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Austin Film Society
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The Austin Film Society began in 1985 with a group of friends getting together to watch films that weren't distributed to the general public. As word got out, that small group of cinephiles turned to hundreds and the Austin Film Society (AFS) was born, honoring classic and independent film with screenings in venues all over Austin.
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Austin Film Society
1901 East 51st Street
Austin, TX 78723Phone: (512) 322-0145 | Fax: (512) 322-5192 | Official Website
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Current Events
02/08/12 Doc Nights: SHOAH: Unseen Interviews
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Current Events
02/08/12 Doc Nights: SHOAH: Unseen Interviews
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar
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Past Events
02/01/12 FILM. FOOD. BREW. SLACKERWOOD.
Red's Porch01/29/12 2012 SAG Awards Viewing Party
The North Door | ND at 501 Studios11/22/11-
12/20/11New Essential Cinema: Comedies of Remarriage
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/08/11 AFS Essential Cinema Series: Caravaggio
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/01/11 AFS Essential Cinema Series: Prospero's Books
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/04/11 Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Peking Opera Blues
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/27/11 Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: The Killer
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz09/21/11 Austin Film Society Documentary Series: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz09/20/11 Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Song of the Exile
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/16/11 The Happy Poet
Austin Studios09/14/11 Austin Film Society Best of the Fests: My Sucky Teen Romance
Alamo Drafthouse Village09/13/11 Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Fallen Angels
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/06/11 Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Days of Being Wild
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/06/11 Essential Cinema: Days of Being Wild
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/02/11 Austin Film Society: Echotone
08/31/11 Slacker 2011
08/31/11 Slacker 2011
Paramount Theatre08/22/11 Best of the Fests: Daddy Longlegs
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz08/21/11 Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/13/11 Austin Premiere of Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D
The Long Center for the Performing Arts08/10/11 Head Start Cinema: Le Voyage Dans La Lune
08/08/11 Head Start Cinema: Le Voyage Dans La Lune
Austin Public Library - University Hills08/03/11 Head Start Cinema: LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE
08/01/11 Head Start Cinema: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Austin Public Library - University Hills07/27/11 Head Start Cinema: King Kong
07/27/11 Avant Cinema 4.5: RESISTANCE[S]
07/26/11 Essential Cinema: CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conforme)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar07/25/11 Head Start Cinema: Jason and the Argonauts
Austin Public Library - University Hills07/20/11 Head Start Cinema: The Spirit of the Beehive
07/19/11 Essential Cinema: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar07/18/11 Head Start Cinema: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Austin Public Library - University Hills07/13/11 Head Start Cinema: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
07/12/11 Essential Cinema: HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar07/11/11 Head Start Cinema: Back to the Future
Austin Public Library - University Hills07/07/11 Docs-in-Progress: BAT CITY USA
Austin Studios07/06/11 Head Start Cinema: Singin' in the Rain
07/05/11 Essential Cinema: EVEN THE RAIN (También la Lluvia)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/29/11 Head Start Cinema: The Wizard of Oz
06/29/11 AFS Avant Cinema 4.4: LIMITE
Austin Studios06/28/11 Essential Cinema: BLACK ORPHEUS (Orfeu Negro)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/28/11 Sneak Peek: LARRY CROWNE
06/27/11 Head Start Cinema: The Secret Garden
Austin Public Library - University Hills06/22/11 Head Start Cinema: Howl's Moving Castle
06/22/11 20th Anniversary Slacker Rolling Roadshow
Austin Studios06/21/11 Essential Cinema: FAREWELL (L’affaire Farewell)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/18/11 HAPPINESS IS Screening with Director Andrew Shapter
06/15/11 Best of the Fests: Ottawa International Animation Festival
Alamo Drafthouse Village06/15/11 Doc Series: PRESUMED GUILTY
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz06/14/11 Essential Cinema: RIFIFI (Du Rififi chez les homes)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/07/11 Essential Cinema: WHITE MATERIAL
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/06/11 Joe Swanberg’s SILVER BULLETS
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz05/17/11 Essential Cinema: Guelwaar
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar05/11/11 On the Bowery
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown05/11/11 Best of the Fests: Shotgun Stories
Alamo Drafthouse Village05/10/11 Essential Cinema: Camp De Thiaroye
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar05/03/11 Essential Cinema: Ceddo
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar04/27/11 Chel White's FEVER DREAMS/HEAVENLY NIGHTMARES
04/27/11 Criterion in Violet
04/26/11 Essential Cinema: Xala
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar04/22/11 The Whole Shootin' Match w/ Sonny Carl Davis
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04/22/11Best of the Fests: American: The Bill Hicks Story
Alamo Drafthouse Village03/29/11 AFS: Blood Relation
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/22/11 AFS: Closed Doors (Al abwab al Moghlaka)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/10/11 Texas Film Hall of Fame 2011
Austin Studios03/08/11 AFS: Passion (Bab el makam)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/01/11 AFS: What a Wonderful World
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/22/11 AFS: The White Meadows (Keshtzar Haye Sepid)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/17/11 AFS: 12 Angry Lebanese
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/16/11 Best of the Fests: Geoff Marslett's MARS
Alamo Drafthouse Village02/15/11 AFS: Bliss (Mutuluk)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/10/11 For the Love of Movies
