Austin Film Festival: 'Happy Ending'

AFF Film Review

"...Atsuhiro Yamada's debut feature also verges on becoming something of a Japanese offshoot of American mumblecore. Protagonist Na..."

Oct. 25, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...with not just a few titles for this year's film festival, but the complete list of all the movies..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...with 2018, but 2018 isn't done with you. While festival season is just a few calendar flips away (looking..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film

Film Reviews

"...key elements that makes Safe such an enormously challenging film is that writer/director Todd Haynes leaves these critical decisions..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...in general, not as much attention drawn to the filmmaker's style in deference to the story line. Co-produced by..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Searching for New Heights at Film Fests Reel Rock 14 and Reel Plastic

Two rock-climbing film fest come to Austin

"...– have been captured in critically lauded, widely distributed films, is allowing the once fringe sport to reach new..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Included here are more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional reviews..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Austin Chronicle review that ran in March when this film premiered in Austin at the SXSW FIlm Festival. Texas..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...performances - there was Public Access, Singer's first feature-length film. Made in 1992, Public Access i s just now..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

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"...the Week That Was, Get Smart) and scripts for films such as The Graduate and Catch-22. Credit must also..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

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"...bizarre cult hit Twister comes this genuinely affecting comedy-horror film that updates the Dracula lineage to present-day New York..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

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"...the theremin has had on popular American culture. The filmmaker interviews a variety of people in telling this story:..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...the theremin has had on popular American culture. The filmmaker interviews a variety of people in telling this story:..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film News

Robert Rodriguez starts shooting 'Shorts,' and other local production news

"...independent studio Media Rights Capital, which describes the family film as about what happens when "a mysterious object that..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Rodriguez and Q.T. go back to the grind; plus, 'Screen Door Jesus,' back to Sundance, and all kinds of opportunities to get involved

"...on Grind House, with each directing an hourlong horror film, the always-tight-lipped Rodriguez's spokesperson confirmed. The two films will..."

June 10, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

Fox fairies, ultra-violence, and amnesia dominated 2015

"...you ate that sandwich, or that bill passed. But films get weird in a town like Austin, where the..."

Jan. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...every sense of the word. Kidron's (Used People) latest film outdrags, outdresses, and generally outdoes last year's Australian hit..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Fantasia Review: Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

A life in the grindhouse is not obscured by a tragic death

"...death that was as unbelievably gruesome as anything he filmed...."

Aug. 5, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reel Women Shorts

"...of shorts made (mostly) by women and sponsored by Reel Women, our local network of women filmmakers. Although weightier..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Film News

Last thoughts on Altman, courtesy of collaborator Stephen Harrigan; plus, incentives and local interest

"...Robert Altman died, with an early 2007 start to filming planned. Now, the project is in limbo. "All I..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Food Events

Upcoming food related events

"...› Whole Foods Market kicks off the annual Do Something Reel Film Festival with a screening of The Apple..."

April 20, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Community Building

Ed Radtke's Speed of Life opens the 2009 Austin Asian American Film Festival

"...Speed of Life, filmmaker Ed Radtke's third feature, is set in Brooklyn and..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Cool Keeps On

Fourteen years after AICN woke up the Web, three Austin film sites carry on the tradition

"...Knowles kick-started his already turbocharged imagination and created his film-and-comic book review/scoop/rumor site Ain't It Cool News, there was,..."

June 18, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Boys to Men

"...Boys to Men is a compilation of four short films by different directors that have been grouped together by..."

July 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Family Is an Island

The Piersons on 'Reel Paradise'

"...takes movies too seriously. We compose special lists of films, and in moments of disappointment and desperation, we retreat..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Three Guys, a Girl, and a Dog Named Friday

Austin film collective Jollyville Pictures on its ingredients for success

"...Right now though, chances are you've at least seen something that involved a member of the loosely knit, four-person..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Think film festivals are all about dour, arty indie pics? Yeah,..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"..." -- death of film? Oh yeah, it's been dead since Technicolor came in..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Selena Gomez, Conan O’Brien, Sydney Sweeney Top SXSW’s Sixth Featured Speakers Announcement

Danny Brown, Nick Kroll, and Kirsten Dunst also announced

"...and Sydney Sweeney, have signed on to attend the festival...."

Feb. 27, 2024 SXSW Post by Carys Anderson

Thanks for the Memories

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

"...would have first started South by Southwest as a film event and added music later, rather than the other..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

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