Stranded

Karen Bernstein's 'Are the Kids Alright?' examines the state of mental health care in Texas

"...because no one has seen her for years. When filmmaker Karen Bernstein first met Jeremy, he was 16 and..."

July 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Page Two

"...road to nowhere, but he can tell you that touring Austin bands rarely receive much in the way of..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Column by Louis Black

You Gotta Have the Mettle

Legendary Texas doc 'Hands on a Hard Body' keeps on truckin'

"...the most memorably outspoken subject of S.R. Bindler's 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body. Perkins' 20-year affiliation with..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Tradition Meets the Marketplace

AFS Documentary Tour presents Weaving Worlds

"...gas-and-Slurpee pit stops to the promotional brochures of state tourism agencies. Filmmaker and University of Texas graduate Bennie Klain,..."

July 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

'World' Cinema

Three-month series AFS@Dobie launches with latest Jia Zhangke film

"...Twenty years ago, when filmmakers Richard Linklater and Lee Daniel put their disheveled heads..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Getting Their Due

The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...In its third year, the Austin Film Society's Texas Film Hall of Fame has become..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Charting America

Filmmaker James Benning typifies the avant-garde tradition and will be on hand to present his film, Los, as part of the Austin Film Society's series, "Expanding Cinema: Fifty Years of Avant-Garde Cinema."

"...Perhaps no filmmaker is as fascinated by the geographical, historical, and social..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Tradition in Transition

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...That great discussion continues here in Texas, Jan. 26, with the opening of the sixth annual..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

From Doug to Dax

Austin Film Festival announces early lineup

"...The Austin Film Festival announced ten titles for its 2010 fest..."

Aug. 24, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Law and Order

"...Wiseman. Trained as a lawyer, Frederick Wiseman aims his documentary camera on social institutions and uses its lens as..."

March 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Instrument

"...by: Jem Cohen. Documentarian Jem Cohen made this collaborative documentary portrait with the band Fugazi. A Washington, D.C., native,..."

Sept. 2, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wiseman at Last

Doc Tour Screens Two Vérité Classics

"...At last, Fred Wiseman comes to Austin. And with two of his vintage docs, High School..."

March 29, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Production Row

The Downtown Film Scene

"...Austin Film Center photograph by Bruce Dye For a city..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

From the Vaults: Blank Checks Out

Les Blank tells us the favorite all of his films

"...Sunday after a career spent following his interests on film and sharing them with the public...."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rush Hour

Todd Phillips' Frat House, screening at the Alamo this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, asks the question: Will you ever dick a brother?

"...to get into the nitty gritty of how his film was banned by HBO. "Let me just say that..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

True-Hearted Vixens and Cormac's Trash

"...Trash" will be presented as part of th e Texas Documentary Tour on Wednesday, May 30, 7:30pm & 9:30pm,..."

May 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Getting Personal

"...Little People, Krawitz's 1984 documentary on dwarves..."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Little Eclectic

Texas Documentary Tour brings Immy Humes to town.

"...different: "A Little Vicious" (1991), a tragicomedy (and Oscar-nominated documentary short) about a pit bull on death row. The..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Better Git Hit in Your Soul

Former Austinite George Ratliff returns to town with his new documentary, Hell House, which explores the Trinity Church's way of converting teens to Christ -- by scaring the pants off them.

"...that, if unanswered, would otherwise hover over the entire film: Why are evangelicals, like the Pentecostal Church, so hell-bent..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Night at the Opera

Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.

"...seat in the audience). That's what happened to the filmmaker himself, who admits he wasn't an opera fan before..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Neighborhood Watch

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Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The News From Here

"...Ross McElwee is a "personal" documentary maker, that self-described obsessed guy with a camera on..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Apollo Creed

"...monitoring equipment. Many of us of a certain age, filmmaker Al Reinert included, were too otherwise occupied with the..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dialogues With Allie Light

"...Allie Light during the making of Dialogues With Madwomen..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

King of the Hillbillies

"...White in Dancing Outlaw There's something oxymoronic about a documentary subject crossing over to Hollywood -- as in being..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Too Much Monkey Business?

"...photograph by TODD V. WOLFSON..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Keeping the Faith

The Texas Documentary Tour presents festival hit Trembling Before G-d, in which Orthodox Jews try to reconcile religion with their homosexuality.

"...atheists and agnostics.) In the early Nineties, gay Jewish filmmaker Sandi Simcha DuBowski was researching and making videos about..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Blank's Slates

"...Les Blank..."

June 18, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Mama's Boys

"...and add in something not usually associated with nonfiction films: entertainment value. You know an Andy and Louie film..."

April 9, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Man Who Wasn't There

"...few days into my quest for an interview with documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, I began to feel like a..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

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