War Stories

Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro collaborate to document one wounded soldier's transformation into 'anti-warrior'

"...modern daytime TV talk show, would make an anti-war film. This war, that president, that bunch of rubber-stamping idiots..."

March 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Thursday Picks

"..."They were reopening the refurbished Royal Festival Hall last year with a performance by 1,500 amateur..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Changes in the Weather

As Burnt Orange cools down, UTFI heats up

"...worked toward was coming true. He'd made a real film, the kind with a cast and crew he couldn't..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Page Two: The Moment Belongs to the Music

John Sayles' 'Honeydripper' takes flight

"...the magic. But the music is what causes a film to take flight, becoming greater than itself...."

Jan. 18, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Biography of Burnt Orange

"...What happened: Premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, purchased by Sony, and released in..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature

Bella

This two-person character study features lovely performances that are models of restraint in what otherwise might have been a soppy melodrama.

"...Landry and Ramon Rodriguez. Bella is, indeed, a beautiful film. The bustling, cab-crowded thoroughfares of New York City have..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Family Style

Fatherhood gives Bella director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde new insight

"...He's still nurturing that first child, the film Bella, but he also admits to knowing a lot..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Diary of the Undead

"...Hopping from one film festival to another is certainly the way to live..."

Sept. 22, 2007 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Personalizing the Mythic

How a former president's understated decency and the hectic birth of rock & roll electrified Toronto screens

"...The Toronto International Film Festival is simply a fantastic event, easily..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Seven Days in Heaven and Hell

Getting a white-knuckled grip on the third annual Fantastic Fest

"...most gonzo, misunderstood loony villain/hero figures ever committed to film." 2) Never Belongs to Me..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fly the Friendly Skies

"...wrote that I believed I had been attending the Toronto Film Festival for around 12 years. Well now, in..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund grant winners, plus The Unforeseen, Bella, and 'Chickenfüt'

"...of what's upcoming and cool in the Texas independent film scene, take a look at the filmmakers snagging grants..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Off to the Races

"...in order to head out of town to the Toronto International Film Festival...."

Sept. 5, 2007 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film News

Forgiveness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and more

"...Kotowski is an interesting newish face in the Austin film scene, shooting his first fiction feature, Forgiveness, around Austin...."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Happenings

May 10-16

"...X. Peled's sweatshop doc won Best Documentary at the Toronto Film Festival and has a limited screening in Austin...."

May 11, 2007 News Feature

Film News

Stars litter the Austin landscape, the real Oprah Effect, and other nuggets of film info

"...star power behind Fireflies in the Garden, which is filming now in the Bastrop area and previously around the..."

April 13, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Like Out of a Movie

The legend of Alejandro Gomez Monteverde

"...The University of Texas film grad's feature Bella marks a culmination of that yearning...."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Taking the 'Us' out of It

Michael Tucker hears the voices calling him back to the war in Iraq

"...prisoners. Tucker spoke to us about Yunis and his film, which screens at SXSW Film 07...."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Champion of the World Cinema

Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam

"...with Chale Nafus, director of programming for the Austin Film Society, and I was disheartened to find out he..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Death of a President

More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.

"...a lot of hype and hysteria surrounding this British film, because one of its plot points is the fictional..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Image Formed

Previewing the 12th Austin Film Festival

"...full-time teachers could manage, they never conceived that this film, a mockumentary-style comedy about public high school teachers, would..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

God Bless This Mess

The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Doug Block's '51 Birch Street'

"...Admission: www.austinfilm.org..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...take a basic point-and-shoot camera, load it with black-and-white film, and go outside their boxes and don't be afraid..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column

Film News

Ninja-pirate-supermodels, the Austin Polish Film Festival, and zombies (of course)

"...Central Texas' biggest independent film success story of the year? How about All the..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

No Limits

Austin at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...When the People's Choice votes at this year's Toronto International Film Festival were tallied, University of Texas graduate..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unbelievably Incredible

Fantastic Fest II is for real

"...crap American molar-rapers), and I'm screening a handful of films slated for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's latest spawn, the second..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film News

Pull the film loop tighter; plus, how to give Harry Knowles a heart attack

"...Pulling the film loop tighter The catch phrase for the Texas film..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

It's dry as a bone out there, but this verdant pasture of industry info and celebrity gossip is no mirage

"...in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto, a spokesperson for 20th Century Fox said. Whether the..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

A Kinder, Gentler Filmmaker

Jeffrey Travis' surprising success

"...Picture your average independent filmmaker: recent film school graduate or (more likely) dropout, frayed..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Thursday

"...of pies. He's composed symphonies, string quartets, operas, and film scores. The Golden Arm Trio is a revolving cast..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

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