The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...It's tough to be an experimental filmmaker these days. Not only do you have to find..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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

Exposing The Zodiac Killer

The first film to be restored by the American Genre Film Archive

"...go together like highways and spree killers. But no film has a more bizarre relationship with real-life murder than..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Peace Officer

SXSW documentary on police violence needs finishing funds

"...Officer. A collaboration between two associate professors in documentary film, Scott Christopherson at St. Edward's and Brad Barber at..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

NY (Heart) TFF

A report from the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival

"...In its fourth year, New York's Tribeca Film Festival, which concluded last weekend, has begun to find..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Snags Arrival

The Handmaiden, Sadako vs. Kayako in wave two

"...wave, with a huge addition for an opening night film: the highly touted Arrival, the new science fiction thriller..."

Aug. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Blackness And Shadows

Period piece "The Black Torment" and the world's end in "Dead Shadows"

"...cheaper, and maybe none more effective, than opening a film in blackness with spooky sounds...."

May 3, 2014 Screens Post

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Demons' / 'Witchboard'

Director Kevin S. Tenney talks scream queens and classic posters

"...good that, according to director Kevin S. Tenney, another film borrowed it for its VHS cover. "They stuck it..."

Feb. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Restorative Powers

Scorsese nonprofit teams with Mondo & Alamo for film series

"...decay is inevitable. It's true for humans and for film stock: Half of all films made before 1950 are..."

May 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

At the Altar of the Archival

Austin Cinematheque and the essentialness of the shared moviewatching experience.

"...don't have many, unfortunately – a long-forgotten Adrienne Shelly film; a scratched print of Breathless with white subtitles that..."

Feb. 7, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Not Very Martial, Very Little Art

Restored karate flop Death Machines, plus Chan's Amnesia

"...of voiceover and foley-tastic flicks ripe for a modern restoration. Why 1976's bizarre mafia martial arts Death Machines gets..."

Jan. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pastoral Nights & Pagan Rites

Two film series lie back and think of England

"...faces sacrificial immolation in The Wicker Man. Now two film series at the Alamo Ritz show the mystical threads..."

May 29, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...selfish men and the fairy-tale narrative. It is the film's story within a story within a story, as the..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

The Gauntlet

"...the end of the end of this year’s SXSW film festival, but I can’t leave well enough alone. I’ll..."

March 20, 2007 SXSW Post by Spencer Parsons

Ben-hur (1926)

"...modern ultra-budget movie spectacle, Ben-Hur was to the silent film era. Made for a then-record $4 million, this 1926..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Screens Feature

Now Streaming in Austin: Eggshells

Let's get weird with Tobe Hooper's first film

"...The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was Tobe Hooper's first film as a director, tell 'em they're walking on Eggshells...."

April 1, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Alamo Presses Play on VHS Celebration

Special shows launch first book from Drafthouse's book imprint

"...The Alamo Drafthouse is synonymous with film restoration. but it's also dedicated to the preservation of..."

Jan. 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

MondoCon Unleashes Loaded Lineup

Just shut up and take our money!

"...now. MondoCon, the first convention dedicated to graphically inclined film fanatics at print mavens Mondo, has just announced its..."

Aug. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'The Death Penalty Is About Us'

'Dead Man Walking' scribe Sister Helen Prejean speaks in town tonight

"...born the same year – 1995 – that the film version of the book was released, resulting in multiple..."

Dec. 3, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...has hopped up and dropped its first wave of films, with the headline news that JoJo Rabbit, the latest..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...Associates intended to re-create when it took on the restoration of the theatre in the late Nineties. Although the..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...support he needs. Indeed, she already has. The 1922 film Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as the legendary..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

La Lotería Returns

Beloved mural to be restored

"...The restoration of the Eastside's iconic Lotería mural, which was recently..."

July 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

A Peek Into One Boutique's Two Decades of Preservation

AFS Essential Cinema: Selections From Milestone Films

"...entities with personalities and not just invisible behemoths peddling film products to make a buck?..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Returns to Celebrate Itself

Global genre gathering announces streaming lineup

"...would count as a full festival. Twelve features, three restorations, four full slates of shorts (including the return of..."

Sept. 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Shark,' 'Red Winds,' and the Globe

Three personal projects need your help

"...Globe Theatre Restoration..."

June 7, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...of Bell, Klein & Hoffman, he helped oversee the restoration of the Paramount Theatre, Littlefield and Hirschfeld houses, and..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Restoration

Visually magnificent, Restoration is a lovely mess.

"...Restoration..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

'Eggshells' Is an Austin Time Capsule

Tobe Hooper presents 'Eggshells' on Tuesday night with Louis Black

"...Texas, 1968 (back before this town would become a filmmaking capital and years before Tobe Hooper would would break..."

July 7, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Geek Out!

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour epic at long last (and longer), in a Criterion Collection box to end all Criterion boxes

"...great consternation rather than the gloomy but crisply contrasty restoration committed to disc here...."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

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