Workin’ Hard: Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl (La noire de…) and Borom Sarret

Senegalese fiction writer-turned-filmmaker Ousmane Sembene finds something alluring in the lives of these workers,

ReviewsJustin NorrisFebruary 6, 2024ousmane sembene, borom sarret, black girlComment

Bite-sized Sundance 2024 Reviews

A selection of Sundance 2024’s independent film offerings, from queer neo-noir Ponyboi, to the experimental AI-structured Eno, to Sasquatch Sunset’s Sasquatch pee.

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This week in Austin screenings 2/2-2/9

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldFebruary 2, 2024Comment

Remastered Czech Film from 1963 Offers Whimsy and Cool Cats in Spades

Vojtěch Jasný’s The Cassandra Cat highlights political hypocrisy in a mystical tale led by a cat wearing sunglasses.

Gabrielle SanchezFebruary 1, 2024Comment

New Year, New Movies: An Alternate Calendar

New year, who dis? Oh, it’s movies? Great, come on in.

Alternate Calendar, ListsZiah GraceJanuary 31, 2024Splendor, Blonde Death, Crime Wave, God Told Me To, Guncrazy, VigilComment

Psychotronic Drive-In #1

For the inaugural edition of Psychotronic Drive-In, we’re covering two Spanish films released in 1973: Attack of the Blind Dead and The Vampires’ Night Orgy. Both are spectacular examples of what makes Spain’s horror output in the 1960s and 1970s so compelling and unique.

Sad Girl (™) Core: Priscilla and Marie Antoinette in Conversation

Let Sofia Coppola make a movie about every woman who’s ever lived.

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This week in Austin community screenings.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJanuary 26, 2024Comment

"Yeah, This is Really My Number": An Interview with Matt Farley

Hyperreal Film Club sat down with Matt Farley, the creative dynamo who’s written, recorded, and released over 24,000 songs and written and starred in nearly 20 movies in the last 20 years to talk about the creative drive, Elaine May’s Ishtar, and the phone number thing.

Piper Meets a Psychopath Interview

We sat down with Nicole Elliott, co-director, star, and writer of Piper Meets a Psychopath, to chat about her writing process and In-N-Out versus Whataburger.

Justin NorrisJanuary 24, 2024Comment

Weird Wednesdays: Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs is jazz on film. It’s about the scenes you don’t show, baby.

Alamo Weird Wednesdayremus jacksonJanuary 23, 2024Venus in Furs, Jess Franco, James Darren, Klaus Kinski, Maria RohmComment

(Some of) The Best Movies about Movies

In honor of tonight’s screening of John Paizs’ Crime Wave, we’re running down some of our favorite movies about movies.

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This week in Austin community screenings.

Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldJanuary 19, 2024 Comment

Flesh and Blood: An Exhaustive List of Actors who Have Portrayed Both Dracula and Van Helsing

How many actors have had the range and the opportunity to play both Count Dracula and his non-immortal-still-eternal nemesis Van Helsing? The answer may surprise you.

Atrocity Exhibition: The Continuing Resonances of Peeping Tom

More than 80 years later, Peeping Tom is still frighteningly relevant to the modern world and surveillance culture.

ReviewsDaniel PembertonJanuary 17, 2024Peeping Tom, Psycho, Michael Powell, Karlheinz "Carl" BoehmComment

Vampires Rule: Daybreakers as a Post-COVID “Boring Apocalypse” Movie

How did a 2009 vampire movie become one of the most relevant films for the post-Covid era? And what can Daybreakers teach us about society and the way we treat those most susceptible to a pandemic? Most importantly, who let Willem DaFoe do a southern accent?

Personal, ReviewsSarah SchusterJanuary 16, 2024Daybreakers, Willem DaFoe, Sam NeillComment