With the conference winding down, I have found myself having Aff withdrawals. Now that I was able to breathe (and sleep in) again, I was able to actually look at a schedule and try to pick something to go to in advance.
I had no intention of seeing Inside Llewyn Davis. It's not that I wasn't interested, but I knew that it would be coming out in theatres soon (December 20, in Austin). So when my friend Alexa told me she was going to make it downtown again for the screening, along with a handful of other friends who would be there, I figured I might as well see what it's all about.
I am a huge Coen Brothers fan. Films like Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski are up there amongst my favorites. But lately, I felt the films they have put out haven't been their best. I tried to...
I had no intention of seeing Inside Llewyn Davis. It's not that I wasn't interested, but I knew that it would be coming out in theatres soon (December 20, in Austin). So when my friend Alexa told me she was going to make it downtown again for the screening, along with a handful of other friends who would be there, I figured I might as well see what it's all about.
I am a huge Coen Brothers fan. Films like Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski are up there amongst my favorites. But lately, I felt the films they have put out haven't been their best. I tried to...
- 10/30/2013
- by Marcelena Mayhorn
- Slackerwood
The full lineup for the 2013 Austin Film Festival has yet to be fully revealed, but the first wave of feature titles was announced a few days ago and news of the short film program has been inventively trickling out via the Twitter feeds of Aff Film Department Director Ryan Darbonne and Director of Programming Bears Fonte.
This week I checked in with Bears to find out more about the selections, which vary wildly in tone, style and worldview (that's a good thing, of course). He gave me brief descriptions of each film and also revealed which shorts have Texas and/or Austin connections. Whether you’re looking to push yourself to explore the unknown or just filling an empty time slot when you don’t know what else to see, sitting down for a couple of shorts programs is usually a smart film festival strategy.
To help guide you a little,...
This week I checked in with Bears to find out more about the selections, which vary wildly in tone, style and worldview (that's a good thing, of course). He gave me brief descriptions of each film and also revealed which shorts have Texas and/or Austin connections. Whether you’re looking to push yourself to explore the unknown or just filling an empty time slot when you don’t know what else to see, sitting down for a couple of shorts programs is usually a smart film festival strategy.
To help guide you a little,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Caitlin Moore
- Slackerwood
Slackerwood has a standard process for publishing details about a local film festival's lineup and other news. Someone from the festival, or the fest's PR company, sends us a press release with the info. We do a little research to find out the Austin and Texas connections, write it up into an interesting (I hope) article, maybe add a nice photo or two and embed some trailers ... and share it with you.
Austin Film Festival, however, is shaking things up this year in a fun way. Programmers Bears Fonte and Ryan Darbonne will be announcing the first films in the 2013 lineup via Twitter. It seems that we'll all find out together what the first batch of the festival's shorts programming will be sometime today. It hasn't happened yet.
So if you are interested in finding out what will screen at the October 24-31 festival, follow @austinfilmfest on Twitter today. You...
Austin Film Festival, however, is shaking things up this year in a fun way. Programmers Bears Fonte and Ryan Darbonne will be announcing the first films in the 2013 lineup via Twitter. It seems that we'll all find out together what the first batch of the festival's shorts programming will be sometime today. It hasn't happened yet.
So if you are interested in finding out what will screen at the October 24-31 festival, follow @austinfilmfest on Twitter today. You...
- 8/1/2013
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Here's the latest in Austin and Texas film news.
Will James Moore's and Jonathan Case's independent film Satellite of Love (Jette's review) will screen 7:30 pm on Wednesday in the Afs Screening Room. Austin filmmaker Moore will be in attendance for a Q&A moderated by our Slackerwood editor Jette Kernion. The Central Texas-shot film, about a love triangle between friends that unfolds over the course of a week, stars Zachary Knight (Happy Endings) and Janina Gavankar (True Blood). The movie previously screened locally at Austin Film Festival in 2012.The American Library Association included Austin-based filmmaker Heather Courtney's Where Soldiers Come From (Jette's review) on its annual list of notable videos for adults. Courtney's documentary, about the lives of small-town childhood friends who enlist in the U.S. National Guard after graduating high school, is one of 15 outstanding titles released on video within the last two years...
Will James Moore's and Jonathan Case's independent film Satellite of Love (Jette's review) will screen 7:30 pm on Wednesday in the Afs Screening Room. Austin filmmaker Moore will be in attendance for a Q&A moderated by our Slackerwood editor Jette Kernion. The Central Texas-shot film, about a love triangle between friends that unfolds over the course of a week, stars Zachary Knight (Happy Endings) and Janina Gavankar (True Blood). The movie previously screened locally at Austin Film Festival in 2012.The American Library Association included Austin-based filmmaker Heather Courtney's Where Soldiers Come From (Jette's review) on its annual list of notable videos for adults. Courtney's documentary, about the lives of small-town childhood friends who enlist in the U.S. National Guard after graduating high school, is one of 15 outstanding titles released on video within the last two years...
- 2/4/2013
- by Jordan Gass-Poore'
- Slackerwood
By Brandon Martin
At first glance, the Salvage Vanguard Theater looks like it was either once a boutique storage company or Austin's most prestigious clown school. Currently, it serves as a center for the city's artists, audiences and arts organizations, and is the venue for Cinema41. This nonprofit organization screens independent films that have influenced film, but in their own time largely went unseen. July 19's movie, In the Soup, was the series' last screening before a hiatus.
Located on the east side on Manor Road, the theater is almost camouflaged by the residential neighborhood that surrounds it. Only a 10-minute drive from my apartment, it was just a skip away. And I overestimated how long it would take me to get there, so I had lots of time. But you couldn't miss it once you found it. I drove into the gravel parking lot taking my sweet time to park.
At first glance, the Salvage Vanguard Theater looks like it was either once a boutique storage company or Austin's most prestigious clown school. Currently, it serves as a center for the city's artists, audiences and arts organizations, and is the venue for Cinema41. This nonprofit organization screens independent films that have influenced film, but in their own time largely went unseen. July 19's movie, In the Soup, was the series' last screening before a hiatus.
Located on the east side on Manor Road, the theater is almost camouflaged by the residential neighborhood that surrounds it. Only a 10-minute drive from my apartment, it was just a skip away. And I overestimated how long it would take me to get there, so I had lots of time. But you couldn't miss it once you found it. I drove into the gravel parking lot taking my sweet time to park.
- 7/30/2012
- by Contributors
- Slackerwood
If you haven't yet read Alison Macor's book Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas, you are missing out on the rich history of Austin's film community. I was excited when Ryan Darbonne, executive director of Cinema41 -- a volunteer group of cinephiles producing twice-monthly screenings at The Salvage Vanguard Theater -- told me that the group's namesake was Cinema 40 Film Society, a student-run volunteer effort at The University of Texas that he'd read about in Macor's book.
The year was 1965 and much like the Austin Film Society, Cinema 40 started out as a way to showcase art films presented by the directors. The group enjoyed highlights with Jean Luc Godard and Andy Warhol presenting work ... a pedigree worthy of reincarnation by a recent college grad looking for black independent films and indies of the 80s and 90s on Austin screens and coming up short.
Darbonne...
The year was 1965 and much like the Austin Film Society, Cinema 40 started out as a way to showcase art films presented by the directors. The group enjoyed highlights with Jean Luc Godard and Andy Warhol presenting work ... a pedigree worthy of reincarnation by a recent college grad looking for black independent films and indies of the 80s and 90s on Austin screens and coming up short.
Darbonne...
- 4/2/2012
- by Agnes Varnum
- Slackerwood
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