'Far Marfa' Captures the Romance of West Texas Outpost

Stateside Independent hosts film's Austin premiere tonight

"...It is almost too obvious to state that Marfa is both a place of being and an act..."

Feb. 25, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December

When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?

"...Marfa is a legend silk-screened on a trucker cap. I..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Arts Feature by Dan Keane

Marfa Bites

Take a break from Austin's humidity in Marfa's cool oases

"...A visit to Marfa affords many pleasures: spectacular high-desert scenery, vast starry skies,..."

July 2, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

Visitor From Holland Had a Great Time in Marfa

"...for a review on the opening night of the Marfa Film Festival, just to see if there were any..."

May 22, 2008 Postmarks

Film Flam

Stateside Independent launches, Al Gore at SXSW Interactive, and more

"...We’ve vented before about how aggravatingly far down the food chain Austin is as a theatrical..."

Feb. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

You Can Leave Your Hat On

Watching movies in Marfa

"...In dreamy, big-sky West Texas, festivalgoers from as far as Holland gathered to watch the nearly 50 films..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Jardine Libaire

CineMarfa Announces 2015 Lineup

Sci-fi in an out-of-this-world setting

"...It’s a long trip from Austin to Marfa, but the lineup of CineMarfa 2015 ventures even farther:..."

March 25, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

“Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: Giant” at the Blanton Museum of Art

The film is good at showing the fate of the film set of Giant, but it leaves open the question of what’s happened to Marfa

"...juxtaposed with scenes of a decrepit movie set outside Marfa, Texas. Young female secretaries sit at their desks typing..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

Location, Location, Location

Previewing the Marfa Film Festival

"...to the next movie (or next line). But the Marfa Film Festival is a different beast altogether. Now in..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Nocturnal Animals

A dark meditation on regret and revenge

"...father is also played by Gyllenhaal – driving to Marfa for a vacation are attacked by a trio of..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Players' Guide

Space cowboys in Marfa, 'Angry Henry,' and how you can help Greenlight local developers

"...best games will be put on display at the Marfa Film Festival in early July. More jam info will..."

May 23, 2014 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

A Taste of CineMarfa 2013

Archival programs and current works blend in West Texas fest

"...Are there now far too many film festivals? It's a legitimate question...."

May 10, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

2011 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Recipients Announced

2011 TFPF winners announced

"...FAR MARFA Cory Van Dyke 90 min narrative $3,000 for..."

Aug. 29, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Austin, if you can look past the poor family farmer getting kicked off his land in Hutto after making..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Column

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...a request from the Border Patrol's sector headquarters in Marfa. Spanning 2,200 square miles of West Texas desert, Marfa..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

Spring has sprung, and here's 100 ways to celebrate

"...is something about the high desert air in the Far West Texas town of Marfa that seems to separate..."

April 1, 2019 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

"...The Marfa Lights have been confounding residents and visitors as to..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Donald Judd

Two new books on the man and artist who remade Marfa

"...friends at Chinati, the art compound Judd founded in Marfa, Texas. It was a flippant statement – one part..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and an end to the 2,000-student behemoths we have far too many of throughout Texas and the USA...."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

It's a great time to get out and explore

"...Star bright. What most residents and visitors to Far West Texas already knew is now official – the..."

May 5, 2022 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...The Marfa Tapes (Sony Music Nashville)..."

May 14, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Ballad of Townes & Blaze

The twisted but not-so-tall tale of Van Zandt and Foley, Lonesome Dove meets Barfly

"...breath. Blaze liked to tell people he was from Marfa. He liked the ring of it, I think, and..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Features Feature by Sybil Rosen

Have Car, Will Travel for Film

CineMarfa

"...The Cine Lights of Marfa..."

April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...to be seen more widely than it has so far." The lowered expectations for the film are shared by..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Hard Habit to Break

Moonlight Towers' DIY road rage: This is you, Austin

"...at the end of the tour's first show in Marfa, and a guy in El Paso repairs it for..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Plus dispatches from SandFest, farewell to Gary Oliver, and more

"...the biggest and most attended sand sculpture festival so far despite the windy and chilly weather. As always it..."

May 3, 2024 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two: The Good Songs We Need to Sing Together and Loud

Celebrating love and resistance at Terry and Jo Harvey Allen's 55th wedding anniversary

"...Last week in Marfa the thickening fog was ripped apart, the sprawling dark..."

July 14, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Standing Rock’s Civil Disobedience Reaches West Texas

“It’s the Rio Grande. It’s sacred to many people."

"...Lori Glover said before a November anti-pipeline march outside Marfa. "This is the last place in Texas that is..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Greg Harman

Film News

The Top 10 things that had people talking in Austin film and TV this year

"...Chris Eska, whose August Evening follows an aging, undocumented farmworker and his widowed daughter-in-law as their lives are turned..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...agenda for affecting government policy and national concerns. So far, so good. Clearly, these internecine religious battles have relevant..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

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