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Austin Film Festival
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Introducing our NEW Capital Badge!
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AFF is happy to announce the new Capital Badge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the Twitter contest to help name the badge. There were several bold and creative choices leading to very engaging discussions amongst the AFF team to pick a winner. In the end, it was decided that the Capital Badge best...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: Harry Dean Stanton Smokes, Drinks Whiskey and Talks PARIS, TEXAS
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Here's the great Harry Dean Stanton in an interview filmed a couple of years ago talking about the backstory of his appearance in Wim Wenders' 1984 classic PARIS, TEXAS. Wenders, David Lynch and Kris Kristofferson also chime in.The newly restored, PARIS, TEXAS screens twice at AFS@The Marchesa: Friday 2/5 and Sunday 2...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Don Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead,” a Mike Birbiglia comedy and Danny McBride’s “Vice Principals” in latest slate of SXSW films
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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 Danny McBride are a few of the highlights from the latest round of films (and television shows)...
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Austin Chronicle
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SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup
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Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more
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Austin Movie Blog
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“First Girl I Loved,” directed, produced, shot by UT grads, wins audience award at Sundance
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“First Girl I Loved” First Girl I Loved , a film directed (Kerem Sanga (BS ’06), produced (Seth Caplan (BS ’02) and shot (Rick Diaz (BS ’06) by UT grads, has won the 2016 Sundance Film Festival NEXT Audience Award. Here is part of the official summary: “Anne is a 17-year-old...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Flashback 1950: Directorial Titans Clash In Hollywood Over Communist Hysteria
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After WWII the United States faced off against a new adversary, its former ally the Soviet Union. No shots were fired, but the two superpowers existed in a constant state of alert. In America, the fear of Soviet takeover amounted to a kind of national pathology. Demagogues like Senator Joseph McCarthy had their day,...
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Austin Movie Blog
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“Lazer Team” pulls in 11th best per screen average for its opening weeking
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“Lazer Team,” the first feature from the Austin-based media juggernaut Rooster Teeth, has grossed $1,123,697 in its opening weekend, coming in 53rd for the weekend. That number may seem small when compared to, say, “Kung Fu Panda 3,” which won the weekend with $41 million. But “Lazer Team...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Not exactly smooth sailing for ‘The Finest Hours’ (Our grade: C+)
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Cary Darling – Fort Worth Star-Telegram “The Finest Hours,” based on the true story of the valiant 1952 Coast Guard rescue of a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Massachusetts, splits in two much like the wounded vessel at its heart. There’s the film that’s set on the sea, and much of that is pretty terrific...
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Austin Movie Blog
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‘Red vs. Blue’ + ‘Power Rangers’ = ‘Lazer Team’ (Our grade: C)
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Some are born to (or trained from birth for) greatness; some have greatness thrust upon them (or accidentally shoot it out of the sky with fireworks). “Lazer Team,” the first live-action flick by the Austin-based online content creators Rooster Teeth (of “Red vs. Blue” fame), concerns the latter — four doofs who have...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Po is back as the bumbling, heroic panda (Our grade: B)
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Sandie Angulo Chen – Washington Post Move over, Poe Dameron. Po the panda is back in town. And this Dragon Warrior is every bit as brave as the galaxy’s favorite Resistance pilot. DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda 2” (2011) ended with a revelation: The biological father of Po (voice of Jack Black) is alive...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Charlotte Rampling is quietly devastating in ‘45 Years’ (Our grade: A)
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Ann Hornaday – The Washington Post It’s this time of year when grown-ups come out — not to play, exactly, but to provide audiences with an honest, sometimes merciless glimpse of aging, from the un-taut beauty of spreading bodies and the miracle of enduring devotion to severe illness and loss. In recent years,...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Linklater doc getting good reviews at Sundance
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The early reviews for “Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny” are coming in … and they’re good. The movie, directed by Louis Black of the Austin Chronicle and Karen Bernstein, had its premiere on Tuesday at the Sundance Film Festival, and the venue couldn’t have been more appropriate. Sundance was the setting for the...
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AFS Viewfinders
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RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY - First Wave of Sundance Reviews
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The documentary RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY screened at Sundance yesterday and the first reviews are in. The doc, directed by Louis Black and Karen Bernstein, gives audiences the most complete portrait yet of Richard Linklater, writer, director and, yes, founder and Artistic Director of the Austin Film Society...
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Austin Movie Blog
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Short with Austin-based producer wins Sundance Jury Award
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A still from “The Procedure” “The Procedure,” a short film written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, won the Sudance Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fictionb. It was produced by Bears Fonte, former programming director for the Austin Film Festival and current director of programming (and...
