The Documentary Craft

Hector Galán: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...in Austin and immediately began production on such noted films as The Hunt for Pancho Villa, Songs of the..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest First Wave Announced

Miss Peregrine, Phantasm: Ravager, and more

"...of cinema, has just dropped its first wave of films, with peculiar children, a deep trip to India, VR..."

Aug. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...year’s Sundance Film Festival was the wealth of standout films made by Austin directors. Today, the South by Southwest..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Slacker Added to National Film Registry

'Slacker' and works from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image selected

"...Richard Linklater's Slacker is among the 25 films added today to the National Film Registry of the..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Take Three

Texas film incentives don't always carry sufficient funding

"...On April 23, things were looking good for the Texas film industry. After months of negotiations, marquee names from..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Film News

Incentives in the Senate: Does Steve Ogden want to censor filmmakers shooting in Texas?

"...good, but now comes the sticky question of which films will rate funds. In a recent public hearing, Sen...."

May 11, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

"...of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Set amid the West Texas landscape with which he is so personally familiar, Jones’..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Secondhand Lions

In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.

"...Tim McCanlies' Secondhand Lions is that rarest of family films, one that encapsulates a mood that can be appreciated..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...my mind than visions of the marathon of independent films that awaited my arrival in the mountains of Park..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ask Questions First, Shoot Later

In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.

"...1992, finishing it eight years later. Before that, your films -- like Quilting Women, Coal Mining Women, Hand-Carved --..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...Drafthouse on Wednesday, October 22, as part of the Texas Documentary Tour. Smith has been making movies since he..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Short Cuts

"...in this column than merely whet your curiosity. Short Films from Latin America is the title of a unique..."

May 9, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Society Announces 2022 Filmmaker Grant Recipients

Projects from PJ Raval, Don Swaynos to financial support

"...and lives by giving essential funding to projects around Texas. Now the latest list of recipients has been announced..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...has hopped up and dropped its first wave of films, with the headline news that JoJo Rabbit, the latest..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Auld Lost Cine

Here's a sobering stat: Nearly 90% of studio films are lost or destroyed

"...There are all kinds of lost films, from those films finished but never got a theatrical..."

Dec. 31, 2012 Screens Post by Louis Black

The Killer Inside Me

Director Michael Winterbottom makes some fatal storytelling miscalculations in this screen adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel that stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson.

"...to the blows. Affleck plays Lou Ford, a rural Texas flatfoot whose pleasant demeanor masks the sexual sadist and..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Second Shot at 'Shootin' Match'

On the eve of the pending DVD release and Friday night's premiere of the restored and remastered The Whole Shootin' Match, Sonny Carl Davis and Lou Perryman reminisce about the late Eagle Pennell and the films they made together

"...inspired Redford to think about how to support independent films and filmmakers. Redford had nothing to do with the..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

State Fair

Recognizing the pictures, but also the kinds of spirits who appreciate them: the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...It's a story that Texas Monthly Editor and Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Steve Uhler

The Amityville Horror

A dream home on Long Island is not all it's cracked up to be: The family inside sees dead people.

"...much as hear, feel, and sense them. In both films, the intrepid Lutz family (mother, stepfather, three kids, and..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice

AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras& #225;nchez Sr.

"...the movies is the entertainment event of the week, films that provide the most bang for one's buck are..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Alamo

In this round of historical revisionism there's not much to remember except, maybe, Davy Crockett becoming a fiddler on the roof.

"...outsized characters and freighted with the full weight of Texas legend atop it. It’s loud – the cannon fire..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unrelentingly Hostile

Three decades later, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' is still about everyday evil. In 1977, two UT grad students explained.

"...a tip of the hat to the Forties horror films of Val Lewton -- as well as to Alfred..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Through a Student's Lens, Quirkily

Texas Documentary Tour presents "10 Under 10"

"...again, it could be that watching all those cat films in the luxe comfort of Perry's cat home-theatre is..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Girls in the Hood

Girls Like Us: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...on February 11 as this month's selection in the Texas Documentary Tour. Wagner and DiFeliciantonio will be present to..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

Paul Thomas Anderson on His Friendship With Jonathan Demme

Phantom Thread director to receive Texas Film Award

"...Anderson will receive the award at the Texas Film Awards ceremony, alongside Variety's One to Acclaim winner,..."

March 2, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...With NoLa metal master Phil Anselmo and Texas true crime writer Corey Mitchell cracking the whip at..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Prince Avalanche

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch co-star in David Gordon Green's pleasing backcounty dramady, whose tone is heightened by its setting in burned-out Bastrop, Texas.

"...Filming in the burnt-out woodlands of Bastrop, Texas (devastated by the wildfires of 2011), proves to have..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Larger Than Life

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Mountains, few states have beguiled the silver screen as Texas has. As the backdrop for such epics as Giant..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Another 'Special Session'

Political series returns to PBS in February.

"...Settin' the Woods on Fire, Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style (documenting the Patrick Rose/Rick Green electoral battle) and..."

Jan. 24, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Life of David Gale

"...never been accused of is understatement. From such early films as Bugsy Malone and Midnight Express to midcareer projects..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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