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Austin Chronicle
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That Eighties Film
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How Everybody Wants Some!! re-created history
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The Daily Texan
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Throwback Thursday: Four great remakes
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Most film remakes are inferior to their original counterparts and end up reminding us why we love the first versions more. However, a few remakes surpass the originals by reinterpreting them in fascinating ways or by adding newfound depth to their simpler stories. The Daily Texan compiled a list of four of those...
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: The Ultimate Midcentury Modern Industrial Film
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There are whole chapters of film history yet to be written about corporate and industrial films. These are films made for training, sales or other purposes. Generally these were shot by production bureaus who specialized in them. Such well-known filmmakers as Robert Altman and George Romero got their starts in "...
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Austin Film Festival
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AFF To Award Paul Feig and Nancy Meyers
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AFF, the premier festival that champions the writers’ contributions to film, television, and new media, announced today its 2016 Extraordinary Contribution to Film and Distinguished Screenwriter award recipients. Paul Feig and Nancy Meyers will be honored at the Festival’s 23rd anniversary this October 13-20. ...
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Other Worlds Austin
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OWA Announces 2nd Annual Star Wars Day Celebration
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Other Worlds Austin SciFi Film Festival will celebrate Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) with a program of stellar Star Wars fan films, a SciFi Dance Party (hosted by DJ Boba Fett), a costume contest, a special burlesque performance by OWA’s own Gemmi Galactic, as well as Star Wars memorabilia from Austin...
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Austin Chronicle
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The Winter Soldier Is Coming
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Wizard World bringing Captain America star to Austin
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Austin Chronicle
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Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Awards
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Paul Feig and Nancy Meyers recognized, plus panelists!
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AFS Viewfinders
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Listen Here: ARABIAN NIGHTS Trilogy Director Miguel Gomes Talks About his Epic
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Miguel Gomes as himself, buried in sand, in ARABIAN NIGHTS CHAPTER 1: THE RESTLESS ONEPortuguese writer/director Miguel Gomes is no newcomer. He has been making films since 1999 and his 2012 film TABU was an international arthouse hit. His latest work, the three volume ARABIAN NIGHTS Trilogy, is something very...
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Austin Chronicle
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Austin Film Society Wants to Give You Money
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Not an April fool: AFS Grants now up for grabs
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The Daily Texan
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Best Films of All Time
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It’s impossible to bask in the glory of every well-crafted movie, but to help you get started this April 1st, The Daily Texan has assembled a list of cinematic masterpieces that everyone needs to watch. “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” (1987) The most thematically intriguing of all superhero...
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The Daily Texan
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'I Saw the Light' fails to honor the late Hank Williams
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For much of the 20th century, traces of country singer Hank Williams appeared in the melodies of his musical successors. Despite this legacy, in “I Saw the Light,” writer and director Marc Abraham fails to recognize the impact of his career shoving it into the background of his ultimately underdeveloped...
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Austin Film Festival
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A Letter From Nicole Perlman
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Before I ever attended the Austin Film Festival, I marveled at how virtually every professional screenwriter I knew joined the pilgrimage from LA to Texas each October... Read More
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AFS Viewfinders
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Watch This: Warren Beatty on Austin TV in 1975
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Today is Warren Beatty's 79th birthday. Beatty is one of those great stars who, by virtue of his exceptionally careful project selection, may today be much less prominent to younger people than others of his generation who have sought the spotlight more fervently but who nonetheless has left behind a body of work that...
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Austin Film Festival
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Ed Solomon’s Tribute to Garry Shandling
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When Garry Shandling was a young comedy writer he got into a near fatal car accident. As he was preparing to die, he heard a voice asking if he was living the life Garry Shandling really should be living... Read More
