All posts tagged "austin"
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Strengthens Los Angeles’ Resurgent Film Scene with Their New Location Downtown
Aren’t we all still mourning the loss of Cinefamily? The beloved, homegrown repertory theater in West Hollywood grew in its short ten-year lifespan to capture...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities
“The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during a recent press conference. “It’s...
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Fantastic Fest 2018: Peak Programming and Premieres and a Self-Reflective Tone Shape the Austin Hotspot’s 13th Year
At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It’s a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which audiences are asked to expand...
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The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be spending those long, languid afternoons...
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Austin Revolution Film Festival 2017: A DIY Uprising is Brewing at Austin’s Secret Powerhouse Fest
It sounds like a moviemaker’s version of Big Rock Candy Mountain, I know: There’s a festival out there, somewhere, where being selected carries weight, the...
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Balancing Act: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying Deftly Dances Around America’s Political Minefields
Texas-based filmmaker Richard Linklater’s humanist touch and trademark ease affords him the ability to gracefully engage with more than a few of our country’s hot...
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Making the Case for Houston: Spotlight on This Texan Metropolis, With State Film Incentives on the Line
Commonly known as a business-heavy port city, Houston—surprisingly to some—is an ethnically diverse hub where a community of moviemakers, far from Hollywood, have opportunities to...
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Devilish Charisma: Michael Fassbender on Making Song to Song With Terrence Malick and Emmanuel Lubezki
Overdosing on his on own ambition, confronted with the shattered reality of a broken brotherly bond and a slew of unsatisfying affairs, Michael Fassbender’s Cook...
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Who Does Native American Culture Belong To?: Mat Hames Poses the Question in Documentary What Was Ours
Mat Hames is a filmmaker who is more interested in raising questions than giving answers. That much is clear from the titles of his films,...
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Austin Film Festival and Writer’s Conference for Virgins: Get the Most Out of Your Experience
The four-day Writer’s Conference at the Austin Film Festival, held every October since 1993, is for many the social, networking, educational and inspirational event of...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...