Austin Film Society Honors Drafthouse Founders at Texas Film Awards

Tim and Karrie League join Michelle Rodriguez and Noah Hawley as this year’s Hall of Fame inductees

"...and Karrie is reminiscent of when Janet and John Pierson were similarly honored in 2023. Their impact on cinema..."

Feb. 28, 2025 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Michelle Rodriguez, Noah Hawley, and the Leagues to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

AFS to hold its biggest fundraiser at March 6 ceremony

"...franchise. She will be inducted by her old friend, Robert Rodriguez, who directed her in Machete, Machete Kills, and..."

Jan. 29, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man

"...Film Society with an inaugural class that included scriptwriters Robert Benton and Bill Witliff, actor Sissy Spacek, and columnist..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film & TV Festival Announces Jury & Special Awards

Bob Trevino Likes It, Grand Theft Hamlet win top prizes

"...Texas Award, the Kickstarter NextGen Award, and the Janet Pierson Champion Award presented by Indiewire...."

March 14, 2024 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Review: Hyde Park Theatre's Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...by Bob, the unlikable editor of The New Yorker (Robert Pierson), and Joyce, the thin-skinned freelance journalist who wrote..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Review: Hyde Park Theatre’s Caught

Theatrical bait and switch drives this intriguing, infuriating play

"...by Bob, the unlikable editor of The New Yorker (Robert Pierson), and Joyce, the thin-skinned freelance journalist who wrote..."

Aug. 28, 2023 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

We Have an Issue: Chaotic Good

SXSW is an absolute beast, but our special pullout issue is here to help you navigate it

"...box-office heavyweight Jonathan Majors, Kevin Smith, Janet and John Pierson, Margo Martindale, Luke Wilson, and more...."

March 10, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Acting With Character: Margo Martindale at the Texas Film Awards

At 71, the Texan is a bigger star than ever ... and just getting started

"...stage and screen, working with directors like Tony Scott, Robert Benton, Neil Jordan, and Rob Reiner, has made her..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

From New Line to Warners, the exec discusses his career

"...role, under the mentorship of New Line Cinema cofounder Robert Shaye. De Luca himself became president of production at..."

March 2, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Get Your Tickets for the 41st Annual Austin Music Awards

"...SXSW Speaker List Swells: Robert Downey Jr., William Shatner, Deepak Chopra, Tilda Swinton, Priyanka..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Changes the Channel With a New Name

Festival gives TV content co-headline billing

"...novel by Austin writer Philip Meyer; and of course Robert Rodriguez's small-screen version of From Dusk Till Dawn. There..."

July 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...new titles of the year. Film Festival Director Janet Pierson said, "While we won’t have the wonderful in-person SXSW..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Demi Lovato Doc Opening SXSW Film 2021

Punk icons, serial killers, wrestlers, and comedy in movie list

"...their story so authentically and without pretense,” said Janet Pierson, Director of Film. “We’re privileged to present this intimate..."

Jan. 14, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elizabeth Cobbe's Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019

It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive

"...10) It's double-dipping, but ROBERT PIERSON re-entered (and reanimated) as a zombie with his..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Capital T Theatre's It Is Magic

This captivating staging of Mickle Maher's comedy debates theatre's enchantments where Macbeth meets "The Three Little Pigs"

"...theatre's magic, might seem to be a pushover for Robert Pierson's brutally jaundiced Ken, but she's shown a gift..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Film News: Linklater, Rodriguez, and a Case of Millennium Bugs

Production updates, new releases, and job opportunities

"...Video. Writer/director Alejandro Montoya Marín is a graduate of Robert Rodriguez's Rebel Without a Crew reality show, during which..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Capital T Theatre's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece

"...more importantly, betrayed by his defense of it. Here, Robert Pierson brings such an earnestness to his portrayal of..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Shirley Manson and Lauren Mayberry Will Keynote SXSW

Scottish singers among first wave of speakers for SXSW 2019

"...founder Jason Blum in conversation indie cinema's godfather John Pierson. Tech Industry & Enterprise..."

Sept. 10, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...(classical music), Jonelle Seitz (dance), Shanon Weaver (theatre), and Robert Faires (arts); Central Texas Live Theatre's Michael Meigs (theatre)..."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...U.S. debuts, and 43 first-time filmmakers. Festival director Janet Pierson, who celebrates a decade at the helm, said, "As..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Double Nickelodeons on the Dime

Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films

"...Nelson, and Angie Dickinson; Tender Mercies (May 29), featuring Robert Duvall in his Oscar-winning performance as an alcoholic country..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Salvage Vanguard Theater's Thr3e Zisters

This zombified take on Chekhov gets reanimated right when we need women who will bite back at the patriarchy

"...been installed as our misogynist-in-chief. For in Lola B. Pierson's deconstruction of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, first staged by..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Playback: John Doe Moves to Austin

X's John Doe moves to Austin, Adam Nurre celebrates his late bandmates, and The Shopkeeper takes Congress House Studio to the movies

"...keep a low profile like legendary onetime Austin resident Robert Plant, he lets out a loud laugh...."

Feb. 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...returns to the Fest! Cast: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, Zelda Rubinstein, Kate Lang Johnson, Britain..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Terrence Malick Film to Open SXSW

Ryan Gosling pic about the music industry filmed at ACL, Fun Fun Fun

"...at film festivals, although SXSW Director of Film Janet Pierson was the first to pioneer it – features the..."

Jan. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hotel Vanya, or A Metaphysical-Paradigm at the End of Everythingness

For a getaway steeped in Chekhovian longing and ennui, The Hotel Vanya is the only place to stay

"...of the settee or scribbling down ideas for jokes, Robert Pierson's Vanya radiates a still-vital spark of joy, a..."

June 3, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Cobbe (theatre), Jonelle Seitz (dance), Shanon Weaver (theatre), and Robert Faires (arts). Note: Members of the Table refrained from..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2015

Wild theatrical energy and masterful performances were the hallmarks of outstanding theatre in 2015

"...In Lola Pierson's irreverent take on Chekhov, those siblings pining for Moscow..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: Lights, Camera, Print Media

October 1985 was the strangest month

"...the obvious, and in no particular order: Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, Laura Dunn, Hector Galán, Kat Candler, the Zellner..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Louis Black

The Strangerer

Bush 43 ponders murder and existentialism while debating Kerry in this ambitious comedy from Capital T

"...a 90-minute debate between Kerry (Ken Webster) and Bush (Robert Pierson), moderated by Jim Lehrer (Jason Phelps)...."

June 12, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

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