Kickstart Your Weekend: The American Genre Film Archive

Protecting movies, one frame at a time

"...Film preservation can't just be about saving the classics. There's..."

May 30, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

National Film Registry Welcomes 'El Mariachi'

Rodriguez's debut joins Bambi, Hannibal Lecter, and Forrest Gump

"...a bar." In this case, it's Robert Rodriguez's breakthrough film El Mariachi, released in 1993. It's been named by..."

Dec. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Lost Silent Film Is Found

Daughter of the Dawn starred Quanah Parker's kids

"...This Sunday, the Austin Film Society, the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Screens Post by R.U. Steinberg

Film Flam

Paul Stekler named Mentor of the Year, and other film news

"...• Paul Stekler, chairman of UT’s Department of Radio-Television-Film, has been named as the 2014 Mentor of the..."

May 5, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Now & Forever

New Orleans institution riles up the Paramount Friday

"...The mother of all New Orleans’ brass tacks, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, celebrated its half-century anniversary in 2011...."

Feb. 20, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pearls on Film

Home Movie Day takes personal memories, preservation to the public

"...are old cardboard boxes filled with stacks of family films, which they get to view with the rest of..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

ATX Film News: What Kat Candler Did Next

Fear the Walking Dead returns, The Son sets, and more

"...What Kat Candler did next: Ever since the filmmaker, who has helped define Austin movies over the last..."

May 10, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

UT's Radio-TV-Film Program Hits the Half-Century Mark

Department celebrates with student showcase screening

"...Fifty years ago, the University of Texas launched a Radio-Television-Film program that has grown to be one of the..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Caitlin Moore

ATX Film News: Good News for Texas’ Film and Game Incentives

"...Industry Incentive Program, better (if incorrectly) known as the film incentives. The program – which actually covers TV, film,..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...at the beginning, horror at the end: After SXSW Film (March 8-17) announced that Jordan Peele's eagerly awaited doppelganger..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: A Tuba to Cuba

Preservation Jazz Hall Band doc is filled with life and joy

"...Tuba to Cuba might not even have been the film itself. Afterward, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band suddenly appeared..."

March 15, 2018 Screens Post by Michael King

2016 Texas Film Awards

"...Butthead creator Mike Judge returned to emcee the Austin Film Society’s Texas Film Awards on Thursday, March 10. It..."

March 11, 2016 Photo Gallery

American Genre Film Archive Expands

Local film preservationists add Severin, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome

"...sleaze! Viva exploitation! Viva arthouse weirdness! Austin's American Genre Film Archive has announced that it will be working with..."

Jan. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film: The Whole Enchilada

Red-hot and really long list of all the titles to date

"...teased some of the highlights of the just-announced SXSW Film 2011 lineup – and they're keeping mum still on..."

Feb. 2, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...Live at Preservation Hall: A Louisiana Fairytale24 Beats Per Second D: Danny..."

March 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Michael King

Noir City Film Festival Redefines the All-American Genre

Black, white, and red all over

"...Eddie Muller wrote Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir. Bringing a more populist approach to the study..."

May 17, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

How the American Genre Film Archive Is Saving Movies One Reel at a Time

Austin nonprofit preserves cinema’s underseen and underappreciated

"...never forget your first time seeing the American Genre Film Archive. Sebastian del Castillo was a food runner at..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Slash/Back

Indigenous alien invasion horror-comedy is an icy blast

"...Writers like Stephen Graham Jones and filmmakers like Jeff Barnaby have rooted their stories in their..."

March 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Matthew Monagle

A Peek Into One Boutique's Two Decades of Preservation

AFS Essential Cinema: Selections From Milestone Films

"...entities with personalities and not just invisible behemoths peddling film products to make a buck?..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Animalis Fabula Film Festival Celebrates and Worries About Our Relationship With Animals

Check out some creature features this weekend

"...is expanding with the in-person debut of Animalis Fabula Film Festival, a selection of diverse films about or including..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Screens Feature by Adrienne Hunter

SXSW Film Review: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Jeffery Robinson's captivating lecture on America's shared legacy

"...As the film’s screenwriter and presenter Jeffery Robinson notes, the best educations..."

March 24, 2021 Screens Post by Michael King

SXSW Film Review: Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story

Celebrating 50 years of Big Easy music and culture

"...Longtime festival producer Quint Davis (executive producer of the film with Jimmy Buffett) provides contextual commentary, and film directors..."

March 17, 2022 Screens Post by Michael King

SXSW Film Review: 'Seeds of Time'

A complex subject yields a compelling documentary

"...climate change is not the sexiest topic for a filmmaker to pursue, yet Sandy McLeod succeeds in turning the..."

March 13, 2014 SXSW Post by Amy Smith

SXSW 2013 Film Reviews: 'Fuck for Forest'

Berliners using pornography for a nobler cause

"...Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak's Fuck for Forest focuses on a Berlin..."

March 15, 2013 Screens Feature by Audra Schroeder

Indie Meme Film Festival Review: Abu

Arshad Khan questions family links and the migrant experience

"...Abu, which means father in Urdu, is what filmmaker Arshad Khan called his own father. In the carefully..."

April 23, 2018 Screens Post by Tinu Thomas

SXSW Film Review: Frame by Frame

Powerful doc about the vitalness of photojournalists

"...by injustice. Deftly employing cinema vérité, the beautifully shot film – rife with the sounds, faces, and scenery of..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

The Big Sleep

"...at press time. Discovered and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, this is the original pre-release version..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hugo

Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.

"...of his most atypical movies – an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Out of the Dustbin, Onto the Web

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image launches a new preservation initiative

"...Eastside, some 50 people listened while Caroline Frick – film archivist, UT assistant professor, and founder of the Texas..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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