Greener Pastures

David Gordon Green reflects on a full career before his induction into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...David Gordon Green has never attended the Texas Film Awards before, and he's not sure what to expect...."

Feb. 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Quick, Good, and Good for You

Reel Women brings Lunafest to Austin

"...Let's face it: A film festival sponsored by a women's nutrition bar might seem..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Jess Sauer

Love and Cinema: Janet and John Pierson

Texas Film Awards honorees and indie cinema's fairy godparents Janet and John Pierson look back on 40 years at the movies

"...Creed III star Jonathan Majors – into the Texas Film Awards' roster of honorees. They bristle a little at..."

March 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Building the Perfect Beast for Skylines

Director Liam O'Donnell on evolving the Skyline aliens

"...How do you make an alien more terrifying, three films in to a series? Especially when the first film..."

Dec. 17, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...work with "found footage" in the early Eighties, co-opting film from other sources and reinventing it for his own,..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Coming of Age

"...Dawn Cooper and Cyndy Kirkland of Reel Women inside the Alamo Drafthouse, one of the venues..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Zupan on Impact

'Murderball' and the making of a celebrity

"...at a hotel bar in Los Angeles, sipping on something called a Wilderberry Martini, exhausted...."

July 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The Home School

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.

"...Filmmakers here have long supported each other and made films..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Further Reflections

"...Anderson Included here are reviews of some of the films that played during the SXSW '99 Film Festival. Other..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...what might be spilled Coca-Cola but is almost certainly something much, much worse. But it's cool because I'm wearing..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Super-8's Super Fans

The Cinemaker Co-op preserves the art of the littlest of motion picture formats -- Super-8 -- and trains tomorrow's filmmakers along the way.

"...recall stumbling across a cache of my father's old film equipment secreted away in our spacious, chilly, and forbiddingly..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Nine Days

Winston Duke sits in judgment on the worth of life in this metaphysical drama

"...dozen questions, but at the risk of spoiling the film’s gentle mysteries, I’ll stop there. Still: It made me..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Anxiety of Influence

Teenagers Georgia and Wyatt Pierson on their family's filmic mission to Fiji

"...message about the whole operation absconding to a "Fiji film colony," which sounded like a joke or a stunt,..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Coming Next Week

Nine people who have never made a film make one in a weekend

"...Chronicle will be taking readers inside the 48 Hour Film Project...."

July 6, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Short Cuts

Lightning strikes twice for vid artists Jason Archer and Paul Beck; plus Helen Lee, Kier-La Janisse, and Lunafest.

"...can't strike three times?)... Congratulations to University of Texas film phenom Helen Lee, whose short "Sophie" picked up a..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Confessions of a Mind on Overdrive

Troy Dillinger has so much to give

"...together three minutes of show highlights called a "sizzle reel." Last week at a meeting of the Variety Show..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Guess Who's Coming to Terrorize Your Night

UT alum Bryan Bertino's nerve-shattering debut, 'The Strangers'

"...Real horror, anyway, as opposed to reel horror (the latter of which is all-too-often as random..."

May 30, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...have got numerous hours of our jam sessions on reel to reel tape. I have got to find a..."

March 24, 2006 Column

Into Thin Air

The already under way adventures of Austinites at the Dances Sun and Slam, and what they might mean for the local scene

"...Of course, there's nothing new about filmmakers struggling to get prints ready in time for Sundance,..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The 11th Hour

Tim McCanlies eyes the finish line

"...Inside a screening room at the Austin Film Society, Tim McCanlies is busy finishing the sound mix..."

March 13, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"...its implications, from our vocabulary when discussing the Austin film scene? It bespeaks the terminology of the outsider, a..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

That Time of the Month

Christian Remde spans the calendar year with his Twelve Films Project

"...a grueling, whirlwind weekend shoot for the 48 Hour Film Project, and Remde overlooked one minor detail as he..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...you a brief rundown on the seventh annual Austin Film Festival and Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference, which is..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Do Not Try This at Home

Tom Six on the surgical horrors of The Human Centipede

"...Generally speaking, Austin film festival audiences aren't prone to walkouts. Sure, some people..."

May 7, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Plastic Platoon

Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures

"...fall of Saigon, more critically successful and culturally influential films have been made about Vietnam than any other war..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How Two Texans Helped Make it Snow for Frozen II

Disney worldbuilders Jay Jackson and Brandon Jarratt explain the technology and art of the animated smash

"...Every time you see a snowflake in Frozen II,..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Growing Up in War Zones

The magic of cinema inspires kids in a Kurdish village to take camera in hand

"...applies to the former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival who once took the fest to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina,..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Short Cuts

The Austin film community becomes a forum, just after it becomes a juggernaut. Plus, the Arbor sprouts again.

"...Been Here for Years Dept.: Check it, G -- films by Austin directors, casts, and crews now hold three..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Minnow Mountain Co-Founder Goes Into the Archives

Animation studio's Steph Swope takes a mountaintop view

"...and so we decided, 'Let's get serious, let's make something together.'" Staggs rewrote the script into a seven-episode webseries..."

Sept. 4, 2020 Screens Feature

What Comes 'Up' ...

Director Pete Docter on the intersection of uplift and melancholy

"...directed what is widely regarded as the first animated film, "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces," 103 years ago. From..."

May 29, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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