Austin Film News Mega-Feed
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AFS Viewfinders
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30 Years Ago: When Abe Vigoda Met Dr. Ruth
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Abe Vigoda, who died today at the age of 94, seemed like a great guy. He was blessed with an unforgettable face and he was a fine actor whom everyone who worked with him seemed to love. Today most of us know him best from his role in THE GODFATHER as Sal Tessio. He was also one of the stars of the very successful...
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Austin Movie Blog
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“Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny” headed to PBS
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Richard Linklater and Louis Black “American Masters,” the PBS documentary series about the lives of creatives in various fields, has nabbed the broadcast rights to Louis Black and Karen Bernstein’’s “Richard Linklater: Dream is Destiny,” which screened Tuesday afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival, Variety reported...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch this: Sergei Eisenstein's Avant-Dada Short Film from 1923
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In 1923, 25-year old Sergei Eisenstein, destined to change the art of film forever as director of BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN and other seminal works, was working as a stage director. On one production he had the idea to add a multimedia element, a filmed fantasia that would serve as an act break and a cover for changing sets...
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Austin Movie Blog
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A few awesome weekend screenings
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In case you, the discerning movie–goer, still have not seen it, Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” from 2003, often billed as one of the very worst movies ever made, is screening at 10 p.m. Sunday at Alamo South Lamar. The Drafthouse is also wrapping up a Guy Maddin kick. Look for screenings of his “Me Trilogy” of short...
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Austin Movie Blog
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As we head into Sundance, Filmmaker looks at “How Seven Films from Sundance 2015 Performed”
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Here is a terrific piece from Filmmaker Magazine called “Hits & Misses: How Seven Films from Sundance 2015 Performed.” There’s some great stuff in there, things I knew (how much money “Dope” made), and things I did not (“The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” for my money last year...
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Austin Movie Blog
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‘Ip Man 3’ a fitting end to martial arts saga (Our grade: B)
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Donnie Yen in “Ip Man 3.” (Well Go USA) Walter Addiego – San Francisco Chronicle It’s the Donnie Yen touch that makes “Ip Man 3” worth watching. Perhaps today’s premier martial arts star, the affable Yen portrays the title character — a renowned 20th century Chinese grandmaster of fighting arts — as...
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Austin Movie Blog
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‘Boy & the World’ is charming bit of Brazilian animation (Our grade: B)
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A boy tries to reunite his family in the Brazilian animated movie “Boy and the World.” (GKids) Charles Solomon – Los Angeles Times One of the first animated features made in Brazil, “Boy & the World” is a brightly colored, often charming film that juxtaposes simple, hand-drawn animation with...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: Fascinating Footage of Cecil B. DeMille Directing 1934's CLEOPATRA
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Pardon the poor video quality, this footage is worth it. It's very rare to see footage of any Golden Age director actually going about the work of directing. The featurette is certainly staged, and stagey, but we get a sense of what Cecil B. DeMille was like as a director and also of his priorities for shooting scenes...
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Alamo Drafthouse
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It’s Time To Go
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This weekend, starting Thursday, we launch into the sixth annual Mile High Horror Film Festival. It’s a fest that has, in a very short span, become the best genre festival in Colorado and it was launched this year, on Monday, with an early sneak of GOOSEBUMPS with the cast, Jack Black, Odeya Rush, Dylan...
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Alamo Drafthouse
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Help AGFA keep the legacy of Something Weird alive for all eternity!
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The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) has launched its most important preservation mission yet. And we need your help. Something Weird Video altered our perceptions of cinema, humans, and reality. They held our hands while introducing us to filmmakers who destroyed preconceived notions about the concept of movies...
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Alamo Drafthouse
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Enter the Vortex
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If you’ve attended one of our Video Vortex shows recently, you’ve likely listened to me spend nearly half the introduction blathering on about how much I adore this series. It’s that robotic mechanical sound of the VCR inhaling the tape to output a burning hiss through the theater that gets me. It...
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Alamo Drafthouse
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The October Country
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October is my favorite month. It didn’t used to be. It is now. My daughter was born in October. Halloween is fun with kids - last year, she won a contest as the “Bride of Edward Scissorhands”. It’s exactly as cool as it sounds. This year, she’s going as Neil Gaiman’s Death...
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Alamo Drafthouse
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Telluride 2015
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About three hours into the six-hour drive to Telluride, I feel something unknot. It’s somewhere between my shoulder blades. My head clears. I found myself stopping more this year than I have in years past. I pull off onto more scenic overlooks. I push my teeth into the journey. It’s like...
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Fantastic Fest
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Festival Blues
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Entire books have been written on it, but in case you’re headed up to Telluride this weekend - or planning on hitting the Mile High Horror Film Fest in October - here’s a quick survival guide for festival-going for the serious fan. To be clear, I’ve never really been to a festival as a fan....
