SXSW Film Review: collective:unconscious

An anthology feature that would make Jung proud

"...Six sections compose the project: five fiction shorts adapted by and from the dreams of Daniel Patrick..."

March 14, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

News Roundup: Tragedies and Textbooks

Another officer-involved shooting; Waco shootout update

"...Rock officers responsible for fatally injuring a man in 2014; an educator highlights how 2010 textbooks white-out history following..."

July 13, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Other Worlds Austin Gets Bigger, Stranger

Four films, three shorts, and an extra screen added

"...(Sanctuary, Defiance), Kristin Kreuk (Smallville and Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1) on the worst job in space: Cleaning all the..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Announces Full Lineup

Exec. dir. Eugenio del Bosque Gómez walks us through the CLAIFF17 slate

"...today the full lineup, boasting another strong mix of narrative and documentary features and shorts culled from as far..."

April 10, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Personal True Tales, Plus New and Returning Texas Legends at SXSW

Film festival director Janet Pierson gives us the 2014 rundown

"...Her first task: Putting together a slate of over 150 films. With the full lineup (barring Midnighters and shorts)..."

Jan. 30, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival Drops 20th Anniversary Lineup

'Inside Llewyn Davis' takes center stage

"...Some 70 features and 100 shorts comprise this year's slate, which also boasts a..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...on biography and background rather than practical reality. In 1987, Austin already had an internationally known, couple-of-decades-old music scene..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

A look at the unsung filmmaker, whose collaborators included Jerry Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, and Porky Pig

"...& roll would be complete without a reference to 1956's The Girl Can't Help It...."

May 25, 2012 Screens Review by Leah Churner

The 'Chronicle' Chronicles

Josh Trank talks YouTube, superheroes and Holocaust footage

"...Ain't It Cool News supremo Harry Knowles had given..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Return to Treehouse

Cloudy with a chance of ice cream

"...I have good news, literati! When last we spoke,..."

Aug. 7, 2011 Books Post by Monica Riese

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

Modern, indeed

"..."gamine," played by a downright luminous Paulette Goddard, the narrative is also bursting with the director's left-leaning politics, which..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

A Film With Me In It

"...A Film With Me In ItNarrative Feature, Midnighters D: Ian Fitzgibbon; with Dylan Moran, Mark..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Film News

Jeff Nichols' Shotgun Stories wins the Narrative Jury Award at AFF; plus, Pras, NAMAC, and Willem Dafoe

"...half-brothers after the death of their father, received the Narrative Feature Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival, which..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

If You Attend One Unconference This Summer ...

PodCamp San Antonio, May 19

"...skills sharing and social-media mania slated for Saturday, May 19, at downtown's Historic Sunset Station...."

May 11, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

A Decade of Cine

El Violín kicks off the 10th Cine Las Americas Film Festival

"...It's become trendy to invoke the "three amigos" – del Toro, Cuarón, and I1;árritu – while declaring that..."

April 13, 2007 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

'Baseball Films From the Silent Era' and 'Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show'

The old, weird America and the old, weird comedian

"..."BASEBALLIUM DEMENTIA," reads Bugs Baer's opening title card in 1920's Headin' Home. "A disease of the brain that attacks..."

March 30, 2007 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Greenaway: The Early Films

"...all the options," Mrs. Talmann tells Mr. Neville in 1982's The Draughtsman's Contract. This is that awkward moment when..."

June 30, 2006 Screens Review by Shawn Badgley

Into the Blue

Reacquaint yourself with one Paul Walker, the Jean-Paul Belmondo of the New Preposterousness

"...frame in a uniform of skater T-shirts and cargo shorts, the Paul Walker presence (at zenith in 2 Fast..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

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SXSW Presents – a new series on KLRU that features beginning, independent documentaries – is the latest development in the vibrant Austin film scene

"...of filmmaking, or one kind of activity. There are narrative and documentary, animated and experimental, industrial and commercial filmmakers..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Luv Doc Recommends: Salute to Linklater

Paramount Theatre, Friday, July 2, 2004

"...bunch of trust fund kids sitting in their boxer shorts sharing a water bong. It could be that some..."

July 2, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

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There is no other place in the country, outside of New York and L.A., with the same quality and quantity of filmmaking and filmmakers as Austin

"...define SXSW Film's focus is to consider Austin. Here narrative, animated, experimental, and documentary filmmakers – whether interested in..."

March 12, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Mr. Demme's Holiday

Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.

"...to select and present a package of Austin-made film shorts to New York audiences in 1981), and has also..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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SXSW: The glorious onslaught begins with film.

"...Film festival screens The Sweetest Sound three times (Alamo, 3/10, 10pm; Alamo 3/13, 7:45pm; Dobie 2, 3/17, 5:30pm). Thinking..."

March 9, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Screen Play

Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference and Festival Wrap-Up

"...Film Festival winds to a close tonight, Thursday, Oct. 14, after a seven-day flurry of panels, screenings, Q&As, afterparties,..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

"...comedy just a few weeks ago). But back in 1994, Adams was an unknown writer who made a huge..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Column

Movies, Comedians, Theatre, and More Arts Options for the Week

Get out and get art

"...Thursday 11 - Saturday 13, Alamo South Lamar..."

April 12, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Decay, Preserve, Observe: The Experimental Memories of Bill Morrison

The cinematic pioneer discusses his career and filmography before his Austin retrospective

"...UT's Visual Arts Center, and the Bass Concert Hall. [inset-1-right]..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Joe Gross

Who Pulled the Trigger on Brad Levi Ayala?

Austin-made documentary short “Less Lethal” spotlights the citizen detective who solved the police shooting

"...case were clear. On May 30 of last year, 16-year-old Brad Levi Ayala was shot in the head with..."

March 26, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Amazon Takes SXSW Streaming

Film festival director Janet Pierson brings some gems to your TV

"...sign up would be free to view for a 10-day run on Amazon Prime for anyone in the U.S...."

May 1, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds

Delivering a Scare Package

"...the slog of filming and releasing his last feature, 2017's Camera Obscura – a process that he called "frustrating."..."

Dec. 6, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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