All Entries in the "Programming" Category
AFS Selects A SEPARATION at Violet Crown Cinema
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s powerful, multi-award-winning film about two intertwined couples in crisis +++++++++++++++++++++++ Written, produced, and directed by Asghar Farhadi Cinematography by Mahmoud Kalari Production design by Keyvan Moghaddam Edited by Hayedeh Safiyari Original music by Sattar Oraki Iran, 2011, distributed in US by Sony Pictures Classics, DCP, color, 123 min. Farsi with English [...]
Dictator in Documentary GRANITO Going to Court
In September, we showed the powerful documentary GRANITO, which delved into the genocide of Mayan people in Guatemala in the 1980s. The dictator in charge of those massacres, General Efrain Rios Montt, has finally been ordered into a Guatemalan courtroom to face charges of genocide, according to a New York Times report yesterday. Congratulations to [...]
Me, My Romani Family, and Woody Allen
A documentary directed by Laura Halilovic, Italy, 2010, 60 min. 19-year-old Laura Halilovic has made a completely charming documentary about her Romani family and her own interests and dreams. With her behind the camera and guided by her delightful narration, we get fascinating conversations with her mother(who wants Laura to get married), her father (who [...]
Avant Cinema: LIMITE
The Austin Film Society is devoted to showing and promoting films within the Austin community that would otherwise not receive valuable or widespread promotion. Our film programs are built to offer unusual and unique films from all around the world. Avant Cinema is the brainchild of Chale Nafus, our director of programming here at AFS, [...]
Notes on ROBIN HOOD
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Warner Brothers Studios. Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and a large cast of stuntmen. Cinematography by W. Howard Greene, Tony Gaudio and Sol Polito. Edited by Ralph Dawson. Musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. I. The Legend [...]
THE FIRST MOVIE: Mark Cousins and His Young Kurdish Filmmakers
Smiling children acting goofy in front of a camera, playing and then fighting with balloons, telling charming stories about animals, and giggling at bovine flatulence. Sheep and goats on hillsides, skies achingly blue, green groves of trees and plants, a river running through a village. All these images conjure up a bucolic scene, which could [...]
SLACKER Rolling Roadshow Details
Here is some information about our 20th anniversary screening of SLACKER tomorrow night! Get more info & tickets here >> Doors will open at 7:30 PM and the screening will begin at 9 PM. This is an outdoor Rolling Roadshow screening (the weather has been lovely out here the past few nights!) & you should [...]
Texas Arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival
All of us here at the Austin Film Society are very excited about the kick-off of the Los Angeles Film Festival, as it opens with the World Premiere of BERNIE, the new film from AFS Founder & Artistic Director Richard Linklater. In this delightfully poker-faced black comedy—based on a true story—an East Texas assistant funeral [...]
10-Year SLACKER Reunion Photos
We used our upcoming 20th anniversary celebration of SLACKER as an excuse to pull out the ‘ol photo album! Check out photos from the 10 Year Anniversary screening and party. We called everyone on the cast list but many of these slackers seem to have moved on (or have changed their numbers, go figure). Also [...]
Wiseman’s BOXING GYM and Garriott’s SPLIT DECISION on KLRU 6.16.11
AFS Avant Cinema advisor Caroline Koebel has written a beautifully insightful analysis of BOXING GYM, which we showed last fall. Thursday night KLRU will show BOXING GYM (8:30pm), preceded by SPLIT DECISION (7:30pm), former AFS Board President Marcy Garriott’s loving tribute to Austin’s boxing champion Jesus Chavez. Following is a review of SPLIT DECISION which [...]
