Austin Films For the First Wave of Austin Film Festival

Fugitive Dreams, Horton Foote doc in first wave

"...The team behind Austin Film Festival promised that they'd stick to their mission of..."

Aug. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From Austin To Canada: The Virtual Film Fest Experience

Local filmmakers on having world premieres at Fantasia

"...If this was a normal year, then Austin filmmakers Richard Jones and Jason Neulander would probably be on..."

Aug. 31, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmakers Make International Festival Waves

Watch out Chicago (and Montreal, and Edinburgh, and London)

"...The autumn film festival season isn't quite with us yet. But as..."

July 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Interview: A Vision Quest With Richard Bates Jr. in King Knight

Coven comedy where the witches are just like us. Dorks.

"...With films like the grisly Excision and violent social satire Tone-Deaf,..."

Aug. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Clapboard Jungle

Live shots from the indie filmmaking trenches

"...The longer you spend in film journalism, the more filmmakers you get to know, and..."

Aug. 26, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Glasshouse

South African period horror hides transgression under gentility

"...Any film that deals with a pandemic right now will be..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...The 2022 film festival is just around the corner (even if events..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Lapsis

The gig economy savaged in this SF warning about modern capital

"...it got its delayed world premiere at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and a North American debut this..."

Sept. 3, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Casting news, festival coups, and more

"...joins Midnight Special, Tim League throws down, and more festival news than you know what to do with...."

Aug. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Fantasia Review: Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

An overdue tribute to one of the greats of animation

"...the two came down to one reality. Miyazaki made films that Disney would distribute in the west. Kon made..."

Aug. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Daniel Erickson Scores Mad Love at Fantasia Fest

Austin filmmaker's mannequin noir wows Montreal

"...honest: more than a little creeped out) when Austin filmmaker Daniel Erickson recently reappeared on the scene after a..."

July 19, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantasia Review: Minor Premise

Who are we, anyway? It depends when you ask ...

"...Unlike 2019 Fantasia personality mindbender Dead Dicks, the characters' aren't just trying..."

Sept. 6, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Last Thing Mary Saw

A nightmare in nineteenth century New York

"...Unlike most historical queer drama, especially those that fuse..."

Aug. 17, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: What Josiah Saw

Southern Gothic horror-noir binds and dooms a shattered family

"...Cosmic judgement lurks, scarcely visible, at the edges of..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Lost Boys

Junkie odyssey takes a long, dark trip from Finland to Cambodia

"...The hardest question for any documentary filmmaker is simple: when do you stop? When does the..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Bleed With Me

Blood binds friendships in this remote chiller

"...There have been a whole series of these sepia-and-shadows..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Block Island Sound

Aquatic horror reaches - and grabs - the stars

"...The first feature as directors for siblings and American..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Fight Machine

A face-smashing, heartbreaking collision in slow motion

"...In the blue corner is Paul Harris (Greg Hovanessian,..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Dark and the Wicked

Gone to Texas, gone to Hell in this occult horror

"...That's the merciless question at the core of The..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Cult Hero

Silly Canadian comedy-horror gets the biggest laughs from its smarts

"...he is, Kallie becomes the real center of the film, and Collins plays her suitably big but with a..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...his work available when no one else would), Rollin's films stood somewhere between the new wave of North American..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Martyrs Lane

A childhood haunting that's far from angelic

"...Martyrs Lane screens as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival running Aug. 5-25. Info and virtual..."

Aug. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Giving Birth to a Butterfly

Quirky surrealist road trip takes the station wagon to a sense of self

"...Birth to a Butterfly screens as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival running Aug. 5-25. Info and virtual..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Monster Seafood Wars

C'mon, who hasn't wondered what Godzilla tastes like?

"...Byzantine conspiracies are as much a part of kaiju films as evil geniuses cackling when they reveal their sinister..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: For the Sake of Vicious

Merciless revenger's tragedy never blanches from violence

"...The Canadian director broke out with his third film, In the House of Flies, a radical and grueling..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...Every film festival showcases a slate of titles that deserve an..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Breach

Cosmic horror with a visceral body horror bent

"...The Breach screened as part of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival...."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Detention

Taiwanese video game adaptation is a tale of political redemption

"...Detention is screening as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 20-Sept. 2,..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: The Columnist

Doomscrolling turns deadly in this Twitter troll satire

"...The Columnist is screening as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Aug. 20-Sept. 2,..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lucky Seven for Sci-Fi Film Fest Other Worlds

Interstellar picks for the festival's seventh year

"...Lapsis Originally selected for SXSW, Noah Hutton's savage takedown..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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