Terrible and beautiful, grief is a kind of madness.
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Orlando, My Political Biography is a documentary-of-sorts, exploring Virginia Woolf’s Orlando through interviews with transgender folks and narration from Preciado in the form of a letter to Virginia Woolf. Each of the 26 subjects introduces themselves as “playing the role of Orlando,” Orlando becoming a stand-in for transgender subjectivity. As Preciado is Orlando, so is he, so is she, so are they. The title of the film is instructive: it is Preciado’s “political biography”–not an autobiography, but a tapestry of trans experiences united under the concept of Orlando.
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In Afternoons of Solitude, Serra’s first feature-length documentary in over a decade, the Spanish filmmaker sets his sights on one of his country’s longest-standing cultural institutions: bullfighting.
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This week in Austin screenings 7/4-7/10.
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Tornado is a welcome return from writer-director John Maclean. Hopefully, his next feature will not take another decade for its release.
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Life of Chuck is a movie that is full of heart and leaves you feeling warm and hopeful.
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Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a combination sports/coming-of-age/cool-aging-guy-still-has-it movie, has a lot that works. But for all of F1’s many virtues, it’s more interesting to think about than it is enjoyable.
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28 Years Later is both a strong revival and promising start to the new trilogy.
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On one hand, we can applaud Anderson for trying to distance himself from the titular Wes Anderson aesthetic, but on the other more cynical hand it feels he’s trying too hard to break out of the niche he’s curated for himself over the past 30 years.
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This week in Austin screenings 6/27-7/3.
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In this first edition of Hyperreal’s two-part coverage, we look at the first two films of the series, Bay of Angels and Boom!, and how these films populate the cinematic Mediterranean.
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All things being equal, not dealing with heavy cans of fragile film reels seems ideal for people in the business of showing movies. So who still does this and why?
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As a parody of the highly popular Cabbage Patch Kids, the series featured gross-out and absurdist caricatures with a striking, cheeky charm that made them a marketing hit. As a result of this success, Topps Company would go dumpster diving in Hollywood, resulting in the 1987 film adaptation The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
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Scream for Help is a sleazy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud film that the Alamo Drafthouse programmer must’ve found at a VHS convention.
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A '70s low-budget vanity project from an aging cabaret performer sounds like something interminable and slack, released on 500 copies by some foreign VHS label, never to be seen again until showing up on Youtube in some smeary, unwatchable way. Remarkably, that's not at all what happened.
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It’s summer in Texas, so we all need something to do after we’ve been forced inside by the sun’s ultraviolet laser beams.
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This week in Austin screenings 6/20-6/26.
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Does the release of 28 Years Later have you itching to revisit the undead hits of yesteryear? Here’s 5 zombie movies you probably haven't seen yet.
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Karate Kid: Legends doesn’t live up to the hype created by its predecessors; however it’s still a decent watch for Karate Kid fans, especially those with children they’ve introduced to the franchise.
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