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The Daily Texan
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'Green Room' excels as a heart-pounding thriller
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Jeremy Saulnier’s latest directorial effort, “Green Room,” explores the relationship between white supremacy and violence in the present day, utilizing its implications to sustain a tense narrative that delivers some of the year’s best thrills. In “Green Room,” a struggling punk...
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Austin Chronicle
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Film Flam
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Cine Las Americas drops fest lineup; Clay Liford on fanboys
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Austin Film Festival
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A Letter from Brian Klugman
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It was the day my film Baby Baby Baby was premiering at the Austin Film Festival and I had never seen rain like that before. My phone was beeping incessantly with different texts from different people telling me that they had been stranded, rerouted, or were stuck. Read More
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Austin Film Festival
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Guest Blog: Jimmy Mosqueda
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If you’re a serious screenwriter, you go to Austin. That’s just what you do. It’s like a religious pilgrimage, but instead of prayer and quiet contemplation, there’s beer, barbecue, and Shane Black. Read More
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AFS Viewfinders
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SLASH Filmmaker Clay Liford To Upset Superhero Movie Fans: Drop Dead
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SLASH writer/director Clay LifordThe above headline, a riff on the famous New York Post headline "Ford To City: Drop Dead," is perhaps a tiny bit inflammatory, but not much more so than the title of today's excellent Talkhouse piece, "Fanboys, Hollywood Owes You Nothing," by filmmaker Clay Liford.Liford, whose new...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Frederick Wiseman Talks About His Method & "The Only Safe Assumption" About Audiences
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Here's a video interview with Frederick Wiseman recorded at the time of the release of his documentary NATIONAL GALLERY. In it, he gives a nice, concise overview of his aesthetic. In May and June, AFS will show three new 35mm prints of Wiseman's early films TITICUT FOLLIES, HIGH SCHOOL and HOSPITAL."The way I try to...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Listen Here: An Audio Interview with Screenwriter/Author Leigh Brackett
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People are always surprised when you tell them that the same screenwriter who wrote 1946's THE BIG SLEEP (with those journeymen collaborators Jules Furthman and William Faulkner) also wrote (in collaboration with Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas) THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. For some reason they are also surprised to find...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: Charles Burnett's First Film: SEVERAL FRIENDS (1969)
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Filmmaker Charles Burnett was born on this day in 1944. Though he was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his family moved to Watts in South Central Los Angeles when Burnett was a child. Burnett's family was only one of many black southern families to relocate to the Watts neighborhood and the area's south-inflected...
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Austin Film Festival
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AFF’s On Story Premieres Season Six
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Austin Film Festival, is pleased to announce that its original series, On Story, premieres its sixth season on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, on public television stations nationwide. Read More
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Austin Film Festival
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Guest Blog: Looking for Lion’s Norman Lesperance
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We had the pleasure and honor of competing in the Austin Film Festival in 2014 with our feature film, Looking for Lions. It was a micro budget indie crime thriller, unorthodox in its structure, and as most films of the micro budget nature, it had no star power to help sell it to distributors. Read More
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Austin Chronicle
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Fun With "M.O.P.Z." at 2am
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Todd Rohal puts laughs on fast-forward with new Adult Swim special
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: Ingrid Bergman In an Oddball Wartime Educational Film: SWEDES IN AMERICA
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We can understand why producer David O. Selznick, upon seeing Ingrid Bergman in a Swedish film, knew he had to bring her to America. Bergman wore little or no makeup, was modest and unaffected, but also bold and intelligent. She is one of the great movie stars, and one of the finest actresses of any era.At the height...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Mary Pickford: Star, Producer, Mogul, Independent Film Legend, Born on This Day in 1892
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Mary Pickford was born on this date as Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto in 1892. When her father was killed in a workplace accident, her mother was compelled to take in boarders to make ends meet. One of these boarders was a theatrical producer who saw potential in 9-year-old Gladys and cast her in a stage part. Success...
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The Daily Texan
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Filmmakers split over new movie screening service
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Spoiler alert — the movie industry is in danger. Movie exhibition has served as an outlet for filmmakers to screen their work to the general public. Though its 100-year history has been problematic, a newly-proposed service called The Screening Room is generating some of the greatest uncertainty movie...
