Austin Film Festival Review: The Whale

Darren Aronofsky contemplates fatness and faith

"...their own depression. It’s overtly the theme of the film, an upfront reminder to the audience that the movie..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Five Filmmakers to Learn From at Austin Film Festival 2022

The picks of the panels in this year's writers conference

"...Austin Film Festival isn't just about watching films. It's also..."

Oct. 28, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: The Automat

Celebrities look back at Horn & Hardart's East Coast diners

"...she started making it. During the Q&A after its Austin Film Festival screening, Hurwitz explained that she started filming..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Sarah Jane

Austin Film Festival Review: Holidays at all Costs

French comedy is a hilarious descent into chaos

"...satire, which won Comedy Vanguard award at this year's Austin Film Festival, is successful in a simple conflict that..."

Oct. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Adrienne Hunter

Austin Film Festival Review: Down With the King

Freddie Gibbs finds a new flow as a rapper in the country

"...leaving the originators behind: Down With the King the film is about a musician abdicating his throne, an existential..."

Oct. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Buck Alamo

Sonny Carl Davis shines as a fading Austin burnout

"...of the myth of a certain kind of old Austin. Eli Cody (played by Austin acting mainstay Sonny Carl..."

Oct. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Society Launches AFS@Home

New platform will make watching virtual cinema easier

"...a new program being launched with Salt Lake City Film Society and other arthouse cinemas around the U.S under..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Preview

How to attend this year's virtual festival

"...due to the coronavirus, AFF has gone online. The film festival will run Oct. 22-29, with 22 world, North..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature

Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, and More Austin Film News

"...Headed to Utah? Look out for some Austin filmmakers and ATX-linked films at Sundance and Slamdance, the..."

Jan. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film News

Locals at SXSW, plus RSVP for a Maybe Shower

"...South By Austin..."

March 9, 2018 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Film Society Unveils Its New Home for Cinema

Two-screen theatre will showcase the best of new and classic arthouse cinema

"...It's final touches time at the new Austin Film Society Cinema: fine-tuning the projectors, training staff on..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: The Big Spoon

Love lost and found in this bittersweet local feature

"...Billed as an unromantic comedy, this homegrown Austin film explores what it means to be in the..."

Oct. 18, 2016 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Austin Film Festival Review: Shorts Program 10 – Everything’s Shorter in Texas

Series highlights strong range of local filmmakers

"...profound respect for the talent on display in the films, most seriously for the dramatic works that bookended the..."

Oct. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

Austin Film Festival Review: An Acquired Taste

Locavore youth documentary debut aims to please

"...Ostensibly a family film about teenagers learning to hunt in the wilds of..."

Oct. 16, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

2016 Austin Film Festival Spotlights

AFF has some big names, but never loses sight of its hometown

"...bit overwhelming hopping from aGLIFF and Fantastic Fest to Austin City Limits and beyond. And now we have arrived..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Austin Film Festival: The Teller and the Truth

Texas filmmaker attempts to cherchez la femme

"...In the film, various characters/Smithville residents offer their recollections of Wetherbee and..."

Nov. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Caitlin Moore

Austin Film Festival: Of Dogs and Men

Police brutality vs. man's best friend

"...a trivial concern compared to the #blacklivesmatter protest, the film's chilling context is that an estimated 10,000 family pets..."

Nov. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: The Lion’s Path

He is Nietzschean, hear him roar

"...depicted here runs to more standard conventions, but the film nonetheless holds your eye and makes you think long..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival: Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West

Cats and dogs living together

"...the fact that this unique little gem of a film has been slotted into the dreaded “Family Film” category...."

Oct. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

In the Blue Corner: Austin Film Festival

The festival dedicated to every part of storytelling on screen is back for its 20th anniversary

"...to celebrate in any given year of the annual Austin Film Festival, but seeing as this year marks the..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Austin Film Festival: A 'Precious' Experience

Thoughts on Precious, Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire

"...the story again, this time in Lee Daniel’s powerful film which screened Friday night at the Austin Film Festival...."

Oct. 29, 2009 Screens Post by Belinda Acosta

Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

Fish Kill Flea

"...years later, visiting the flea market with fellow, soon-to-be-first-time filmmakers Aaron Hillis and Jennifer Loeber, Cassidy learned that the..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Austin Film Society's Sublime Lines

Essential Cinema series: Japanese Animé

"...it was the first of five offerings in the Austin Film Society's latest Essential Cinema series, Sublime Lines: Japanese..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Austin Film Critics Association Calls Killers of the Flower Moon Top Film of 2023

But Oppenheimer dominates in multiple categories

"...The Austin Film Critics Association has announced its awards for best..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

So You Think You Know Austin Film History?

Play our multiple choice trivia game

"...Milla Jovovich 2) Three Oscar-nominated directors have lived in Austin, but who has the most nominations?..."

Dec. 22, 2023 Features Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Texas Tales at Austin Film Festival

Stories inspired by and made in the Lone Star State

"...and her colleague, director Andrew Shea (Portrait of Wally), filmed it in Austin.World Premiere. Thu., Oct. 26, 7:30pm, State..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Sam & Kate

Hoffman and Spacek in a bittersweet tale of love and family

"...In a less demanding film, of the kind that might have been greenlit for..."

Oct. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Review: Nanny

Eerie migrant drama is an intriguing addition to Black horror

"...This genre-bending film depicts the struggles of Senegalese immigrant Aisha (Anna Diop)..."

Oct. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

The Austin Film Festival Brings the Terror of Motherhood in Nanny

New Voice Award winner Nikyatu Jusu looks at horror with a Black woman's gaze

"...soul of director and writer Nikyatu Jusu's first feature film, Nanny. It's a multifaceted exploration of motherhood, from the..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Austin Film Society Presses Play on the Career of TV Superproducer Aaron Spelling

The History of Television series spotlights the man who built The House That Would Not Die

"...reminding television viewers of a less convenient, Netflix-free past. Austin Film Society's bimonthly screening series History of Television is..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Sage Dunlap

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