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Indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski enlists Guy Pearce and others for his new movie

"...ways. How it all unfolds is part of the film's allure, so let's keep the plot synopsis vague. Danny..."

May 29, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gift Guide, Cinema-Style

Shopping for film lovers? We have you covered

"...Film lover on your list?..."

Dec. 11, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Blood Simple

"...and Samm-Art Williams. Back in the early Eighties when, film-wise at least, Texas was best known for its urban..."

July 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Clouds

"...Perez, Irene Jacob, Fanny Ardant and John Malkovich. Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni has always been haunted by unseen..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

À Bientôt, Agnès Varda

Looking back on the Belgian-French cinema great, who died today

"...Editor’s note: In honor of the pioneering Belgian-French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who passed away on March 29 at..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...Every year, Austin's film festival highlight some of the best up-and-coming filmmakers. And..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wuxia Clan

AFS's 'Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film' flys high with eight overlooked classics.

"...audiences alike with a jaw-dropping, knee-crumpling series of now-classic films that included Woo's seminal The Killer, Chan's exhilarating Police..."

Aug. 29, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Rustin

Colman Domingo brings a lost mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement to life

"...shortlists for 2024’s Best Actor nominees. Yet while the film itself struggles to marry the weight of a man..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Idris Elba is spellbinding in this biopic that reveres the man but slights the movement.

"...timed. This nation-builder and worldwide face of the anti-apartheid movement died at the beginning of this month at the..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

BPM (Beats Per Minute)

France's AIDS community battles big pharma in the 1990s

"...particularly as a rallying cry of the second-wave feminist movement. Yet the truth of the expression gained extra potency..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Revolution OS

"...documentary on the birth of the open source software movement isn't all the internecine warfare involved in the early..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Italian for Beginners

"...romantic leads were it not for its pedigree. The film is a production of the Danish Dogme movement and..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seberg

Prosaic bio-drama of the radical starlet never shines like she did

"...early European career is not the concern of this film, apart from a quick scene from 1957 when she..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...war experience, our country’s popular imagery of the anti-war movement remains robust due to the peaceniks’ overall absorption into..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suffragette

Carey Mulligan gets her Norma Rae on in this historical drama

"...As the film’s central character Maud Watts, Carey Mulligan delivers an engaging..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Selma

Although it's dramatically uneven, this film is a commendable historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr. that sidesteps the common pitfalls of adulatory biopics.

"...Selma, Ala., voting-rights marches that are depicted in the film, comes this screen effort that not only refreshes our..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Russian Ark

This tour de force of modern cinema is a technical feat filmed in one, uninterrupted, Steadicam take that leads us through a vivified tour of Russian history that wends through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

"...a tour de force of modern cinema. This Russian filmmaker, whose resolute commitment to the exploration of cinema’s basic..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leigh Whannell Gets an Upgrade

Insidious creator gets techno, and talks the Blumhouse model

"...Whannell has become a modern horror master. His new film as a director, Upgrade, is a change of tone,..."

May 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pink Saris and Big Sticks

The Gulabi Gang fights the patriarchy in India

"...in rural North India has swelled into a national movement for women’s rights and social reform. Gulabi Gang (The..."

Oct. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Vijay Ganju

Peggy Chiao Enters A City of Sadness

UT alum returns for rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's greatest

"...This week, Austin Film Society and the Austin Asian-American Film Festival wrap up..."

Sept. 27, 2018 Screens Post by Julian DeBerry

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...Specializing in fine arts and foreign films, the Texas Theatre – now a CVS – sat..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Sound of Noise

Unique to a fault, this Swedish film is a daft police procedural and an absurdist comedy about musical terrorists.

"...better option in town right now than this Swedish film doozy. Unique to a fault, Sound of Noise is..."

March 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Orfeu

"...Carlos Diegues, a participant in the Brazilian Cinema Nôvo movement of the 1960s, surely had that group's social and..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris Was a Woman

"...the first graduating class of the late 19th-century feminist movement. Like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and other male expats..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

I Am Not Your Negro

A stunning doc on the civil rights era

"...30 years after Baldwin’s death, Raoul Peck, the Haitian filmmaker of features and documentaries, has brought Remember This House..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inside Deep Throat

This documentary about the heady days of porn – when "deep throat" became a household expression and everyone viewed the movie Deep Throat as a breath of fresh air – is informative yet lacking historical rigor.

"...Throat is as the flip side of the fiction film Boogie Nights. Same industry, same time period, same general..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...her head, her face lined with roadmaps to the Movement. In any other historical documentary, this sort of onscreen..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The original material was shot by a Swedish TV crew but just now assembled into this documentary that has both vision and perspective.

"...unexpected, and highly impressionistic document of the Black Power movement in America spanning the years 1967 to 1975, The..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

More than an appreciation, this documentary portrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.

"...the "power of song" is too simple, although the film shows how Seeger has used music in every aspect..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slamnation

"...Directed by: Paul Devlin. The slam poetry movement: return to verse's classical roots as an improvisational, often..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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