Augustine Frizzell gives us the real-life NEVER GOIN’ BACK tour of Garland, Texas
In Augustine Frizzell’s exuberant comedy NEVER GOIN’ BACK, two teenage girls, high school drop outs, live on their own, waitress at the local pancake house, and scheme about putting together enough cash to make rent, party, and take a spontaneous trip to the beach, if they don’t get fired first. While the ill-advised adventures of […]
Meet the Programmer: Stacy Brick of AFS’s Sunday School Series
Each month, AFS presents Sunday School, a program of family-friendly films that introduce the next generation of filmgoers to cinema’s greatest hits and newest discoveries. The mastermind behind the series is guest programmer (and parent of two) Stacy Brick. We had the chance to speak with Stacy about the inspirations for the series and her […]
Censorship & Its Discontents: Hollywood’s Amazing Pre-Code Era
Imagine it’s 1930 and you’re a movie producer ready to unveil your latest film to theaters across the country. Maybe there are a few instances of light profanity or debatable obscenity. Maybe you are intrigued by the life of gangsters and want to let one of them succeed for once. Or maybe you have a […]
Bill Gunn’s ‘Holy Grail of Film’ PERSONAL PROBLEMS Presented in 2 Parts
A lost treasure of Bill Gunn’s work, PERSONAL PROBLEMS is a TV movie that never aired. Shot on the defunct ¾ inch U-Matic videotape, Kino unearthed and restored this film in all its hazy digital glory. Despite the drawbacks and imperfections of the format, the sentiment of the film is emotionally stunning. Each aspect of […]
Interview with HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD Director
In the new documentary HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD the idea of media manipulation is brought to a head as we explore Joseph Goebbels’ career as the head of producing and distributing Nazi propaganda films during World War II. The documentary, coming to the AFS Cinema on July 15th, offers an objective view on the films’ strategic focus […]
The year’s best mystery thriller is also a documentary: THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS opens this Friday, July 13, at AFS Cinema. This month: AFS members receive a $2 discount on New Releases. Identical triplets separated at birth are miraculously reunited one-by-one as adults. That initial premise alone could compose a fascinating documentary – but what THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS unearths about these triplets’ past is so […]
Happy Birthday, SLACKER! Read the 10th Anniversary Program from July 2001
Richard Linklater’s SLACKER, released nationally on July 5, 1991, has left a lasting impression on the independent filmmaking world and Austin’s own film scene. Back in July 2001, AFS celebrated our Founder and Artistic Director’s groundbreaking film with a ten year reunion at the Paramount Theatre. Cast, crew, and just about everyone who lived in […]
“I Don’t Throw Bombs, I Make Films.” – Fassbinder’s Bitter Tears
There are some pretty prolific filmmakers out there in the world, but none have been as relentlessly productive as the perversely driven Rainer Werner Fassbinder, whose work is being celebrated this summer at the AFS Cinema. The retrospective series “The Bitter Tears Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder” runs through July and the newly rediscovered and restored […]
10 Must-See Westerns That Influenced DAMSEL
The Zellner Brothers’ newest film, DAMSEL, opens today at AFS Cinema. This re-invention of the western genre shows off some of their trademarks—it’s unpredictable, contains a unique brand of humanism, and features their off-kilter sense of humor. We asked David and Nathan Zellner to share their shortlist of westerns that influenced their take on the […]
Watch this: Can a Human and a Robot Share an Inside Joke? IBM’s Top Minds Join Us for Science on Screen
One of the more thought-provoking and intelligent science fiction films of recent times, MARJORIE PRIME, screens this Sunday, July 1. Veteran actress Lois Smith stars as Marjorie, an elderly woman with a failing memory whose family has enlisted a simulacrum of her late husband (Jon Hamm) to keep her company. The film is a compelling exploration […]
“Looking For the Truth,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Porn-Adjacent” Epic, Boogie Nights
BOOGIE NIGHTS screens in 35mm at the AFS Cinema starting Saturday June 30th. Tickets and more info here. The opening shot of BOOGIE NIGHTS plunges you into the streets of late seventies California, lit up with neon-psychedelic billboards, pulsing with the sounds of Motown and disco. As well as the mind of Paul Thomas Anderson, […]
The Zellner Brothers’ DAMSEL Opens This Week. Here’s What the Critics (and Robert Pattinson) are Saying
Star Mia Wasikowska and writer-director-costar David Zellner in DAMSEL Visit the AFS Cinema Thursday, June 28th for a special premiere screening of DAMSEL. Austin-based writer-directors David and Nathan Zellner will join us for a special screening with a Q&A and a special post-screening DJ Set by The Octopus Project. The film opens for a […]
