Community Cinema Brings the Drive-In to East Austin

Outdoor projection is nothing new to the Community First! Village

"...since before the days of cable TV. Now Community Cinema in Eastern Travis County is bringing its expertise in..."

Aug. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Small World and Blurred Boundaries: AFS Essential Cinema

Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema

"...mess in Mexico when it programmed this month's Essential Cinema Series, Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema, isn't really..."

April 3, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The General Specific

AFS Essential Cinema: Love on the Largest Continent: Ten Asian Films

"...cherished souvenir. This summer the Austin Film Society's Essential Cinema film series visits the Asian continent, with stops in..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Renée Zellweger Is Coming to AFS Cinema

Actress will host special screening of Judy

"...on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7pm at the AFS Cinema. The screening will be a fundraiser for AFS' artistic..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Champion of the World Cinema

Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam

"...reference he made to Bollywood or obscure, untranslated Mexican cinema – references I'll probably never fully understand. Let no..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Lost Cinema Reopening in East Austin

Blue Starlite teams with Millennium for community initiative

"...you’ll find a forgotten secret: the last single screen cinema in Austin. Right now, you’re also likely to find..."

Dec. 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Cinema of Possibilities

Low budget or big, the energy and imagination of the grind-house circuit is reborn in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's tribute

"...know, is a celebration of a certain kind of cinematic fare and the theatres that showed it. Robert Rodriguez..."

April 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Local Web site Wows 'Cahiers du Cinema'

Austinite Todd Harbour wins praise from the esteemed French film publication Cahiers du Cinema for his film-and-video Web site, Mobius Home Video Forum.

"...review from the esteemed French film journal Cahiers du Cinema in its November issue. In the notice, Tim Lucas..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

SXSW VR Cinema: Mars Home Planet

In the Hall of the Martian Things

"...So, yes, if you like science fiction in general, or you enjoy solid tech extrapolations vividly depicted in..."

March 14, 2019 SXSW Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: Madness in General

A film review and recommendation for this blur of a year

"...try to explain and celebrate that masterpiece of nails-on-chalkboard cinema Angel, Angel, Down We Go, the only film he..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Confrontational Cinema

Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities

"...murders in the Sixties under the blood-soaked regime of General Suharto. The naked man is featured in Oppenheimer's follow-up,..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Drafthouse Headed to New York

UPDATED: Alamo CEO Tim League talks Manhattan expansion

"...Broadway: The local uberchain will be opening its first cinema in New York in 2013 – on Broadway, no..."

April 5, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Regal Arbor Closed

North Austin art house institution quietly shuttered

"...even its own staff off guard, the Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills closed last week with no announcement..."

Sept. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Short Cuts

"...houses is down to one: the Wells Branch Discount Cinema. But here's the good news. A new state-of-the-art theatre..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Society Takes Over the Marchesa

Lincoln Village site to become permanent two-screen cinema

"...Society was planning to open a permanent two-screen arthouse cinema, the smart money was that it would be the..."

May 4, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Silent Days and Nights

Discovering Live Cinema... Again

"...yearn for something different in movies. I need my cinematic assumptions jolted. That's when a voice whispers, "Pordenone."..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

It's the Village, Idiot!

The latest casualty in Regal Cinemas' nationwide overexpansion isn't just another movie theatre.

"...though. As of last Sunday, Feb. 4, the Village Cinema Art movie theatre -- all four screens and 982..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Zeram

"...that has become increasingly popular in the modern Japanese cinema. The outlandish plot follows the adventures of two bumbling..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Avant-Garde Austin

Experimental Response Cinema announces its spring lineup

"...Experimental Response Cinema, an Austin collective of avant-garde film and video artists,..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Joey Keeton

The Expendables

Sylvester Stallone helms this clash of the titans of action cinema that coasts on its concept while blowing up lots of stuff.

"...sums up this clash with the titans of action cinema, which pits Stallone and his team of aging mercenaries..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...as part of the Austin Film Society's latest Essential Cinema Series program, The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema, Yella..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Film Festival 2011

A few more days to go ...

"...companion Music Conference. The Westgate 11 and the Arbor Cinema at Great Hills have been added to the schedule..."

March 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...(Tales of the Rat Fink, Grass), the border between cinema verité and scripted-seeming sections is a porous one. Yet..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Most Wanted

"...clearly a stone devotee of the school of action-espionage cinema characterized by rogue spy agencies, enigmatically code-named conspiracies, exotic..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Getting Warmer

Essential Cinema tours contemporary Latin America

"...of Latin America, the Austin Film Society's latest Essential Cinema series, have embarked upon a perilous journey of the..."

June 1, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Ciné-Varda

AFS Essential Cinema: Agnes on Agnès

"...becoming fascinated by the world of theatrical artifice. Theatre, cinema, puppetry, music – all fire the imagination of the..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

Two more movie houses are closing -- the Lake Creek Festival Theater and Village Cinema Art --both part of Regal Cinemas' countrywide house cleaning.

"...even a boomtown like Austin couldn't sustain that many cinematic newcomers -- the average citizen only goes to roughly..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Les Saignantes

This Cameroonian-French science fiction satire with Godardian influences is as fascinating as it is obscure.

"...from the Cameroon of the present. When the secretary general with whom she’s having sex in the opening sequence..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The One

"...The One offers a few airy gestures in the general direction of character development. Li, in his double role..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Senegal's Père du Cinéma

AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène

"...The man commonly regarded as the "father of African cinema" – Ousmane Sembène – died just a few years..."

April 1, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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