2000 Seen by – (Program Three)

"...seven short films by international (mostly white, male, European) filmmakers who were each given funding to make hourish-long movies..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Two Thousand Seen by - (Part One)

"...seven short films by international (mostly white, male, European) filmmakers who were each given funding to make hourish-long movies..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2000 Seen by – (Part Two)

"...seven short films by international (mostly white, male, European) filmmakers who were each given funding to make hourish-long movies..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chasing the Dream

"...and trampling him into redneck tartar. And when the filmmakers turn their cameras on their subjects (including former world..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Thirty-Five Up

"...project in the first place and at times, the filmmakers' dogged pursuit of their point turns a big suspicious..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Hearts of Darkness

"...creation of their film about the Vietnam war, the filmmakers, especially Coppola, took a journey into the jungle, and..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Fantasia Review: The Clapboard Jungle

Live shots from the indie filmmaking trenches

"...The longer you spend in film journalism, the more filmmakers you get to know, and the more you know..."

Aug. 26, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sister Aimee

A slightly true story of America's first megapastor on the run

"...with good choices about things that were under the filmmakers’ control...."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Science Fair

The future is as bright as these charming science kids

"...geekery is alive and well in a new generation. Filmmakers Costantini and Foster previously worked together on the first..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners

Recipients show strength and diversity of Texas filmmakers

"...The biggest challenge facing first time and independent filmmakers is often finance, and that’s just one barrier to..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...working under the Reich? What were the fates of filmmakers who did not flee fast enough, like director Georg..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pete's Dragon

Old Disney musical is remade as a new children's classic

"...(Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) from the ranks of indie filmmakers to head up the remake of the studio’s 1977..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

The epic story of three kids inspired by Spielberg's adventure tale

"...inspirational. The Eighties-era pre-production footage of these pint-sized DIY-or-die filmmakers and the gnarly and impressively dangerous effects work are..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ones to Watch

A new year, a new batch of filmmakers

"...here are a small few of the most promising filmmakers with local ties that you'll see riding the newest..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Samba

The latest from the directors of the French hit The Intouchables

"...French filmmakers Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano scored an international hit..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1

Katniss Everdeen goes from Hunger Games victor to emblem of the revolution

"...tears, and that’s five minutes freed up, easy-peasy.) But filmmakers were wise to hang Part I’s climax on a..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

AFS Grants Announced

$115,000 awarded to filmmakers

"...Society is at it again: giving away money to filmmakers and their projects. The 2014 recipients of AFS Grants..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

West of Memphis

Eighteen years of wrongful imprisonment and four documentaries still don't put to rest the trials of the West Memphis Three.

"...case itself. In short, The Lord of The Rings filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh got involved after watching..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Sun Sets on the Big 'Dance

Sundance ends with acquisitions and accolades for Austin filmmakers

"...short films – in addition to movies by Austin-based filmmakers that were shot elsewhere, films that benefited from Austin..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Argo

Ben Affleck directs this entertaining thriller about an unbelievable-but-true mission to extricate American hostages from Iran in 1980.

"...and their film representations; the resemblances again reveal the filmmakers’ attention to detail, although the display seems more self-congratulatory..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Samsara

The director of Baraka returns with this wordless tone poem filled with stunning images and scant meanings.

"...in the cycles of life. Maybe that’s what the filmmakers want us to understand after watching Samsara, a wordless..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shark Night 3D

These sharks are as bland as their comely victims.

"...itself to an exercise in “When Nature Attacks,” the filmmakers take a hard, ugly turn into torture-porn territory. Initially,..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn rides again in this Coen brothers' remake of the Western classic.

"...Granger) has some handsome sequences but overall lacks these filmmakers’ usually precise eye. The scenes filmed within the historic..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It's Kind of a Funny Story

When a 15-year-old overachiever checks himself into a mental ward, he learns to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad.

"...of whatever’s making the Internet rounds that minute – filmmakers Boden and Fleck (Half Nelson, Sugar) take the opposite..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cyrus

John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei co-star in this Duplass brothers' comedy about a young man's obsessive attachment to his mother.

"...from their germinal Austin filmmaking roots into full-blown Hollywood filmmakers is complete – even though their new comedy will..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

This documentary is a softball, entirely sympathetic, and wickedly funny portrait of the artist at an advancing age.

"...plastic surgery – rightly, it turns out, as the filmmakers demonstrate in a devastating montage of male comics rough-handling..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Kevin Smith finds a new soulmate in actor Seth Rogen, who stars in this movie that blends Smith's telltale comedic raunch with large dollops of sweetness.

"...and Miri draft a fun little team of makeshift filmmakers and actors to shoot their movie. This creation of..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miracle at St. Anna

Spike Lee fights the good fight but loses the battle in his bloated and muddled World War II epic that pays tribute to the Army's Buffalo Soldiers.

"...and all the various modes of cinematic expression, American filmmakers have always made movies the best way they know..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The new version of this Jules Verne classic provides gentle fun, but without the 3-D visual effects "comin' right at ya," this journey's center will not hold.

"...can lure us away from our home-entertainment consoles), the filmmakers have paid little attention to character development or the..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shutter

Shutter is a shabby American remake of a Thai movie about a couple who sees mysterious images in photographs.

"...the hinge. In the past two decades, very few filmmakers outside of Asia have been able to overwhelm audiences..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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