Meet the New French Cinema Week Filmmakers: Karim Moussaou
Karim Moussaoui’s first feature, UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN, tells a series of stories that take place in his home country of Algeria. We asked Karim three questions about his films’ strong relationships to place. UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN premieres Saturday, April 28th at 7PM at the AFS Cinema. Austin Film Society: Describe how the identity […]
The Critics Agree: OH LUCY! is “Nothing Less Than Transfixing”
The comedy/drama OH LUCY! opens this weekend at the AFS Cinema for a limited run. Atsuko Hirayanagi’s film has delighted audiences from Tokyo to Hollywood, and actress Shinobu Terajima is a delight as a middle-aged woman who pursues her dream of love across the vast Pacific Ocean. With Josh Hartnett as the apple of her eye […]
Meet the New French Cinema Week Filmmakers: Composer Julie Roué
April 25th through 29th is the 4th Annual 2018 New French Cinema Weekend. Join us at the AFS Cinema to enjoy a diverse and provocative line-up of award-winning French language films. To celebrate the fourth year of the showcase, we interviewed a few of our participating filmmakers and artists. Julie Roué, composer for Léonor Serraille’s […]
Meet the New French Cinema Week Filmmakers: Xavier Legrand
April 25th through 29th is the 4th Annual 2018 New French Cinema Weekend. Join us at the AFS Cinema to enjoy a diverse and provocative line-up of award-winning French language films. Below, Xavier Legrand, director and winner of the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, discusses the story and casting CUSTODY […]
“Intense, Mesmerizing & Heartbreaking,” DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN? Opens this Friday
“Human beings have a need to know: who we are, where we came from – essentially, what happened. We keep records, take photographs, tell stories, and build memorials. We try to keep track of our history. But sometimes there are missing pages. And sometimes there’s darkness.” Danielle White, Austin Chronicle As you may have heard, […]
Jane Fonda’s BARBARELLA: Performing Future Woman
BARBARELLA plays at the AFS Cinema for select shows from 4/20-4/23. Tickets are available now. BARBARELLA (1968) is often lumped in with the soft-pornographic, MAD MEN-era brand of sexist iconography. It’s erotic imagination is as unsophisticated as an ad for a manly fragrance: if only all beautiful women were as chill as Barbarella, life would […]
New Desplechin Alert: ISMAEL’S GHOSTS Opens This Friday at AFS Cinema
Anytime one of the lions of world cinema makes a new movie it is an event. Writer-director Arnaud Desplechin certainly falls into this category. As his classic works MY GOLDEN DAYS, KINGS & QUEEN and A CHRISTMAS TALE demonstrate, Desplechin is never shy about following his own north star wherever it may take him – […]
“Gorgeous… Sprawling… Brutal… Majestic…” What Critics Are Saying About SWEET COUNTRY, Opening This Weekend
With a 94% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and prizes from the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, the new Australian historical drama SWEET COUNTRY has very much earned its place on the big screen this weekend at AFS Cinema. Here are just a few of the rave reviews: “A bleak story presented with great […]
Attn. Ôshima Gang: Rare Nagisa Ôshima Films Now Playing at AFS Cinema
Our FORBIDDEN COLORS: THE TRANSGRESSIONS OF NAGISA ÔSHIMA series is now playing at the AFS Cinema. Now is your chance to see the films of one of the 20th Century’s great cinema provocateurs on the big screen and (except for one digital and one 16mm) on 35mm film. From his earliest films (CRUEL STORY OF […]
Watch This: Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater in conversation at the 2018 Texas Film Awards
It’s not every day that you get to listen to a couple of the greatest filmmakers of a generation just talk. But that’s the magic of the Texas Film Awards, which took place on March 8th, 2018, where audiences are treated to the kind of star-studded glamour and magical movie moments rarely witnessed outside of […]
Edify Yourself! Original Mimeographed Notes for all Films in the CinemaTexas Rewind Series Here
As you might know by now if you’ve been following AFS, the CinemaTexas Rewind series runs from March 22 through April 22 at the AFS Cinema. Full details are here. Part of the charm of the original ’70s and ’80s CinemaTexas film screenings at the University Of Texas was the mimeographed notes, written by students […]
Watch This: The Cramps Live & Untamed in 1979! More this Weekend!
From Friday, March 23 through Sunday March 25, the AFS Cinema will welcome Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers for a trio of screenings of their work. Starting in the mid ’70s they ran a public access show in New York called GoNightclubbing! and they did just that, capturing hundreds of hours from the fertile Downtown […]
