This week in Austin screenings 10/27-11/2
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Following a screening of the Theatrical cut of The Exorcist at IFC Center, playwright John Pielmeier sat down to discuss his work adapting the film for the stage, his work on Agnes of God, and how faith and innocence figure into work.
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In the case of Agnes Varda’s 1968 short film, Uncle Yanco, she finds a balance between revealing how the artifice of filmmaking can expose the inherent falseness in the medium and how this falseness may reveal something deeper to the film.
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If even Parker Posey feels like she missed the “good” New York, you’re allowed some forgiveness for your nostalgia.
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Jeff Baugh shares his thoughts on a recent genre exercise done with surprising brutality along with one of the most famous sci-fi films of all time in the newest installment of The Filmist.
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This week in Austin screenings 10/20-10/26.
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Reverie is the debut short film from auteur Brian Bowers, who is a multifaceted creative with a passion for experimental storytelling. I had the honor to speak with Brian, trying to wrap my head around how he was able to pull off these sentiments. We talk about everything from off-site directing to dance choreography to the works of great poets.
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If Killers of the Flower Moon is not the best film of Scorsese's career, it's only because he's made the best film of his career so many times before.
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Kellen Lowe takes a look at a pivotal scene in Adventureland and muses on the passion inherent in being an artist in the latest installment of In Deep Focus.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) took on the best of what the show had to offer and remains the most human of all the films, writers reviewer Will Carroll.
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This week in Austin screenings 10/13-10/19
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All of Hyperreal Film Club’s 2023 Fantastic Fest coverage in one convenient place.
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Hyperreal Film Club writer Blake Williams sat down with producer Jaime Arnaiz, and actors, Mario Mayo and Fernando Gil from the film, I’ll Crush Y’all for an exclusive interview at Fantastic Fest 2023 to talk about the action film scene in Spain, how to get the action star physique, and getting mistaken for Jason Statham.
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The singular way that Gareth Edward’s newest original studio sci-fi film The Creator was made is full stop revolutionary in its design and execution.
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Has your life ever felt like it was falling apart? As if every single thing that could go wrong, went wrong? At the moment, it’s a terrible feeling. But to see bad things continuously happen to someone else? Especially when you can hardly do anything to help, that can be wrenching. The last film I was able to catch at Fantastic Fest 2023, F. Javier Gutierrez’s The Wait, looks to capture this feeling of helplessness at the powers beyond us going out of its way to make everything terrible.
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This week in Austin screenings 10/6-10/12.
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The Toxic Avenger is weird and loud, and in a lot of ways, a middle finger to the big budget superhero movies we’ve been inundated with for the past few years. An ode to the Troma films of the past while adapting that style for the modern day, The Toxic Avenger knows exactly how to tweak that formula and make it more accessible without ostracizing those that will flock to this movie off nostalgia alone.
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In an interview with Buck Alamo director and writer Ben Epstein, explore the origins of his feature film, Austin’s influence on it, and his experience working with the legendary Bruce Dern.
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In River, Junta Yamaguchi finds an emotional core to transform his ambitious two-minute-long gimmicks into a sincerely touching story of love, loss, regret, and professionalism.
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Say a blasphemous prayer, raise your gaze to the night sky, and rejoice. With the Fantastic Fest premiere of AGFA’s new restoration, one of American horror’s most stunning and unsettling works finally shines in all its gloomy glory.
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