Watch This: Catherine Hardwicke (THIRTEEN) in conversation with Richard Linklater
Filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke is one of the many subjects in HALF THE PICTURE, screening this Sunday, October 14 at AFS Cinema. Don’t miss this special screening, including a pre-film mixer and post-screening panel. Get tickets. In order to make your work meaningful, you need to align it with who you really are – your true […]
How Do You Make Music for Giallo Films? Composer Curtis Heath Explains
For this extra special guest Viewfinders post, composer Curtis Heath (STUMPED, HELLION, 1985) offers his insights on the techniques composers used to score for giallo films. Heath will join us this Friday for a one-time-only introduction for THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, where he’ll bring in some of these very instruments and do a live […]
“Rare and Exhilarating” I AM NOT A WITCH opens Friday, October 12, at AFS Cinema
I AM NOT A WITCH opens Friday, October 12th at AFS Cinema. Get tickets here. In her BAFTA awarding-winning debut feature, Rungano Nyoni crafts a satiric feminist fairy-tale set in present-day Zambia. When 9-year old orphan Shula is accused of witchcraft, she is exiled to a witch camp run by Mr. Banda, a corrupt and […]
Robert Greene’s Passionately Ambitious Non-Fiction Film BISBEE ’17 Opens October 5 at AFS Cinema
BISBEE ’17 opens Friday, October 5, at AFS Cinema. Director Robert Greene joins us on Saturday, October 6, at 6 PM. Buy Tickets. In Robert Greene’s newest foray into hybrid documentary filmmaking, he focuses on the small mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, and its troubled history. In 1917, over 1300 striking miners were forcibly deported […]
Giallo, Ghosts, and Gore: Horror Films at AFS Cinema this October
October is here and the Halloween season is upon us. As you’re scheduling your own 31 Nights of Halloween, look no further than the AFS Cinema calendar to layer in rare theatrical screenings and more. This month, we’re presenting a variety of horror films, from a giallo series to a Japanese vampire trilogy to John […]
Watch This: Q&A from THE OLD MAN & THE GUN
Earlier this week, AFS members were treated to a Sneak Preview of THE OLD MAN & THE GUN, the newest film from AFS Grant recipient David Lowery. We were fortunate to have producers Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston join us for a special Q&A after the film, where they talked about working with the […]
Program Notes: IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY
IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY screened on September 20, 2018 as a part of our Children of Abraham/Ibrahim series. At once an ode and a requiem for Cairo, In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El-Said’s heartbreaking debut feature, is a master-class in capturing time and space. Though the Egyptian capital takes […]
KUSAMA: INFINITY, new documentary about Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama, opens Friday at AFS Cinema
KUSAMA: INFINITY opens Friday, September 28th at AFS Cinema. Get your tickets today. Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage. For decades, her work pushed boundaries that often alienated her from both her peers and those in power in […]
Meet Jim Cummings: Writer/Director/Star of THUNDER ROAD (playing 9/23)
THUNDER ROAD screens this Sunday, September 23 at AFS Cinema. Purchase tickets. In celebration of Art House Theater Day on September 23, we’re pleased to screen a film that truly embodies the spirit of independent filmmaking and was shot right here in Austin, including portions at our very own Austin Studios. THUNDER ROAD is the tragicomic […]
AFS Programmer Lars Nilsen’s 12 Must-See Films From Toronto International Film Festival 2018
From an outsider’s view, the Toronto International Film Festival may appear to be a glamorous, high-profile festival with back-to-back red carpet premieres of this year’s crop of Oscar contenders. For AFS Lead Film Programmer Lars Nilsen, the festival is a great opportunity to explore the pool of films that will someday make their way to […]
New Gilda Radner Documentary, LOVE GILDA, Opens Friday at AFS Cinema
LOVE, GILDA opens Friday, September 21st at the AFS Cinema. Tickets are on sale now. As many comedians will attest, nobody captured the hearts of the 70’s and 80’s (as well as the cultural zeitgeist) quite like Gilda Radner. She ascended through the boys club of The National Lampoon straight into stardom as the first […]
AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Michael Tully, director of DON’T LEAVE HOME, opening September 14 at AFS Cinema
DON’T LEAVE HOME opens on September 14 at AFS Cinema. Filmmaker Michael Tully and actress Anna Margaret Hollyman will be in attendance at shows during the first weekend. Get your tickets today. On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders podcast, we visit with Austin-based filmmaker Michael Tully, whose new feature film DON’T LEAVE HOME opens […]
