Austin Film Festival Announces Full Lineup

AFF's finalized lineup

"...Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, and Kelly Reichardt's followup to Old Joy, Wendy..."

Sept. 24, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

American Gangster

A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.

"...Gugino, Joe Morton and Common. Based on Mark Jacobson's New York magazine article, American Gangster does a crackerjack job..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Playwrights

Four Austin playwrights are getting the opportunity to develop and showcase new work in the Big Apple

"...that she'd been selected as a resident playwright of New Dramatists, a national membership organization that provides support for..."

June 2, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cinemania

Cinema-obsessed filmgoers are the subject of this documentary.

"...while," explains grandmotherly, bespectacled Roberta, one of the five New York City cineastes who are the subjects of this..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Phone Booth

"...at 81 minutes) in the confined location of a new York City telephone booth. The plot mechanics devised to..."

April 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Better Living Through Circuitry

"...the blissed-out attendees of a California desert rave to New York illbient turntablist DJ Spooky, who drops as much..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Addiction

"...The movies of Abel Ferrara (Ms. 45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) are not meant to go down..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vanya On 42nd Street

"...the old Ziegfeld Follies theatre on 42nd Street, the New Amsterdam. Idle for years, the theatre's proper stage cannot..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Body Snatchers

"...Invasion of the Body Snatchers, manages to find a new slant on the old story about alien invaders who..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior

"...John Ryan. With American Cyborg, Yoram Globus and his new company Global Pictures sever his ties with former co-producer..."

Jan. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Warlock: The Armageddon

"...make muck of a horror film. Reborn in modern New York (where else?), the black-clad Warlock (Sands) is on..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Thing Called Love

"...Dale Gilmore. Miranda Presley (Mathis) takes the bus from New York to Nashville to make it as a singing/songwriting..."

Sept. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

"...of inspired formats: one was to the tune of “New York, New York” (it must have been Jason Takes..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mistress

"...for a living. His wife (Metcalf) is back in New York trying to reassemble their lives by opening a..."

Nov. 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Night and the City

"...and Regis Philbin. Harry Fabian (De Niro) is a New York City character -- part fool, part hustler. He's..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Public Eye

"...freelance photographer Weegee, whose brutally realistic tabloid photos of New York City nightlife defined an era, the rest of..."

Oct. 23, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

A Stranger Among Us

"...not an impediment to her plausibility as a tough-as-nails New York City detective? And should you be capable of..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Voices From the Front

"...film points out that during the last decade in New York over 50 hospitals have been closed, even as..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

David Carr Did Not Give Up the Secret Sauce

No silver bullet but NY Times guy still a helluva spokesman for new media

"...New York Times media reporter David Carr is that rare..."

Oct. 25, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Tommaso

Abel Ferrara’s (self-)portrait of the artist in (self-)martyrdom

"...their creative partner. In Tommaso, the heavily autobiographical, semi-improvised new self-portrait from Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe is the filmmaker,..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Your friendly neighborhood web-head goes beyond Peter Parker

"...be contemporary and grounded about the struggles of being New York's favorite superhero when you aren't a god or..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...about the nightclub that was the brightest light in New York City’s nightlife for the brief 33 months that..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Truth in Journalism: The Making of The Post

Reporters and researchers on Spielberg's journalistic epic

"...Renato Perez came home from his shift at The New York Times, he got a call from assistant foreign..."

Jan. 15, 2018 Screens Post by Acacia Coronado

Patti Cake$

A hip-hop star is born in New Jersey

"...the body of a plus-sized white girl in northern New Jersey who dreams of success as a rap superstar...."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Phantom Boy

Hand-drawn animation is the hallmark of this animated French film

"...surreal. Leo’s phantom self caroms around a sketchy, pseudo-Mondrian New York skyline with overlong, trailing limbs, as though reluctant,..."

July 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Secret Life of Pets

Hollywood has the cure for those dog-day afternoons of summer

"...An animated Homeward Bound hopscotching through New York’s boroughs, The Secret Life of Pets paints the..."

July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The First Monday in May

The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up

"...of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute of New York makes for a pretty irresistible metaphor for how..."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Manhattan Romance

New York-set indie rom-com just goes through the motions

"...in Showtime’s Masters of Sex; alas, wasted here), a new-age hippie waif whom he knows from a free-dance group...."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Wolfpack

This doc makes us privy to a family that's like none we've ever seen before

"...stark, grimy confines of a public housing apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Home-schooled and kept apart from..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Weird City Hip-Hop Festival: Jean Grae

Call her a femcee and risk ‘Fight Club’

"...Weird City cyphers Saturday at the Empire Control Room, New York rap idol Jean Grae talks femcees, the possible..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

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