Where Fences Don't Make Good Neighbors

AFS Doc Nights: Purgatorio

"...Imagine a doc about the border, stripped of its hot-button politics and geographical context. Mexico..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

American Animals

Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama

"...fact and fiction in documentary cinema? For many moviegoers, documentaries are synonymous with truth, a re-creation of historical events..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Missing in Brooks County Explores a New Location for the Immigration Crisis

Cine Las Americas selection explores death [not] on the border

"...estimated 20,000 undocumented immigrants have died crossing the U.S./Mexico border, and many have been lost in the arid scrubland..."

June 4, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...Driver, the debut of Starz's American Gods adaptation, and documentaries on subjects from the Grateful Dead to Black Lives..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Real Austin Stories

Austin's Exploding Documentary Scene

"...Clockwise from left: Ellen Spiro, Kyle Henry, Richard Lewis,..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Going the Distance

"...Haile Gebreslassie Ten thousand meters is a pretty long..."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature by Lee Nichols

Neighborhood Watch

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Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Documentary Craft

Hector Galán: The Texas Documentary Tour

"...and inspiring Texan has created some of the best documentaries around. Starting with 1978's Disco Discrimination -- which focused..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Real Deal

The Texas Documentary Tour

"...curated by Paul Stekler, the award-winning producer of such documentaries as those instant PBS classics, Eyes on the Prize..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Wasn't There

"...Nick Broomfield A few days into my quest for..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Tackling Texas Truisms

Filmmaker Don Howard and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...photograph byMarlene Hanlin Local documentary filmmaker Don Howard doesn't..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...photograph by John Anderson ALL THE RAGE..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Austin Film Society Announces 2016 Grants

Program gives much-needed funds to Texas filmmakers

"...FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES..."

Aug. 29, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Indie Shorts on Display

The Territory Begins New Season

"...and video shorts from around the world. Featured are documentaries, short narratives, animation, digital, and experimental works. A total..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Screens Feature

AFS Invites You to a Sundance at Pioneer Farms

Festival brings drive-in screenings plus special streaming panels

"...five Sundance titles – three narrative features and two documentaries – across four nights (Jan. 28-Feb. 1), all from..."

Jan. 7, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Films Without Borders

Cine Las Americas

"...(l-r) Lara Gocer, Sandra Guardado, René Renteria, Celeste Serna..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Festival of Personal Journeys

"...Luminarias..."

April 16, 1999 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Video Box Sets

"...2001: A Space Odyssey..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Cruise Central

"...Speed Levitch (l) in The Cruise. In digerati circles,..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cowboys and Controversy

Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...photograph by Todd V. Wolfson Austin filmmaker Kyle Henry's..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Arts Afire

On the Small Screen: American Visions

"...vaguely "educational," utilitarian one so often associated with PBS documentaries; it seems good for you. After all, unless you're..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Cine Las Americas Schedule

"...short films make up this program, which includes narratives, documentaries, and animated shorts. (MYEC, 2pm)..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...I. There are no Westerns, animation, socially responsible dramas, documentaries, or Jean Harlow films; no Hitchcock or Hepburn and..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

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March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

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April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Carl Franklin; with Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, William..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...The clawed toe of Godzilla has finally set down..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

The Primary Source

"...Carol Fran photograph by T.O. Petitt..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Interview With Filmmaker Errol Morris

"...One of the most striking moments in Errol Morris'..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Jason Silverman

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