DVDanger: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Horror's underappreciated auteur on existential terror

"...clear whether the creature is real, or just the lens through which the characters process the world. He said,..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...stuff – exciting new works in American and international independent cinema. The Austin roll call is encouragingly long this..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

AFS Grants Announced

$115,000 awarded to filmmakers

"...contemporary national issues in public higher education, through the lens of Texas' two flagship schools, the University of Texas..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...the first directors to truly understand how film and lenses worked. His shadows were black, his whites scorching, his..."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Talking Shop With Curran Nault

The Polari artistic director on programming to bridge divides

"...the black and gay communities, as seen through the lens of the gay marriage debate. Deep South tackles HIV/AIDS..."

Oct. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Kate X Messer

DIY, and So Can I

KLRU's 'Arts in Context' mirrors the the collaboration and can-do of the artists it profiles

"...tell the story of whatever Austin arts entity Troncoso's lens is focused on...."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Two Gorehounds Go West

Horror directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks tackle a period Western

"...duo talk with film-geek pride of using an anamorphic lens to achieve the look of the spaghetti Westerns they..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...Bartel, who has been dancing, choreographing, promoting, and presenting independent dance in Austin since 1994 and is happily settled..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Playback: Red River's Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Red River venues re-entrench and Panchanga Fest once again settles comfortably into Fiesta Gardens

"...designs with the local music culture. Days later, an independent jury selected finalists for the Waller Creek project and..."

May 11, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

How High

Divination or hallucinogenic drug? Whichever way you look at it, The Spirit Molecule is gonna move you.

"...MS: It's been a run-and-gun, completely independent process the entire way. I think the main thing..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 2010

"...9pm, the Independent @ 501 Studios Trinidad-born Tajiri Kamau has called New..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...& Kristin Armfield (Co-Director). Screenwriter: Georgia Sugimura Keeping the independent/punk spirit alive, barbershop quartet fan Robb Topolski takes on..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Film News

Local docmaker Heather Courtney heads to Afghanistan, and the 2009 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Courtney Aims Lens at Afghanistan..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

The Wizard of Gore Returns

Herschell Gordon Lewis releases his inner Herschell Gordon Lewis

"...as easily as he sprayed blood on the camera lens half a century ago...."

May 25, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...and impede progress around the world. … Through the lens of the Arts, ArtesAméricas can play an important role..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature

The Austin Film Society's Sublime Lines

Essential Cinema series: Japanese Animé

"...– to fight for integrity and the honor of independent bush pilots. This whimsical plot makes up 1992's Porco..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...free thought and ideas," as Nightbyrd put it. An independent printer and activist named Larry Freudiger printed The Rag's..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

The Usual Suspects

The first year of the Will Wynn era closes to very mixed reviews, as Austinites wonder whether the city leadership is floundering.

"...not only the dynamics within City Hall but the lens through which City Hall is viewed. "In a downturn,..."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Stranded

Karen Bernstein's 'Are the Kids Alright?' examines the state of mental health care in Texas

"...(assuming he remembers to take them) – segues into independent adulthood or ... fill in the blank. The latter,..."

July 9, 2004 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Greener Pastures

Youth, Joy, and Jean Arthur

"...almost pathologically neurotic, with a proclivity toward drink. Determined, independent, her inheritance included a frontiersman's ballast, the kind that..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

The Emmy Awards finally come to fruition, local boxer Jesus Chavez hits HBO, and the most delicious diva show on television.

"...explores cultures with divavision -- that is, through the lens of the independent women whose vision, individualism, and actions..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...In the Vaseline-smeared lens version of my Chronicle movie, it goes like this:..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

She's Gotta Have It, Pi

"...As one of the key figures of the Eighties independent film scene, Lee opened the door for indie filmmakers..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...the two sides, which, when sold to a Nashville independent in 1950, became his first single. The record, "Jealous..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

There's Something About Kubrick

"...end so much of it was filtered through the lens of personal reportage...."

July 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Getting Personal

"...too many compelling real-world subjects out there competing for lens time to be off frivolously mining her own stuff...."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...(SWAMP), and KUHT-TV (Houston) showcases some of the best independent film and video shorts from around the world. Featured..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

Scan Lines

"...tubs o' fake pus, but it does move this independent studio's work up a notch by including an actual..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...we have become accustomed to seeing as heroes among independent films set in economically oppressed, minority communities: Surrounded by..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

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