MARY SHELLEY Opens For A Limited Engagement This Weekend at AFS Cinema
The new film MARY SHELLEY begins a limited run at the AFS Cinema on Friday, June 22. Click here for tickets and more info. Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was raised by her father, William Godwin, a radical philosopher and one of the earliest proponents of modern anarchism. Mary’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote a groundbreaking book […]
New Chef Doc THE QUEST OF ALAIN DUCASSE Opens This Friday at AFS Cinema
THE QUEST OF ALAIN DUCASSE opens on Friday June 22 at the AFS Cinema. Tickets on sale now. With 23 restaurants across the globe and now 18 Michelin stars under his belt, master chef and restaurateur Alain Ducasse is showing no signs of stopping in his quest to bring artful cuisine to the world. In […]
Mondo Belmondo: From New Wave Darling to France’s Greatest Action Star
“I don’t know what they mean” was Jean-Paul Belmondo’s response to being touted as the face of the French New Wave after his turn in Godard’s BREATHLESS. Despite his confusion about this unexpected ascendancy to the top rank of the art-house star-system, Belmondo would go on to achieve worldwide fame among the smart set before […]
AFS Viewfinders Podcast: A Dialogue With Master Film Programmer Kier-la Janisse
Austin Film Society Lead Programmer Lars Nilsen here, using the first person singular for once in introducing a pretty remarkable dialogue we recorded a few weeks ago with programmer-author-editor-publisher-educator Kier-la Janisse. Kier-la has done an awful lot in all of these arenas, from creating the Cinemuerte Film Festival, programming for Alamo Drafthouse during its most […]
“Vivid, Evocative & Surreal” New Film SUMMER 1993 Opens This Friday at AFS Cinema
SUMMER 1993 opens on Friday June 15 at the AFS Cinema. Tickets on sale now. Spanish writer/director Carla Simón tells her own story in the dreamlike new film SUMMER 1993. In the film, we follow Frida, a precocious and observant six-year-old whose life is dramatically changed after the death of her parents. Frida and her […]
Newly Restored Straub-Huillet Masterpiece Starts Sunday
The new restoration of the unconventional and austere music biopic by Jean-Marie Straub & Daniéle Huillet, THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH, plays this Sunday and the following Tuesday at the AFS Cinema. Straub & Huillet take slow cinema to a new level with the film, which places the viewer into the same tempo of […]
Acclaimed ‘Dark Nail Biter’ BEAST Opens Today at AFS Cinema
It’s true. Most scary movies just aren’t that scary. Atmosphere is often conveyed by a bunch of well-worn cliches, and the jump-scare is relied upon to create the thrills. In the new British thriller BEAST, writer-director Michael Pearce avoids these superficial pitfalls and instead delivers a creepy work of real tension and fresh situations. It’s […]
The Noir Canon Series, This June at AFS
For the second year, the AFS Cinema brings a summertime dose of shadowy moral ambiguity and proto-existential dread to movie screens with our Noir Canon series. These are the foundational, quintessential works of Film Noir, and before the first screening of each title, AFS Lead Programmer Lars Nilsen will introduce the work and explain some […]
Watch This: Jay Duplass visits AFS Cinema for OUTSIDE IN, Now Playing at AFS Cinema
A few weeks ago, our friend Jay Duplass stopped by the cinema for a special sneak preview of his latest film OUTSIDE IN, which he co-wrote with Director Lynn Shelton, and also co-stars in with Edie Falco. He was happy to answer some audience questions about his creative process. Watch the interview below then join […]
Noir City Starts Tonight at the Ritz, Noir Canon continues in June at AFS
Carole Landis and Victor Mature in I WAKE UP SCREAMING (aka THE HOT SPOT) The Czar of Noir, Eddie Muller, legendary writer, scholar and preservationist of Film Noir culture is in Austin this weekend to present Noir City Austin 2018, a special weekend of Noir classics and restorations at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz. Grouped into […]
The Doc Days Festival Is Here: Interview with THE SENTENCE Filmmaker Rudy Valdez
AFS’ inaugural documentary film festival Doc Days starts tonight, Thursday, May 10 at the AFS Cinema. Doc Days is a long weekend festival of brand-new documentary films with visiting filmmakers from the US and abroad. In addition to screening our favorite new documentaries from the festival circuit, the weekend will include events, parties, discussions, and […]
Like Superhero Movies? So Do We: RBG Opens This Thursday at AFS Cinema
If you’re wondering why everyone is talking about the new documentary RBG, it’s probably because Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is every bit the superhero that the film asserts, and all of us who value civility, scholarship and good judgment love Ginsburg, who has embodied these traits so well for so long. But directors Betsy West […]
