Punk Legend John Doe Gets Dark for a Weekend of Film Noir

AFS Cinema screens the series including his remake of D.O.A.

"...This legendary exchange opens up 1950 film noir classic D.O.A., in which Edmond O'Brien plays a..."

July 7, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Iron Age's Seminal Album Reverberates Through Texas' Metal Scene

The Sleeping Eye turns 10 with a reissue, its creators and other Texas metal icons consider its influence

"...An hour southwest of Austin sits another world. Rolling hills and winding roads hide..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Austin Visual Arts: 'Art in America' surveys the scene

For a national magazine to do a story on Austin that's just about the visual arts scene is pretty much unheard of

"...By now, Austin has been the subject of so many stories in..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Reviews

"...passing. In the underbelly of NYC's über-butch black dyke scene, passing means survival. "Scene" is inaccurate, really, because here,..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

SXSW Film Review: Being Mary Tyler Moore

New documentary reminds us there was more than just The Flip

"...pioneer as a woman production executive, even if the film glosses over the monumental impact of Mary Tyler Moore..."

March 14, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...Superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold continues his integration into Austin's regional constellation with a live in-store spin. Admission, $30,..."

June 18, 2021 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...lot of money in 1990. When the city of Austin required liability insurance to host a gay event in..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...teased some of the highlights of the just-announced SXSW Film 2011 lineup – and they're keeping mum still on..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...number of ways, but it plays to the international film community elite. Telluride is film-centric, but it isn't a..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Austin Underground Veterans Immortalize the Nineties in New Oral History

A Curious Mix of People's Greg Beets and Richard Whymark plot October launch events

"...music venues. A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin, recently released by UT Press, immortalizes..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...students at Richmond College in England. Huckabee was a film enthusiast, and was taking classes for high school credit...."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Contrast Film Festival Pushes Boundaries, Defies Gender

New film festival presents America: The Remix

"...Contrast Film Festival is not your typical film fest. Intermixing fringe..."

July 20, 2018 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...to high school football to our communal spirit of filmmaking in the face of the bigwigs in New York..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

On the Scene With Cine Las Americas

The festival director talks about finding international emerging voices and programming in the age of piracy

"...As the Cine Las Americas Film Festival enters its 16th year, it's grown into a..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Film News

We're No. 1! We're No. 1!

"...No. 1 Austin does the Sundance..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film Review: Immaculate

Nun horror delivers decent scares, but gets in its own way

"...Immaculate, Neon’s new horror film starring Sydney Sweeney, understands this on a basic level...."

March 13, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

SXSW Film Review: I Used To Be Funny

Healing drama uses its laughs as therapy

"...That scattered struggle is difficult to resonate on film without drowning in sorrow, but the tonal balance of..."

March 14, 2023 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

A Love Letter to the ATX Comes to the Austin Revolution Film Festival

David Reyes is totally Texas AF

"...Where does a filmmaker find the title for a movie? For David Reyes,..."

Feb. 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Sage Dunlap

Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds

Delivering a Scare Package

"...few things Aaron B. Koontz hates more than horror films that mock horror films. So while his new anthology..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Jewish Repertory Theater's W.

This solo version of Woyzeck is a fresh, compelling take on Buchner's play, powerfully performed by Joey Hood

"...the projected image and accompanying sound of an old film projector – that either this is the end of..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

The Austin Jewish Film Festival Reaches Out

From homophobia to 'Hava Nagila,' these 21 features cross boundaries and borders

"...The 11th annual Austin Jewish Film Festival, which kicks off Saturday, April 13,..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Andy Campbell

The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right

Zombie auteur George Romero delivers another state of the union

"...purpose we'll never know – only adds to the film's pleasurably disconcerting unreliability. This one's strange and despairing and..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Film News

On the set of 'Grind House,' sort of; plus, updates on 'There Will Be Blood,' 'Dallas,' and more

"...Robert Rodriguez's zombified "Planet Terror," half of a joint film project with Quentin Tarantino with the umbrella title Grind..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

From Austin to Neptune

Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas on the rise of his career-making cult favorite

"...and recently had the opportunity to interview the former Austinite by phone from his home in Los Angeles, the..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'

The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it

"...is Archer City, the town that snubbed Peter Bogdanovich's film version of McMurtry's novel, forcing many scenes to be..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film Reviews

A wholly originally, wholly beautiful rumination on memory and rootlessness

"...is never gimmicky. It's a stunning directorial debut from Austin-based UT film professor Athina Rachel Tsangari, who doesn't shy..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: The In Between

Intimate doc captures life, loss on the U.S.-Mexico border

"...moment, but they’re also the stuff of life itself. Filmmaker Robie Flores takes these small, precious moments and creates..."

March 10, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

SXSW Film Review: The Hobby

Setting the table for a new era of board gamers

"...Do you believe in life after Monopoly? The filmmakers behind The Hobby certainly do...."

March 8, 2024 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...we get these refreshing bevs? If you missed the Austin Beer Guide’s annual, exceptionally curated Lager Jam as we..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

SXSW Film Review: The Arc of Oblivion

Documentary explores the beautiful effort of human record-keeping

"...narration and twee animation for the South By Southwest Film and Television 2023 selection, the King Corn director creates..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

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