sandler,..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How Do You Spell Trouble?

The Soska sisters on breaking the rules in the alphabet horror anthology ABCs of Death 2

"...After all, this is the company that greenlit "an arthouse slasher with strong feminist undertones."..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Frank

Arthouse comedy amuses yet disappoints.

"...of that brilliance transferable. A likable but ultimately slight arthouse comedy, Frank measures the toll such close proximity to..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Summer's Tale

Eric Rohmer's 1996 film gets its first Stateside release – and the wait was worth it.

"...unfold before your eyes. Some dismiss his work as arthouse posturing, but his preoccupation with the often instinctive choices..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: Identity Crisis

The Double, Filth, and Moebius melt minds

"...This is pure arthouse horror, as the family dynamic becomes a psychosexual nightmare,..."

Aug. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Two Guys, a Girl, and a Puzzle Piece

UT grad Mark Duplass returns to Austin with director Charlie McDowell and their elusive take on the indie rom-com

"...it." Duplass then pointed out that "the bulk of arthouse audiences are much older and they aren't always watching..."

Aug. 29, 2014 Screens Feature by William Goss

Rich Hill

The turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town are observed through the camera's gentle lens.

"...for gentle intimacy, but the result feels more like arthouse pandering...."

Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

Roger Corman: An AFS tribute to a wild angel

"...The film made its world premiere at SXSW. AFS Arthouse: the Films of Roger Corman..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Kickstart Your Weekend: Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In

Local drive-in revivalists want to improve their screen

"...And, of course, you can still drive right in,..."

July 18, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Jodorowsky's Dune'

Documentary about a film that never was heads this week's releases

"...regard movies like The Holy Mountain as impenetrable '70s arthouse meditations, or just baffling stoner crap. I get that...."

July 8, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Miss Lovely

Indian drama explores Mumbai's seedy, C-grade film industry in the late Eighties.

"...Ahluwalia mixes too many genres – thriller, romance, European arthouse – and distances much of the story, leaving the..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Scenes From a Creative Partnership

The Austin Film Society presents the films of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann in its new series

"...for two years when they reconvened for the 1972 arthouse staple, Cries and Whispers. Taking place within the confines..."

June 27, 2014 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Only Lovers Left Alive

In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.

"...if you’ve been worrying that Jim Jarmusch – the arthouse auteur and one of the reigning royals of independent..."

April 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Flam

News that's not SXSW-related

"...seeking a new operator to reopen the beloved four-screen arthouse theatre. “The Dobie Theater is a vital part of..."

March 17, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

In something of a prequel, this is Jack Ryan's origin story – before Tom Clancy got his hooks in him.

"...rakish Captain Kirk in the Star Trek reboot. Having arthouse doyenne Knightley gig in a girlfriend part is like..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

The unreleased and the oddly evasive titles from 2013

"...Scott Schirmer's $8,000 grind/arthouse shocker stuck with me more than any other film..."

Jan. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Identity Shift

Austin's art community spent 2012 making changes for a changing city

"...The former is rooted in the 2011 merger of Arthouse and the Austin Museum of Art, which felt the..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ready and Abel

Drafthouse Films unleashes Abel Ferrara's 'Ms. 45' on Austin and NYC

"...lover, spending hour after hour soaking up every vintage arthouse and well-worn grindhouse title he could. "Most of the..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...mythology itself. Jordan is clearly trying to make an arthouse vampire movie, but seems hazy on the genre. For..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'The Vincent Price Collection'

The master of horror at the height of his Poe powers

"...another AIP title. Three years before Ken Russell pioneered arthouse horror with The Devils, this quietly revolutionized the period..."

Nov. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What's Your Point of View?

For Halloween, some beastly releases of the haunting month

"...to the original, but also to the larger slasher arthouse genre. Khalfoun even re-creates the original maniac poster (infamously..."

Oct. 20, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Romeo & Juliet

Till death do us part …

"...long misfire. You wouldn’t expect open derision from the arthouse-friendly, older-leaning audience at the Arbor, but I heard more..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

More Art for Laguna Gloria

The Contemporary Austin gets $9 million for sculpture park

"...that, as the museum forged from the merger of Arthouse (originally the TFAA) and the Austin Museum of Art..."

Sept. 12, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Might Be More Art Than You Can Handle, Baby

Esopus. Rubber Repertory. So many links.

"...that venue, back when it was still known as Arthouse...."

Sept. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...an interesting document, Venn diagramming punk and New Wave, arthouse and exploitation, for a gutter-level snapshot of the Bowery..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'The Show!' Goes On

Comedy/film mashup lands at Spiderhouse Ballroom for good

"...be a double dose of Steven DeGennaro, who brought arthouse sensibilities to gross-out comedy during SXSW with his toilet-bound..."

July 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

All Over Creation: What Do You Mean?

Shaking up the lexicon once in a while is necessary if we want to be clear

"...Last week's debut of a new identity for AMOA-Arthouse marked the dawning of a new day in the..."

July 26, 2013 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Drafthouse Films at … Not the Drafthouse

Austin Film Society hosts four favorites from the collection

"...when you get two of the biggest names in arthouse cinema together for one event, it's a veritable juggernaut...."

July 24, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

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