Jonathan Rosenbaum on BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: Rare Print Screens 3/24 at AFS Cinema
AFS Cinema is excited to present Bernardo Bertolucci’s remarkable early film BEFORE THE REVOLUTION this Saturday, March 24th at 6:00 PM. We will be screening a rare 35mm print all the way from the Cineteca di Bologna…the chance to see this film in 35mm probably won’t happen again anytime soon, so be advised. Here’s Jonathan […]
Starting This Weekend: Films Of French Master Olivier Assayas; In Person at Select Screenings
“Movies should not be about other movies, they should be about your experience of life.” – Olivier Assayas Nest week, French director Olivier Assayas joins us in-person at the AFS Cinema for a limited retrospective of his films, including the premiere of the new restoration of his 1994 classic, COLD WATER (a Janus Films release). […]
Watch This: Texas Film Awards are Around the Corner: Here are Highlights from Last Year’s Show
Shirley MacLaine accepts her Texas Film Award We’re less than a week out from this year’s Texas Film Awards. The annual event brings in actors, filmmakers, and others in the film industry to Austin to celebrate the Texas film industry. Among the special guests this year will be director Paul Thomas Anderson and actor Armie […]
Bring Me The Head Of CinemaTexas!: Notes on the Next Essential Cinema Series
This week’s Austin Chronicle presents an informative overview of AFS’ upcoming CinemaTexas Rewind series. Here’s a little bit more about CinemaTexas and the films to be screened, as well as the new book that has brought CinemaTexas back into the spotlight. From the early ‘70s through the mid ‘80s, there was an on-campus film-programming initiative at the […]
An Important Video Message From Filmmaker Bette Gordon
Director Bette Gordon is in Austin presenting her films at the AFS Cinema this weekend. We hope to see you there for the screenings of VARIETY (1983), THE DROWNING (2017), LUMINOUS MOTION (1998) and her Experimental Short Works. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A that promises to be unforgettable. You can find out […]
AFS Presents 25 Years of SXSW Film: A Retrospective Selection
John Boyega in ATTACK THE BLOCK, screening March 3 Today’s Austin Chronicle features a nice preview of the SXSW@25 program that starts at the AFS Cinema on Friday, March 2. The AFS programming team has worked with SXSW Film to choose a selection of some of the highlights from recent years of the fest. The […]
What the Critics are Saying About Abbas Kiarostami’s Final Film: 24 FRAMES
Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 FRAMES opens at the AFS Cinema on Friday, February 23. Tickets and more info here. The death of Iranian writer/director Abbas Kiarostami in 2016 robbed us of one of cinema’s great masters. Though he had lived a relatively long, and certainly productive, life, his perspective on film and on life was still […]
The Hidden Worlds of Filmmaker Bette Gordon
Sandy McLeod in Bette Gordon’s 1983 VARIETY AFS Head of Film & Creative Media Holly Herrick provides this overview of the work of Bette Gordon. Gordon will be a guest at the AFS Cinema for a series of screenings starting on Friday, February 23 with a screening of VARIETY. The series continues through Monday, February […]
Newly Restored: A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH Comes To AFS Cinema For Select Shows
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH starts on Saturday, February 17 at the AFS Cinema. This is the new 4K restoration. Buy tickets and find out more here. At the end of WWII, the US and Great Britain, having just participated in a war to vanquish the greatest evil of modern times, were at a […]
“Funny & Brutal”: What Critics are Saying About Two New Works By Romanian Auteur Radu Jude
From AFS Head of Film & Creative Media Holly Herrick The Romanian director Radu Jude popped on the radar for Austin audiences when his second feature, EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY, became a surprise favorite of Fantastic Fest in 2013. A filmmaker who works outside of traditional genre conventions to make expansive and gorgeously cinematic narratives, […]
The Anti-Commercial Odyssey of Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy
KAGERO-ZA (1981) aka HEAT SHIMMER THEATER The incorrigible Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki is well known for having been basically banned from making films at all after 1967’s explosion of bullets and butterflies BRANDED TO KILL. The stated reason from his bosses at Nikkatsu Studios was that his films “made no sense and no money.” You […]
BOMB CITY is the Austin Chronicle Pick Of The Week – Opens at AFS Cinema This Weekend
“First-time director Jameson Brooks’ BOMB CITY reads like a recipe pulled from “The Anarchist Cookbook”: Everyday items which, when assembled, create a dangerous product capable of wreaking havoc and destruction.” – Danielle White, Austin Chronicle A tragic 1997 incident that took place in Amarillo, Texas forms the backbone of an exciting new film called BOMB […]
