Flicker's Got Super-8 for a Super Dad

How to buy Dad a beer for his special day but still avoid the Hooters' cliché.

"..."I didn't know it was a holiday," claims Flicker Austin über-madchen Cory Ryan. A likely story. Austin's celebrated..."

June 14, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Flicker's Best

Thursday, Feb. 17, 9:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown

"...the world – New York, California, Louisiana, France, Germany, Austin, and elsewhere. And now Flicker Austin, the little bimonthly..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival Announces 25 Film Writers to Watch

Celebrating the voices that start the creative process

"...that keeps going is the creation of ideas. As Austin Film Festival consistently reminds us, it all starts with..."

May 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Announces Audience, Jury Awards

Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain takes top award in both

"...as one of the big winners at this year's Austin Film Festival...."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Flicker No.7

"...Directed by: Various.. Flicker No. 7 marks the one-year anniversary of this bimonthly..."

Feb. 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 12: The Second Year Anniversary Show

"...celebrates the ongoing festival's second year of operation in Austin. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions..."

Jan. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 11

"...local and national filmmakers who submit works via mail. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

Nov. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flicker No. 10

"...local and national filmmakers who submit works via mail. Flicker guarantees an array of projects and intriguing juxtapositions at..."

Aug. 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Top 20 Austin Breweries of 2020

It's time for our annual Central Texas Brewery Power Rankings

"...So despite the scurrying about by the Austin-area beer scene, we went ahead and power ranked 'em..."

Nov. 11, 2020 Food Post by Eric Puga

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Our favorite albums, videos, and performances

"...No fan of lockdown, the iconic and irascible Austin High graduate, 75, keeps busy by ruminating on life...."

July 3, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Stories Behind Austin’s Iconic Signs

How both classic neon and changing design continue to draw patrons to local restaurants and theatres

"...Many of Austin's most iconic signs have weathered theft, damage, and waves..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Jessi Cape

Small-Gauge Samurai

Super-8 enthusiast Cory Ryan brings Flicker to town.

"...Which brings us to Austin's Flicker Film Festival, a bimonthly mini-fest featuring short, small-gauge..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Shortcuts

Kodak's light shines down on Flicker.

"...but a recent chat with Cory Ryan of the Flicker Austin Film Fest revealed that Kodak, far from hedging..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2

You have to wonder about some of these people

"...The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Short Cuts

Tim League and Harry Knowles team up to screen good movies for good causes.

"...a move guaranteed to turn film geeks outside of Austin positively emerald with envy, Harry Knowles of www.aintitcool.com and..."

April 4, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Cast & crew calls for two upcoming productions, plus get Dad drunk in Super-8 style.

"...the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. With luck, we'll have another Austinite in the bloody apron and dead-skin-mask combo, thus assuring..."

June 7, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

The Alamo Drafthouse is feelin' alright, while the rest of Austin isn't feeling too good itself.

"...well as other additions to the lineup, including the Flicker Austin Film Fest, which has moved its quarterly screenings..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

The Austin film community activates its turbo boosters.

"...out of the gate is Cory Ryan's shindig for Flicker Austin, the bimonthly small-gauge microfest that screens regularly at..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Good movies, good cause: LunaFest lands in town to raise cash for The Breast Cancer Fund.

"...don't have anywhere to screen your glory? Local mini-fest Flicker Austin still has several spots open in their program..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Cinematexas marches on, while local movie theatre attendance takes a hit.

"...and the continuing state of nervous uncertainty virtually everywhere, Austin theatre attendance has experienced a sizable drop-off. Alamo Drafthouse..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

First Look: Craftsman

Vintage charm and craft cocktails

"...has been fascinated with barcraft ever since moving to Austin for college. Eventually, that led to his own place...."

May 20, 2015 Food Post by Andrew Thomas

Wreck of the Elizabeth Dane

Ghost stories

"...Ghost stories, lullabies: spectral opposites of the same comfort...."

July 13, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

WEST Pop-Up at the Neill-Cochran House Museum

For the West Austin Studio Tour, 15 artists show their work in this historic Austin home to varying and delightful effect

"...than this weekend, when, in conjunction with the West Austin Studio Tour, the site is not only spectacularly transformed,..."

May 18, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Members of the Austin Critics Table have considered the hundreds of stage productions,..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Feed an Artist, Nourish the World

Austin School of Film underground and avant-garde shorts

"...and repurposed by the corporate and conformist mainstream first flicker their way into being. It is, in short, the..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Weathering the Storm

The Austin Lightning look to gain a foothold in Austin as soccer is primed for the national spotlight

"...past on the trail. "Somebody for development, Jaime?" an Austin Lightning player says with a smile to coach Jaime..."

June 22, 2007 Sports Feature by Joe O'Connell

Trail of Ray

Keeping track of Crashcam

"...So says Crashcam Films' Bob Ray of his upcoming Austin-lensed roller derby doc Hell on Wheels, which is currently..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Luv Doc Recommends: Salvage Vanguard Cinema

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Saturday, April 17, 2004

"...in hell you can make every cool event in Austin this weekend, even if you try. Unless you’re a..."

April 16, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Testosterone Rules

Third Place, the 12th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest

"...game until she sees me looking at her. A flicker in her face as she registers my distress, and..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Books Feature by Ameni Rozsa

Short Cuts

The Austin film community becomes a forum, just after it becomes a juggernaut. Plus, the Arbor sprouts again.

"...for Years Dept.: Check it, G -- films by Austin directors, casts, and crews now hold three of the..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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