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The Seventh Annual Austin Asian American Film Festival starts Nov. 13
The seventh annual Austin Asian American Film Festival (AAAFF) l runs from Nov. 13 to 16, mostly at the Marchesa Theater (6406 N I H 35 # 3100). “Revenge of the Green Dragons,” a mix of Hong Kong...
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ForeverFest starts Friday!
Are you now or have you ever been a girlie girl? Are you a dude and simply into girlie culture? Then you might very well enjoy “Forever Fest,” the Alamo Drafthouse’s girlie, pop-culture fest, now in...
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Austin Film Festival and Texas Book Festival on different weekends.
It’s official. The Texas Book Festival is Oct. 17-18, 2015. The Austin Film Festival is Oct. 29 to Nov. 5, 2015. This is the most important news you will get today. Or maybe it’s the most important...
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Sixth Annual RxSM Self-Medicated Film Expo March 11 to 15
Not going to South by Southwest but need that festival experience and want to do it all at SpiderHouse? Check out the sixth annual RxSM Self-Medicated Film Expo at Spiderhouse Ballroom on March 11-15....
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Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards honors Wilson, del Toro, others
Robert Rodriguez, Guillermo Del Toro and Danny Trejo walk the red carpet. (Suzanne Cordeiro / For American-Statesman) There aren’t many better ways to start an evening than hearing Mike Judge say, in...
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Cannes Day 7: ‘Sicario’ takes on the drug wars
The race for the Palme d’Or heated up Tuesday with the première of Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s “Sicario,” a violent drama about the efforts to take out the leader of a Mexican drug cartel....
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Cannes Day 8: Sorrentino’s ‘Youth’ looks at old age
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is only in his mid-40s, but since “The Great Beauty,” he has been reflecting on old age. His latest, “Youth,” stars Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two men nearing...
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Austin filmmakers featured in PBS Online Film Festival
What are the two best things about the this year’s PBS Online Film Festival? First, you can stream all the nominated short films online for free from now until July 17. Second, at least two...
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Austin Film Festival confirms a few new panels
A few new panels have been announced for the Austin Film Festival which kicks off Oct. 29. No word on who exactly is on them, but I am sure we will get there soon. Look for the following Conversation...
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Austin Film Festival announces first wave of films
The 22nd annual Austin Film Festival has announced its first wave of films. Here are some highlights, with the rest of the announced titles below. “Carol,” Todd Haynes’ adaptation of Patricia...
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AGLIFF review –‘That’s Not Us’
Complex relationship issues are at the heart of William Sullivan’s “That’s Not Us” – a film that introduces us to three couples on a getaway weekend to Fire Island. It’s late September and tourists are...
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AGLIFF review –‘Desert Migration’
Produced in association with the HIV Story Project, Daniel Cardone’s “Desert Migration” chronicles the lives of about a dozen men who are aging with AIDS. Popular culture currently provides more...
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AGLIFF Review –‘Nasty Baby’
In Sebastian Silva’s semiautobiographical drama he stars as Freddy, a performance artist living in Brooklyn with his boyfriend Mo (TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe, who also recently starred in...
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AGLIFF Review –‘The New Girlfriend’
From the psychosexual thriller “Swimming Pool,” to the candy-colored comedy of “Potiche,” French director François Ozon is full of surprises. Over twenty years into his career and he cannot be pinned...
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AGLIFF Review –‘Guidance’
With his rent late. piles of post-due bills on his coffee table, and a fresh diagnosis for skin cancer, alcoholic former child star David Gold (writer/director Pat Mills) comes across a local job...
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AGLIFF Review –‘Formerly Known As’
Janet Jensen has been a teacher for the AGLIFF-sponsored Queer Youth Media Project and also worked on the crew of several notable features like “Boyhood” and “The Tree Of Life.” On Sunday at the...
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Fantastic Fest 2015: “Tikkun” moves beautifully and slowly
Israeli filmmaker Avishai Sivan’s “Tikkun” is tough, beautiful sit, a glacial but gorgeous black and white look at the strictures of Orthodox Judaism and the sort of yeshiva student who gets erections...
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Fantastic Fest 2015: “Remix, Remake, Ripoff” rules
At this point, most movie nerds know about the sweet, sweet madness that is “The Man Who Saved the World” aka “Turkish Star Wars,” the 1982 pastiche of various Western sci-fi movies that might be the...
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Fantastic Fest 2015: Owen Egerton’s “Follow” is one grim Christmas movie
Good news, Austin! Local writer, comedian and extremely busy creative person Owen Egerton’s first feature film “Follow” isn’t just “friend good,” it’s actually good. That whoosh you hear is a sigh of...
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Austin Film Festival 2015: X, Y, and Why — Writing Gender and Sexuality
Moderator Bethany Johnson, left, with Jack Burditt, Kathy Greenberg and Rodrigo Garcia — Dale Roe, Austin American-Statesman X, Y, and Why — Writing Gender and Sexuality 10:45 a.m. Saturday, The Omni...
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