A CIAMBRA Director Jonas Carpignano on Being Robbed Blind By His Cast (& Being OK with It)
A remarkable new film called A CIAMBRA opens at the AFS Cinema this Friday. Produced by Martin Scorsese and directed with assurance and improvisational flair by New York-based Italian American filmmaker Jonas Carpignano (MEDITERRANEA), it takes us into the lives of some pretty rough kids who hustle and scrap in the tough Southern Italian enclave […]
Agnès Varda Wants You to Watch Her Movies (and Jacques Démy’s, Too)
Here’s AFS Head of Film & Creative Media Holly Herrick on the Agnès Varda Essential Cinema series running through February. By popular demand we have added additional FACES PLACES screenings starting Friday February 2. It is the year of Agnès (again). After completing her brilliant new documentary, FACES, PLACES, the nearly 90-year-old filmmaker seems unstoppable—premiering her […]
Best AFS Cinema Screenings of 2017 – Intern Edition
Everyone loved SUSPIRIA, of course. Here at the Austin Film Society we are blessed with some of the best interns in the business. We are proud to have a chance to work with these talented young people who not only learn a lot about the film industry, but sometimes teach us grizzled old pros as […]
“Electrifying” Critical Smash GOD’S OWN COUNTRY Opens Friday 12/29
It’s the time of the season for Year-End lists. In which critics, filmmakers and – well, everyone – is posting their lists of what the best movies or 2017 were. If you’ve been reading a lot of these, one title that has shown up a lot and that you may not be familiar with is […]
What They’re Saying About: BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY, Opening 12/22
The actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Kiesler (1914) in Austria, possessed a beauty that defied belief. Her life story is equally hard to believe. In 1933 she starred in the Czech erotic film ECSTASY, which became a controversial worldwide sensation. Later she married a wealthy munitions manufacturer and when he began to cozy […]
Don’t Miss! NOTHING LASTS FOREVER with Writer/Director Tom Schiller in Person
Tom Schiller is a comedy legend many times over for his work as one of the original writers of Saturday Night Live and as the filmmaker behind the SNL-featured shorts called Schiller’s Reels. In 1984, he made a comedy film unlike any other. Titled NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, it tells the story of a young man […]
Home For The Holidays? Join Us at the AFS Cinema for Holiday Classics
Nick & Nora Charles, doing what comes naturally at Christmas-time We all have our favorite holiday classics. During the holiday season this year at AFS we are reaching way back into Hollywood’s Golden Age to present some of our favorites, some very well known, some less so, but all great. Come celebrate the season with […]
‘Transcendent Masterpiece’ THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC Coming to AFS Cinema in New Restoration
In 1928, just a few years after the canonization of Joan of Arc, the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was approached to create a film biography of St. Joan. Dreyer, who could have gone in many directions, chose to show the spiritual struggle of the Maid of Orleans. To that end he cast the […]
AFS January/February 2018 Calendar of Events is Live!
Agnes Varda’s CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 AFS Signature and Specialty programs are now on sale through the end of February. There are many films to choose from: special series, old favorites, the best of new docs, and a visit from a filmmaking legend. You can see all the events here. Bong Joon-Ho’s MEMORIES OF […]
Moviegoers: Sharpen your Pencils & Fill out the 2017 National Art House Audience Survey
Every year, the Art House Convergence, a national network of community-based, mission-driven cinemas of which the AFS Cinema is proud to call itself a member, distributes a survey to the patrons of all the cinemas in the organization. All the member groups review the results with great interest – as do distributors, archives and others. […]
Watch This: An Exclusive Outtake from Richard Linklater’s LAST FLAG FLYING Q&A
As you may have heard, the highly acclaimed new film by AFS founder and Artistic Director, LAST FLAG FLYING, opens this Thursday at the AFS Cinema. Each screening of the film will be followed by an exclusive 15 minute Q&A video filmed at the Austin Premiere of the film. In order to keep the clip […]
What Critics are Saying about Richard Linklater’s LAST FLAG FLYING – Opening at AFS Cinema Thursday
Starting this Thursday, November 9, the AFS Cinema is proud to present the newest film from Austin Film Society founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklater. Steve Carrell, Laurence Fishburne and Bryan Cranston star as three old military buddies who have lost touch with one another and who are brought together again in middle age by […]
