“So Much Innocence”: Wes Anderson on Truffaut’s SMALL CHANGE
Francois Truffaut & cast members, behind the scenes of SMALL CHANGE Francois Truffaut’s 1976 film SMALL CHANGE screens twice at the AFS Cinema in 35mm. On Sunday 8/27, as part of the family-friendly Sunday School program and as an encore screening on Wednesday 8/30. In 2002, when director Wes Anderson, fresh from THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, […]
The New 4k Reissue of SUSPIRIA Looks Amazing: Here’s Why
The AFS Cinema is proud to present the new restoration of horror legend Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic SUSPIRIA, starting September 1. Tickets are on sale now. Over the past four years, Synapse Films has partnered with some heavy hitters to reconstruct what is sure to be the definitive version of Argento’s seminal vision. Presented […]
“A Poetic Spellbinder…” What Critics are Saying About COLUMBUS
If your social media feed looks anything like mine, you’ve been hearing more and more people singing the praises of the terrifically engaging new film COLUMBUS. It is certainly the best-reviewed film out there today (98% on the Tomatometer), and many of the critics are pulling out the superlatives. Note Richard Brody’s review below. Brody […]
What the Critics are Saying About Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ENDLESS POETRY
Portrait of the artist as a young man, relentlessly hounded by winged death, ceaselessly threshing the tumultuous sea in a, uh, purple boat The Chilean-born writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky has been making films for a long time – his first feature film was made nearly 50 years ago – but he was nearly 40 years of […]
Joan Crawford: Forsaking All Others
The AFS Essential Cinema Series Bette & Joan, spotlighting two of the greatest film actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, is currently underway at the AFS Cinema. The series culminates in a Movie Madness party and screening of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? on August 25. Though they shared a profession and were […]
From Video Essay to Screen: Why Kogonada’s COLUMBUS is a Radical Movie
COLUMBUS opens at the AFS Cinema on August 25. Writer/director Kogonada will join us in person for the August 26, 7pm screening and will also attend a free screening on the same afternoon of his collected video essays. About 5 years ago, a video essay explicating Stanley Kubrick’s use of the one-point-perspective appeared on the […]
What They’re Saying about LANDLINE, Opening this Week at AFS Cinema
Director Gillian Robespierre’s (OBVIOUS CHILD) comedic second feature LANDLINE has thrown the Los Angeles and New York cinema scenes for a nostalgic loop which The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday calls “a rueful glimpse of a vanished time and place. . . often unexpectedly and guffawingly funny.” Again, here Robespierre teams with actor Jenny Slate […]
Bette Davis: That Certain Woman
The AFS Essential Cinema Series Bette & Joan, spotlighting two of the greatest film actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, starts today, August 3. The series culminates in a Movie Madness party and screening of WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? on August 25. Though they shared a profession and were […]
AFS Goes a Long Way Back with A GHOST STORY Director David Lowery
When David Lowery’s film AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS became a breakout hit in 2013, many filmgoers were introduced to this special talent, a writer-director poised to break into the pantheon. But, as it happened, the Austin Film Society was already very familiar with Lowery. If you only know AFS as the home of film exhibition, […]
Watch This: Suzanne Ciani Brings Far-Out Synthesis to 80s Kid’s TV
Suzanne Ciani may not be a household name, but the sounds she invented were in every home in America during the early 80s. In addition to her brilliant work as an electronic composer, Ciani pioneered the use of synthesizers to create musical sound effects – like the fizzy pop of a Coke bottle cap (a […]
The Peter Sellers Comedy Classic You’ve (Probably) Never Seen is Coming to the AFS Cinema
AFTER THE FOX (1967) closes the AFS Comedy, Italian Style series with a bang. It screens (in 35mm) on Thursday June 29 and Saturday, July 1. When we reflect on the great Peter Sellers’ comedic performances we might, understandably, first think of Blake Edwards’ PINK PANTHER movies, of his performances in the early dark comedies […]
An Introduction to UGETSU Director Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi and company behind the scenes of UGETSU With the new restoration of Kenji Mizoguchi’s late masterpiece UGETSU (1954) playing in theaters nationwide – it opens at the AFS Cinema on Saturday, June 24 – the rediscovery of this great master, whose career was roughly contemporaneous with our John Ford and who was similarly a […]
