Kickstart Your Weekend: 'The Show Must Go On'

Going behind the scenes of One-Act Play

"...– except maybe high school drama drama. And one documentary, The Show Must Go On, seeks to capture it..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

You Can Sing, but You Can't Dance

AFS Documentary Tour presents Afghan Star

"...for their hometown favorites in the nationwide Afghan Star competition. Folks in dusty villages climbing onto their roofs to..."

June 26, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Akeelah and the Bee

This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if sometimes unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.

"...and J.R. Villarreal. If you’ve seen the outstanding 2002 documentary Spellbound, you will perhaps recall Ashley White, the young..."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grind

"...C’est la guerre. After last year’s brilliant, sexy, perfect documentary on the birth of skateboarding culture – Stacy Peralta’s..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Finding Their Tuva

The Texas Documentary Tour screens 'Genghis Blues,' the Belic Brothers' next step in living a 'kickass, adventurous life and meeting cool people.'

"...He gets invited to Tuva for the next throatsinging competition. We follow him on this journey, our heartstrings, like..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners

Austin-linked films Blinders, Horton Foote win

"...Tragic diving documentary Dave Not Coming Back, and family drama Paper Tiger..."

Nov. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Imperfect Game

The Texas Documentary Tour: 'Small Ball' follows a Little League team – and their parents – to the World Series

"...has been a charmed (and charming) run on the documentary circuit. They call what they do "anthropology," and I..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...A documentary film crew on the Amazon River strays into dangerous..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jurassic Punk: Inside the Tempestuous Career of FX Revolutionary Steve Williams in Spaz

New documentary spotlights the maverick who added CGI to cinema magic

"...Add another descriptor. Self-destructive. In Spaz, Leberecht's intimate documentary about his friend and colleague that debuts at South..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sundance Review: Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Questlove's joyous celebration of the Harlem Cultural Festival

"...Questlove deconstructs the sterility of a typical talking heads documentary. The inclusion of interviews isn’t to incorporate some sense..."

Feb. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

Sundance Review: Cusp

Texas documentary raises and struggles with questions of consent

"...filmmakers Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt to make a documentary about their lives. Hill and Bethencourt follow the trio..."

Feb. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

Inside the Amazing World of Taxidermy With Stuffed

Director Erin Derham finds beauty and lessons in animal art

"...researching what would become her lyrical, poignant, and beautiful documentary Stuffed, she admits, she was “very ignorant about the..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Kickstart Your Weekend With Air Sex

Now’s your chance to fund a film about people having sex with themselves

"...Championships have ascended to lofty heights of Air Fill-in-the-Blank competition. The simulated lovefest serves 30-plus cities, has appeared at..."

June 21, 2013 Screens Post by Chase Hoffberger

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...For Once in My LifeDocumentary Feature, Documentary Competition D: Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann;..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Life and Death in Miniature in Marwencol

Director Jeff Malmberg on one trauma survivor's path to set his world right by building it anew

"...Jeff Malmberg's SXSW Jury Award-winning documentary feature Marwencol focuses on Mark Hogancamp, who was attacked..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

SXSW Film

Reviews and Interviews

"...Sons of a GunDocumentary Feature, Documentary Competition D: Rivkah Beth Medow, Greg O'Toole..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Kristine Tofte

Film News

Word from the Independent Spirit Awards and Sundance fronts; plus, 'No Pain, No Gain,' Bobby Cannavale, and 'Light From the East'

"...of Dallas, whose TV Junkie was selected for the documentary competition. The film has been compared to Tarnation for..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Shot in the Dark

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Paul Devlin's 'Power Trip'

"...decentralized management style and the laudable mission of bringing competition to the power sector in remote parts of the..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Dance Fever

Sundance 2000: The year of "dot-comming," short films, female athletes, and the feverish race for the next big thing.

"...of the surname Charles as the narrator of the documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye) strolling around the Sundance..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Los Angeles: Totally Crushing on Austin

A couple of homegrown films hit the L.A. Film Festival

"...just-released lineup features two homegrown films (happily, not in competition with each other): PJ Raval's Trinidad (codirected with Jay..."

May 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Review: Angel Applicant

Award-winning documentary finds two artists linked by one disease

"...Meyer, these questions comprise the frame around his autobiographical documentary Angel Applicant, which this week took the SXSW grand..."

March 17, 2023 SXSW Post by Josh Kupecki

Waiting for the Fall as Lily Topples the World

Director Jeremy Workman holds his breath with a domino artist

"...says, referring to the setting of his new SXSW-selected documentary, Lily Topples the World...."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Shane Pfender

SXSW Short and Sweet: “Sophie and the Baron”

Alexandria Jackson on her story of collaboration and friendship

"...it’s “Sophie and the Baron”, filmmaker Alexandria Jackson’s affecting documentary focused on the collaboration of rising artist Sophie Kipner..."

March 16, 2021 SXSW Post by Trace Sauveur

Page Two: Telling Stories, Watching Movies

The real and the known, the unreal and then some

"...The Hollywood Reporter: "Oscars: 15 Titles Advance in Documentary Feature Category" – "The Academy has unveiled the 15..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Film Flam

Austinites get Emmy nominations and David Gordon Green's new project

"...Another project with local ties, Margaret Brown's documentary The Great Invisible, was nominated in the Exceptional Merit..."

July 20, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Film Review: The Sandwich Nazi

Salam Kahil is totally inappropriate

"...But beyond the sexual pageantry and theatrics, Lewis Bennett’s documentary offers a complicated portrait of a fairly antipathetic subject...."

March 16, 2015 SXSW Post by Andy Campbell

Twinsters

What if you found your long-lost twin on the other side of the planet?

"...video blogs, and Skype chats woven seamlessly into the documentary format. "We're on social media all day," says Futerman...."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

T-Rex

What if you became the first American woman to win Olympic gold for boxing?

"...all of this while being followed around by a documentary film crew...."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Film Review: 'Beginning With the End'

Dave Marshall lets his subjects rule this straightforward doc

"...where hospice is the name of a class. The documentary Beginning With the End follows a group of students..."

March 12, 2014 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film Review: 'The Great Invisible'

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has exacted a human toll

"...Having won a prestigious Peabody Award for her previous documentary, The Order of Myths, Brown was in a good..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

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