Anything for John

The making of John Cassavetes' 'Love Streams,' as witnessed by Michael Ventura

"...wouldn't have liked this, but Love Streams is a film that makes a lot more sense when you know..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

William Dear Says Freedom, R.I.P.

Biker tale 'The Northville Cemetery Massacre' revs at Weird Wednesday

"...This was Dear's second film, after 1975's sexploitation flick Nymph. It's almost hard to..."

July 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

So Much Specialness

David Byrne's cult classic True Stories captured a lost Texas and a prescient picture of today

"...attendance for a special screening of the new 4K restoration of the film at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner

Comin' Back at Ya!

Tony Anthony resurrects his 3D Western for Drafthouse Films

"...kickstarted the 1980's 3D minirevival, Tony Anthony and Drafthouse Films saddled it back up, in all its snake-striking, bottle-swinging,..."

March 4, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...to save Europe was to make extravagant, romantic British films." – Michael Powell, Million Dollar Movie..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Arts & Entertainment

"...Best Free Film SeriesAustin Film Society Summer Free For All Film Series..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Best of Austin Feature

New AFS Series More Than Simply Restores Wong Kar-wai's Work

The (almost) complete films of the Hong Kong filmmaker

"...of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema. A filmmaker who never sees his work as complete, as well..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...down, ye unworthies! The final wave of Fantastic Fest films has been unleashed, and not only is it packed..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Announced

Miss Peregrine, Phantasm: Ravager, and more

"...of cinema, has just dropped its first wave of films, with peculiar children, a deep trip to India, VR..."

Aug. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Boy Wonder at 100

Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective

"...Magician provides a survey of Welles' films (finished and otherwise), bolstered by archival interviews with Welles..."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...the antiquated phrasing. For Eddie Muller, president of the Film Noir Foundation and founder of the Noir City family..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...to zombies: Everything you think of, and everything that filmmakers afterwards either mimic or rebel against, come from it...."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: ‘The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp’

Criterion revives an essential British wartime picture

"...Blimp is in America. Indeed, the Archers – the filmmaking collective that was director Michael Powell, screenwriting Emeric Pressburger,..."

March 19, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

We Can't Go Home Again

Piecing through Nicholas Ray's archive at the HRC

"...phone books picked up at random while exploring the filmmaker's archives, which have now found a permanent home at..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...is usually cause for joy, but for thousands of filmmakers, it's the annual time of frayed nerves and to-the-quick-bitten..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Just in Time for Nader '08

Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan on An Unreasonable Man

"...have been, but Phil Donahue speculates such in the film – then this erases it and starts scribbling an..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Saving Emily Dickinson From History in Wild Nights With Emily

Molly Shannon and Madeleine Olnek revise the poet's life and loves

"...Was Emily Dickinson queer and does it matter? Filmmaker Madeleine Olnek says yes and yes: “It matters that..."

April 19, 2019 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

DVDanger: Buster's Mal Heart

Rami Malek's newest and strangest, plus more home releases

"...Rami Malek (Mr. Robot, Short Term 12) is first..."

Sept. 12, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...off, cannibalized (pardon the pun), and referenced by every filmmaker who knows what he or she is doing...."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: My Neighbor Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki's sweet and monstrous classic arrives on Blu-ray

"...featurettes accompanying this re-release, he was dissatisfied with making films in a fantasy environment. He wanted something more familiar,..."

May 21, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Around the World in Eight Films

Cultural snapshots give viewers something to write home about

"...the medium that specializes in light and dark. By filming the nuances of communities great and small, directors give..."

March 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

To Preserve and Project

Moving image archivists in action

"...Barna Kantor and Scott Spark present Seeding the Clouds: Film on Fog at the Town Lake Gazebo, where the..."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Decade Under the Influence

The 'Chronicle' movie critics take a look back at what the Aughts wrought

"...muddles I have witnessed during the last decade of film production – the advances, setbacks, trends, and fashions that..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers

Kino celebrates female filmmaking pioneers

"...First Ladies: Early Women Filmmakers BundleKino International, $49.95 (3-DVD set), $19.95 (individually)..."

May 16, 2008 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Dolce Vita

Decadence, perhaps inevitably, dates itself: Fellini's much-censored 'La Dolce Vita' no longer shocks in its depiction of upper-class excess and listless living the way it did upon release in 1960, but it's a gorgeous artifact, nonetheless

"...LA DOLCE VITA Koch Lorber Films, $34.99..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

Another day, another blah awards show

"...Last Saturday, I tuned into the First Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Awards broadcast live on CBS. Just what..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Lot of Livin' to Do

For 15 years, Paul Beutel has managed Austin's Paramount Theatre, programming its popular film series and live shows and bringing it back from financial ruin, and he still puts in six to seven days a week there. Where do his passion and devotion spring from? Would you believe Bye Bye Birdie?

"...Beutel falls into place: his love of musicals, his film degree, his stints as an American-Statesman film critic and..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Reading The Riot Act With Devon Parks

Arkansas filmmaker on the lessons of no-resource cinema

"...it's not that long since Austin didn't have a filmmaking scene. It took sweat and DIY energy to make..."

Jan. 18, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Terror Tuesday Continues to Be the Alamo’s Bloody Beating Heart

Horror series send shivers up the aisles

"...first Terror Thursday, handed over the reins to the film freak he called his "first and only choice," Joseph..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Beware the Jungle Trap

Director Jim Bryan on Hollywood's seedy and sublime

"...z-movie connoisseurs at Bleeding Skull! (read all about the restoration from Bryan and Bleeding Skull! founder Joseph Ziemba here)...."

July 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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