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Other Worlds Austin starts TONIGHT!
Other Worlds Austin, the city’s only science fiction film festival, starts tonight at the Galaxy Highland. It continues Friday and Saturday. The U.S. première of Özgür Yildirim’s “Boy 7,” the...
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Don Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead,” a Mike Birbiglia comedy and Danny McBride’s...
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead” (Sony Pictures Classics) Mike Birbiglia’s new comedy about an improv group starring Keegan-Michael Key, a feature about Miles Davis and a new HBO series by...
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Tribeca Festival yanks anti-vaccination film by Texas filmmaker
Robert DeNiro, founder and director of the Tribeca Film Festival, has yanked the anti-vaccination documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Conspiracy” from the lineup. Andrew Wakefield (photo: Jay Janner)...
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Cine Las Americas announces opening and closing night films for 19th annual...
“Magallanes” The Peruvian film “Magallanes,” written and directed by Salvador del Solar will open the 19th annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, while the Costa Rican dramdy “Viaje,”...
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SXSW winner ‘Transpecos’ gets distribution deal
Here’s an uplifting tale for aspiring filmmakers out there. And it also illustrates why festivals like South by Southwest, Fantastic Fest and the Austin Film Festival are so important. Austin resident...
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Cannes Day 4: Early standouts are ‘Toni Erdmann’ and ‘The Student’
Sandra Huller and Peter Simonischek in “Toni Erdmann” “Toni Erdmann,” a German comedy from newcomer Maren Ade, has to be one of the early favorites in the annual race for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes...
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The Paramount Theatre announces Summer Classic Film lineup; goes digital
It’s repertory season, also known as summer, which means the lineup for the 2016 Summer Classic film series at the Paramount and Stateside Theatres is out now. 2016 marks 41 years of Paramount’s...
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Cannes Day 10: 5 reasons why Sean Penn’s ‘The Last Face’ is a disaster
Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron in “The Last Face.” Sean Penn told the Financial Times that he had a lot riding on the Cannes premiere of his new directorial effort, “The Last Face.” If he was...
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Cannes Day 10: Two fine movies close out competition
Isabelle Huppert gives a wicked performance in “Elle.” Two fine but very different movies — Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” and Asghar Farad’s “The Salesman” — closed out the competition this weekend for the...
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Cannes, the final day: Britain’s Loach wins Palme for ‘I, Daniel Blake’
Hayley Squires and Dave Johns in “I, Daniel Blake.” In a big surprise, Britain’s Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday evening, his second after 2006’s “The Wind That Shakes...
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Tim Burton brings ‘Miss Peregrine’ to Fantastic Fest!
” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” Tim Burton brings his adaptation of “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” while Don Coscarelli, architect of the Phantasm series, delivers the...
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Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” to open Fantastic Fest
Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction epic “Arrival,” which stars Amy Adams, will open Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest. Villeneuve (“Sicario”) has been tapped to helm the upcoming “Blade Runner” sequel....
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AGLIFF is here – check out an exclusive clip from the Ana Egge documentary...
The 29th annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival starts today. Behold the stories of gay men, lesbians, bisexual people, transgender women and men and all sorts of folks within the...
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AGLIFF review – ‘Real Boy’
Bennett Wallace (left) and his mentor Joe Stevens All I want is to be loved by my family but for them, it’s not as simple as that. While it can still...
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AGLIFF review –‘Lovesong’
Riley Keough and Jena Malone in “Lovesong” (Sundance Institute) The fourth full-length feature from Korean-American director So Yong Kim (“Treeless Mountain”) had its...
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AGLIFF review –‘Growing Up Coy’
The Mathis family, “Growing Up Coy” Controversy over the rights of transgender Americans to use the bathroom has somehow recently become a...
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AGLIFF review –‘Political Animals’
Christine Kehoe, Carole Migden, Sheila Kuehl, and Jackie Goldberg star in “Political Animals.” “This is personal. There is no definition of family that does not include my family.” When you...
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AGLIFF review –‘Free CeCe!’
Laverne Cox and CeCe McDonald star in “Free CeCe!” Director Jacqueline Gares was a showrunner for the long-running LGBT news program “In The Life,” which aired...
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AGLIFF review –‘Bright Shadow’
Ana Egge (lower right) performs in “Bright Shadow” I suspect that many Austinites are familiar with having a favorite local band or artist who you...
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AGLIFF review –‘Kiki’
Chi Chi Mizrahi and Twiggy Pucci Garcon star in “Kiki” It’s been 25 years since audiences were first introduced to the Ballroom scene in New York City thanks to...
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