austin film festival

The 2011 Austin Film Festival has come and gone, and while many of the films shown there last week will sadly drift into relative obscurity, a few of the studio-backed titles will begin making the rounds at theaters soon.

The Austin Film Festival wrapped up last night after giving film fans eight wonderful days of screenings and four days...

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The weeks ahead will bring new movies from Almodovar, Von Trier, Eastwood and Herzog, indicating the arrival of awards season movies to the area.

If you're not in a post-Austin Film Festival coma after the last eight days, we've got a few good reasons to visit your favorite area theater this weekend!

1) The number one thing we love this week is definitely the Austin Film Festival, which has kept our asses...

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The first few days of the 2011 Austin Film Festival went by in a flash, and were packed with all the fine film moments, educational panels, and inevitably uncomfortable Q&As we've come to expect.

Check out a few of our highlights so far.

Plucking showrunner geniuses from the pool of Austin Film Festival panelists for a word or two about the origin of their content, their writing habits, and their unique experiences in this eclectic city is one of our favorite past times.

7:00pm: Rollins Theater in the Long Center. 7:00 pm: Searching for Sonny Andrew Disney 2011 - Texas Independents - 91 min - Rollins Theatre presented...

The thriller is a genre that’s been around a looooong time, and it’s hard to come up with something new and innovative.

The best you can do is find a new angle or fresh take on a previously played out scenario. Or at least that’s what we thought until we read a bit about this intriguing little film.

"Hookers, booze, gunfights, and miners going berserk." That used to be Darwin, an isolated Death Valley town founded in 1874 once silver was discovered there.

While its population peaked at 3,500 in 1877, present-day Darwin contains a mere 35 people.