Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...and what's soon to come, so thematically the first Austin Film Society Essential Cinema series of the new year..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Ciné-Varda

AFS Essential Cinema: Agnes on Agnès

"..."In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Funny Ha-Ha in a Half-Dozen Languages

AFS Essential Cinema presents Making the World Laugh: Global Comedy

"...Enter the Austin Film Society and its Essential Cinema series, which –..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...his ex-wife. He spends the first half of the film as something of an angry old man – but..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

An Eclectic Send-Off to Summer

Contemporary French film the focus of new Essential Cinema series

"...in Mademoiselle Chambon, the 2009 melodrama that opens the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema overview of recent French cinema:..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Many Faces of Janus

AFS Essential Cinema series presents a wild lineup

"...such a beauteously bonkers lineup. Call these wildly diverse films objets d'art – and, really, even the most virulent..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Extreme Temperature Swings

AFS Essential Cinema kicks off Asia: Hot and Cool series

"...adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The film reflects the contrast and color of the Austin Film..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Actually Living With War

The latest AFS Essential Cinema series focuses on the films of the Middle East and North Africa

"...was unable to get a sense of how the filmmakers pulled off this scene, though my curiosity was fervent...."

Feb. 16, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Lady Be Good

Austin Film Society presents pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck

"...The great Barbara Stanwyck starred in seven different films with the word "lady" in the title, but in..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Spoils of War

Blood and sorrow in the films of Southeast Europe

"...way to violence, a recurring theme in the latest Austin Film Society Essential Cinema series. Guest-curated by Vera Mijojlic,..."

April 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Why He Fought

New AFS series considers Frank Capra's pre-World War II films

"...then one of the most respected and financially rewarded film directors of the day – abandoned Hollywood to enlist..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Senegal's Père du Cinéma

AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène

"...The man commonly regarded as the "father of African cinema" – Ousmane Sembène – died just a few years..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Surviving the Blacklist: Joseph Losey in Europe

Sept. 5-Oct. 10

"...the communist label stuck back in 1951, and the film industry gave the charge weight when it put Losey's..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

This Time It’s Personal

Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS

"...cash left over for discretionary spending. That’s where the Austin Film Society’s new initiative – the Ed Lowry Student..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFS Selects "Le Havre"

AFS and the Violet Crown initiate AFS Selects series with Le Havre

"...is the name of a new partnership between the Austin Film Society and the Violet Crown Cinema...."

Nov. 4, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pushing the Borderline

AFS Essential Cinema highlights filmmakers far from home

"...In the Austin Film Society's latest series in cross-cultural studies, Auteurs Sans..."

June 3, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Getting Warmer

Essential Cinema tours contemporary Latin America

"...The nine films that make up CineSur: Films of Latin America, the..."

June 1, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Great Escapes

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 3: Films of the Middle East & North Africa

"...Every year the Austin Film Society, as part of its ongoing Essential Cinema..."

Feb. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

America's Mortal Goddess

AFS Essential Cinema enchants with Marilyn Monroe

"...is it about her that still beguiles? The nine films and lone documentary of the Austin Film Society's aptly..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4

"...hard to believe it's been three years since the Austin Film Society premiered its first Middle Eastern film program,..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Obsessive

AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma

"...It's been 40 years since cinematic enfant terrible, postmodern jokester, and aspiring "American Godard" Brian..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...referencing come from watching movies from around the world, films made by inhabitants of other cultures, films drenched in..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Revisiting Rivette

Essential Cinema revives the films of Jacques Rivette

"...When you think of the filmmakers who came out of the French New Wave, you..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Redacted, Then Redressed

AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films

"...of the more interesting stories in the history of cinema are the ones that authorities once hoped to scrub..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Something Wild

AFS Essential Cinema: Hong Kong New Wave Cinema

"...The term "world cinema," a catchall for anything outside our own borders, seems..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Less Wild Side to Argentina

AFS Essential Cinema: More Than Buenos Aires: Film Renaissance in Argentina

"...Midway through Argentine director Carlos Sorin's 2004 film Bombón: El Perro, a scene takes place the likes..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Separate Lives

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham / Ibrahim 6

"...should be lost on few who've been following that film. All nuclear brinkmanship aside, it's a contemporary portrait of..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Something Wilder

AFS Essential Cinema: Censors, Drop Your Scissors! Billy Wilder's Later Comedies

"...Billy Wilder's late-period movies, Avanti! and Fedora. The former Austin Community College film instructor, author, and occasional Austin Chronicle..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFS's Other Minds, Other Worlds

Global Sci-Fi Cinema

"...the muck of Michael Haneke's extended bourgeois nightmare, the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema Series is wisely shaking the..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Pluck of the Irish

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

"...of the 20th century, the story of Ireland on film was left largely to foreign filmmakers. Think The Quiet..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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