Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**cker

Inside the creativity and fury of the artist provocateur

"...art. A painter and performance artist who also made films, photos, and installations, wrote books, played avant-punk music, and..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ride Your Wave

Delightful and touching surfing anime melds grief and fantasy

"...adorable meet-cute brings them together, and they spend the summer on and off the beach in a first love..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Struggling to Get by in Rome

The pure perfection and modern resonance of Bicycle Thieves lives on

"...as the history of cinema goes, there are few films as pure as Bicycle Thieves (né The Bicycle Thief,..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Tom Cruise risks life and limb in one of the best missions yet

"...science over the course of 20 years and six films, Mission: Impossible - Fallout is here to save you..."

July 27, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Not Fade Away

The evolution of the Blue Starlite Urban Drive-in

"...way they were meant to be shown all this summer ... by which we mean cinematic bliss under the..."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Nightwatch

New venue, same labor of love for Cinema East

"...very least, to commit every other Sunday evening this summer to Cinema East, Austin's savior of indie films of..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Still Working It

Actor Brian O'Halloran on the enduring appeal of Clerks

"...Aug. 4, Brian O'Halloran swaps the New York sweat-box summer for Austin's flammable conditions for a screening of the..."

July 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Larger Than Life

The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Alamo and Terms of Endearment, Texas has fostered voice-of-their-generation films like Slacker and Easy Rider, made music with State..."

March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Ciné-Varda

AFS Essential Cinema: Agnes on Agnès

"..."In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Such Great Heights

The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures

"...to save Europe was to make extravagant, romantic British films." – Michael Powell, Million Dollar Movie..."

June 11, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Zombie Girl: The Movie

This is a "making of" documentary about the 2005 filming of the zombie film Pathogen, made by then-12-year-old Austinite Emily Hagins.

"...her daughter, who can work on school holidays and summer vacation, Megan takes days off from her job to..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sundance Announces Shorts Program

Texans get the nod

"...first, Goliath, will be released on DVD from IFC Films on January 12...."

Dec. 8, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Brothers in Arms

Jeff Nichols' Southern Gothic family saga, 'Shotgun Stories'

"...lean, angular tale of revenge served hot as the summer in Arkansas. Shot in anamorphic 35mm and starring veteran..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Cool, 'Clean' Air Up North

Dispatch No. 1: Cool, 'Clean' Air Up North

"...and most prestigious film festival on this continent, featuring films from around the world. An additional treat if you're..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cool, 'Clean' Air Up North

Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival: No. 1

"...and most prestigious film festival on this continent, featuring films from around the world. An additional treat if you're..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

They See Dead People, Too

The story of a young blind woman who undergoes a corneal transplant and begins to see visions of the dead, The Eye may sound familiar to fans of The Sixth Sense, but the Pangs' film is a far more creepy affair than M. Night Shyamalan's crowd-pleaser.

"...begin catching up on all the import Asian horror films that Pedazo Chunk video specializes in, something I'd been..."

June 27, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Daddy Day Care

"...Daddy Day Care, offers a lackluster start to the summer comedy season. This film will appeal to the youngest..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Guy Thing

"...and Diana Scarwid. Into the January dumping grounds of films not quite good enough to merit a holiday release..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

"...Marie Riviere and Lisa Heredia. "Love and Morality: The Films of Eric Rohmer" is an eight-film survey of films..."

Oct. 25, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An American Rhapsody

"...similar all-or-nothing perfectionism of Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas. The two films couldn't have more dissimilar storylines -- there are no..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Urban Legends: Final Cut

"...supposedly jump-started by Wes Craven's Scream four years ago, films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

On the Edge of the Edge

John Cassavetes

"...begins a new series of screenings devoted to the films of John Cassavetes, we asked "Letters at 3AM" columnist..."

Jan. 23, 1998 Screens Feature by Michael Ventura

Control Freaks

Film Top Tens

"...the Austin Chronicle's cumulative tally of the Top Ten Films of 1997...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Operation Condor

"...of John Woo's Hard-Boiled. The difference between Woo (this summer's Face/Off) and Chan, of course, resides in the body..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Graduate

"...The Graduate opened in theatres, a number of American films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, and..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Land of 1,000 Dances

Sundance Film Festival 1997

"...the first to report a new trend in independent films: lawn-troll snatching. Witnessed in at least four festival films,..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Stunt Man

William Castle's Gimmick Flicks Live Again!

"...Forum sponsored a two-week festival entitled "Gimmick-o-Rama," celebrating the films of the 1950s that featured technical and publicity innovations..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Alison Macor

Flora and Son

Joseph Gordon-Levitt steals the show in this Irish musical drama

"...since then, Gordon-Levitt has proven a reliable presence in films like Mysterious Skin, Brick, (500) Days of Summer, 50/50,..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In the Flesh: Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell Leads the Reappraisal of Porn

The archivist sees erotica as a vital chapter in the history of queer liberation

"...there's porn everywhere.' But finally starting to see these films as art and cinema really flipped a switch in..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Screens Feature by James Scott

Oasis Knebworth 1996

Brilliant documentary on the gigs that defined Britpop

"...Knebworth 1996 feels like a transatlantic cousin to Questlove's Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not..."

May 13, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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