I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't

Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet

"...genre today – has mined in his internationally acclaimed films. In Nobody's Business (1996), Berliner ostensibly turned his lens..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Moving Violation

Classic sexploitation films shake things up at the Alamo

"...By donning their school uniform and claiming they were educational. Any possible suggestion of titillation in Child Bride is..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Queering Puts a New Spin on the Coming Out Story

Leticia De Bortoli's web series depicts two generations of LGBTQ-ness

"...your bathroom mirror while your friend demonstrates – for educational purposes, of course – the finer art of oral..."

March 14, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Your Weekend in Film

Ingrid Goes West, Logan Lucky open in Austin

"...No FOMO: We've got the rundown on which new films are worth watching, including a social media satire and..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...director Oren Shai genre-hops – from black-and-white Reefer Madness-inspired educational films to color-saturated Lynchian scenes – to tell the..."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Television Takes the Stage

Information artists How + Why promise that their show No Dead Air will "appeal to your demographic."

"...present media manipulation videos. Also featured are vintage 16mm educational films from local collector Chad A, live music, and..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Connor

Letters at 3AM: February 1914

Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought

"...tacked on through title cards. (By 1919, audiences wanted films to begin, have a middle, and end; in 1914,..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

The Amusement Park

Romero's lost film is more than a curio

"...and the Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation in 1973 to make an educational film about the perils of society ignoring the old,..."

June 4, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...ongoing commitment to underserved parts of our community and educational excellence...."

May 3, 2002 Column

The Last Picture Show

Untimely Death of the Texas Union Film Program

"...caption: "Union devil kills film." Another sign called for "Films not burgers!" - in reference to what some describe..."

Jan. 23, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole

Neighborhood Watch

"...a place and talking with the people." The two films she'll screen at the Alamo on Wednesday, August 18,..."

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

Plays Well With Others

How Creative Commons is redefining copyright law and what it means for artistic collaboration across the Internet.

"...site about the civil rights movement, borrowing images and films from museum collections across the country to complement the..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

Silo

Farming accident drama is more than just a long PSA

"...and urban America. So if Silo feels like an educational drama, that's because it is and with good reason..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...The more literal-minded God’s Not Dead franchise of faith-based films, however, appears to have no interest in a dialogue..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Carbon Nation

Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.

"...has more in common with design of a kids’ educational TV show, and although the information seems sometimes chaotic...."

Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Land of Plenty Time

The fifth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Austin Studios and honors actors, directors, screenwriters, filmmakers, and films from, influenced by, or inspired by Texas. Smith points..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Radio

The mentally handicapped again are used as vehicles for our own best intentions.

"...quite seriously suggests, have been entirely ignored by the educational community hitherto. Whether this is true I cannot say...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Best of the A/v Geeks III

"...Directed by: Various. This new program of old 16mm educational film strips and training films is back by popular..."

April 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Best of the AV Geeks

"...AV Geeks finds wonders galore in those old 16mm educational film strips and training films. Skip Elsheimer, the founding..."

April 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation '98

"...gorge- elevating raunch, carnage, and scatology. Some of the films, like Miles Thompson's crude paean to blonde bimbohood, Hut..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Something Weird This Way Comes

Alamo Drafthouse pays tribute to Mike Vraney

"...copy of Re/Search's bible of the bizarre, Incredibly Strange Films, for his 18th birthday. He said, "I was so..."

March 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Let Your Love Light Shine

"...artists. He has become a resident fixture in the films of Spike Lee and the Coen brothers. He has..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Real Deal

The Texas Documentary Tour

"...cold ones while enjoying some of the best documentary films around and fielding volleys of Q's to the filmmaker's..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Silent Days and Nights

Discovering Live Cinema... Again

"...movies had survived anyway. Such a small percentage of films hardly seemed to merit more than occasional homages by..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

The People’s Joker

Trans coming-of-age story filtered through superhero homage

"...The purpose of fan films is to play in someone else’s sandbox. They’re about..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Won't Back Down

Two mad-as-hell mamas take back their public school from the bureaucrats and unions that seemingly enforce the status quo.

"...Won’t Back Down advances the argument for solving the educational quagmire on a case-by-case basis and avoids addressing the..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harry Ransom Heads to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

HRC brings former ILM head Thomas G. Smith to Austin

"...that he had a sterling career making around 80 educational movies for Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, PBS and more...."

April 9, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Reclaiming Texas History, One Home Movie at a Time

The missionary zeal of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

"...Department of Public Safety that morning; the canisters held films from the Fifties and Sixties trumpeting the importance of..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

For the Bible Tells Me So

Various men and women of the cloth provide a systematic dismantling of the idea that the Bible condemns homosexuality.

"...and perhaps due to this we have a mock educational cartoon (by Austin’s Powerhouse Animation Studios) about the “choice”..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

No Reservations

While No Reservations is no Big Night, it's surprisingly winsome in parts, by virtue of Catherine Zeta-Jones' performance, and a romantic fable that lingers on the palette of the mind's eye.

"...part. Hollywood is and forever has been rife with films about obsessive Americans unraveling for the better in the..."

July 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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