Perfect Days

A toilet cleaner in Tokyo quietly goes about his days in this stirring Oscar nominated picture

"...who took the Best Actor prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. His Hirayama – kind, pragmatic, principled –..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How to Have Sex

Un Certain Regard winner explores first sex and consent from the perspective of a British teenager on a holiday in Crete

"...picked up the 2023 Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes (it wrapped up its festival run at Sundance last..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Anatomy of a Fall

French courtroom drama shows the truth of people is always complex

"...test of a courtroom drama, winner of the 2023 Cannes Palme d'Or, and this year’s French export (after 2022’s..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

How Austin Made DC’s Blue Beetle Fly

Director and Fantastic Fest regular Ángel Manuel Soto reveals his own secret origin

"...changed my life." In 2015, he was attending the Cannes Film Festival, desperately trying to raise some interest in..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Five Films at Cine Las Americas

The best movies from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora and Indigenous peoples at the annual film festival

"...raw depiction of a political awakening premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight and has been a star of the..."

June 2, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Family That Films Together: Robert, Racer, and Rebel Rodriguez on Hypnotic

The moviemaking dynasty proves the value of working from home

"...Robert: Then we went to Cannes with Red II in the Directors’ Fortnight, and I’m..."

May 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Joyland

Tragedy in Lahore as wants and needs are sacrificed for propriety

"...The Cannes 2022 Jury Prize- and Queer Palm-winning Joyland has been..."

May 5, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Indie Meme Review: Leila's Brothers

Banned Iranian family drama reveals the damage of poverty

"...struggles that each of the characters of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival awardee stems from poverty. The allocation of..."

April 20, 2023 Screens Post by Katie Karp

Return to Seoul

Cannes-lauded drama about identity and homeland

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Featured Session: Julia Ducournau

"I obviously don't care for shock value at all."

"...pieces was rewarded with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her latest Titane, only the second..."

March 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Rod Machen

The Power of Platonic Intimacy in Close

Director Lukas Dhont explores tender moments of boyhood in his new drama

"...when Julia Ducournau took her debut feature, Raw, to Cannes in 2016 "she thought she was going to have..."

Feb. 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Broker

Kore-eda exports his themes of family to Korea

"...(Parasite, Memories of Murder), who won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance in the film. Here he plays..."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Devotion

Airborne biopic finds warm friendship across the military's racial divide

"...others. A detour in which the pilots dock at Cannes and go to a party with Elizabeth Taylor seems..."

Nov. 25, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Holy Spider

True crime drama is an indictment of theocracy and misogyny

"...Rahimi (Ebrahimi, who received the Best Actress award at Cannes for this role), the film becomes a very effective..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Marquee Movies at Austin Film Festival 2022

Headliners and Oscar contenders at this year's AFF

"...returning Brendan Fraser received a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes...."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund's newest Cannes' award-winning social satire falls flat

"...social satire. This year’s winner of the Palme d’Or, Cannes’ top prize, Triangle of Sadness is Östlund’s second film..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dolly de Leon Sails into the Triangle of Sadness

The Filipina actress discusses her breakout role in Ruben Östlund's Cannes award winner

"...modern marriages and fragile masculinity; in his follow-up, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Square, he savaged contemporary art..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Triangle of Sadness Star Dolly De Leon Sails into Fantastic Fest

Award-season hopeful is putting Filipino cinema on the map

"...visitor: Dolly De Leon, the breakout star of the Cannes Palme D’Or winning Triangle of Sadness. "I'm so excited,"..."

Sept. 30, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Lands The Whale

Brendan Fraser's Venice smash to open fest, Oct. 27-Nov. 3

"...announced that it will be screening Armageddon Time, the Cannes favorite by filmmaker James Gray (The Lost City of..."

Sept. 8, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Official Competition

Cruz and Banderas reunite in this scathing comedy about ego and filmmaking

"...men, and ends with their film’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival – but it also signals its preoccupations:..."

July 1, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ethan Hawke Teams Up With Local Writer for The Black Phone

The team behind Sinister creates the summer's scariest film

"...ever made that showed at a side theatre in Cannes in 1936, whereas I'm the guy who stays up..."

June 24, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The 48 Hour Film Project Celebrates 20 Years in Austin

The fastest movies in Texas

"...winners are selected to showcase their work at the Cannes Film Festival. Though Austin's 48 Hour Film Project has..."

May 27, 2022 Screens Feature by Sage Dunlap

Filmmaker and Film-Educator Paul Stekler Says Goodbye to UT

As he delivers his final class, the former head of UT-Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film gives a commencement speech looking back on a career without a plan

"...enhancing the major. Student films went to Sundance and Cannes and SXSW and young screenwriters begun to fill writers'..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Five Films Not to Miss at Indie Meme 2022

The best of South Asian cinema, right here in Austin

"...the 2021 O'eil D'or Award for Best Documentary at Cannes 2021, Kapadia’s debut feature interweaves archive footage of the..."

April 14, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Compartment No. 6

Strangers on a train form a tense bond in this Finnish drama

"...Strangers on a train, once again. But in this Cannes Grand Prix co-winner from Finland, set in post-Soviet Union..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Worst Person in the World

Worst person? No. Best performance of the year? Maybe.

"...Julie (Reinsve, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes last year for her portrayal of this character) is..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eternals

Marvel’s immortal heroes overstay their welcome

"...Super, schoolroom drama Half Nelson, racial meditation Fruitvale Station, Cannes-favored romance Somersault, and lo-fi adoption drama Short Term 12..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Velvet Underground

The originators of alt music get the artistic biography they deserve

"...Curious, the tepid-to-bad reviews filtering from Cannes this past summer over The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes’..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Titane

Cannes-winning chaotic drama is a new reflection on body horror

Oct. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Six Mindblowers From Fantastic Fest’s FF@Home

Our picks from the streaming side of the genre celebration

"...in-person celebration of global genre festival, which opened with Cannes Palme d'Or award-winner Titane, and snuck in secret screenings..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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