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/19/11 AFS Best of the Fests: Tiny Furniture
Alamo Drafthouse Village01/12/11 AFS: My Perestroika
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/16/10 The Desperate Hours
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/09/10 Mrs. Miniver
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/02/10 Mrs. Miniver
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/26/10 Jezebel
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/25/10 Images of Russia: Virginity
University of Texas at Austin10/19/10-
11/16/10William Wyler's Desperate Hours: A Director's Drama
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/19/10 Counsellor at Law
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/13/10 The Kids Grow Up
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown09/14/10-
10/12/10Viva la Revolucion! Films of the Mexican Revolution
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown09/02/10 Sneak Peek: MACHETE
Paramount Theatre08/31/10 Mao's Last Dancer
Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills08/26/10 Quadrangle
Austin City Limits Studio08/24/10 The Toe Tactic
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/23/10 The Weather Underground
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/23/10 Sleep Dealer
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/07/10 South: Ernest Shankleton and the Endurance Exhibition
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/31/10 Siddhartha
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/28/10 Citizen Architect
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown07/24/10 Araya
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/17/10 The Trial
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/10/10 It Happened Here
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/10/10 It Happened Here
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/07/10 Predators
Paramount Theatre07/03/10 Killer of Sheep
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz07/01/10 William Burrough's Words of Advice
Austin Studios06/26/10 Rocco and his Brothers
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz06/22/10 Cyrus
06/19/10 The Edge of the World
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz06/18/10 Make Watch Love Film
Austin Studios06/13/10 ICG’s Emerging Cinematographer Award Winners
Austin Studios06/12/10 Co-Sponsored Benefit Party: NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY
The Highball06/12/10 Village of Dreams
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz06/10/10 Lovers of Hate
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar06/09/10 Doc Tour: THE OATH
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz06/05/10 I'm Going Home
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz04/29/10 Letters to Juliet
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar04/06/10 Essential Cinema:Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/30/10 Essential Cinema:Violence at Noon
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/23/10 Essential Cinema:The Pleasures of the Flesh
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar03/09/10 Essential Cinema:Japanese Summer, Double Suicide
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/24/10 Avant Cinema: Chick Strand Tribute
Austin Studios02/23/10 Essential Cinema: In the Realm of the Senses
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/16/10 Three Monkeys
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/09/10 Ajami
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/02/10 Son of a Lion
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/28/10 Film: SYZYGY
Austin Studios01/27/10 The Happy Poet
Austin Studios01/26/10 Laila's Birthday
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/20/10 Tattooed Under Fire
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown01/19/10 The Land
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/13/10 AFS New Member Mixer
Austin Studios01/12/10 Cairo Station
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/10/10-
01/14/10Harmony and Me
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/15/09 The Match Factory Girl
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/09/09 The Beaches of Agnes
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown12/08/09 Ariel
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/06/09 Screening: Dionysus in 69
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz12/03/09 The Young Victoria
Regal Metropolitan 1412/01/09 Shadows in Paradise
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/30/09 Austin Premiere of ME AND ORSON WELLES
Paramount Theatre11/24/09 The Man Without a Past
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/18/09 Film Is Stupid
Austin Studios11/17/09 Lights in the Dark
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/14/09 Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz10/13/09-
10/27/09Contemporary Greek Film Series
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/06/09 Censors, Drop Your Scissors!
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/04/09 Landscapes: Roger Beebe
09/14/09 The Horse Boy
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/10/09 Be Here to Love Me:
A Film About Towns Van Zandt
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz08/18/09 World Premiere of Mike Judge's EXTRACT
Paramount Theatre08/12/09 Special Screening: TREELESS MOUNTAIN
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/12/09 Special Screening: THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar04/23/09 AFS New Member Mixer
Austin Studios03/03/09 AFS Essential Cinema: CLOSE TO HOME (KAROV LA BAHIT)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/24/09 AFS Essential Cinema: KHAMOSH PANI: SILENT WATERS
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar02/18/09 AFS Documentary Tour: EXAMINED LIFE
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz02/17/09 AFS Essential Cinema: EARTH
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/20/09 AFS Essential Cinema: HI, MOM!
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar01/17/09 AFS Essential Cinema: GREETINGS
Austin Studios01/17/09-
01/21/09Big Screen Classics: THE GODFATHER
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown01/16/09 AFS Members Only Special Screening: RICHARD GARRIOTT'S SPACE MISSION
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum01/15/09 AFS Avant Cinema 2.5: No Drinks Allowed In Screening Room
Austin Studios01/15/09 AFS Co-Sponsored Screening: CRAWFORD
Alamo Drafthouse Village01/14/09 AFS Documentary Tour: STRANDED
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz01/14/09 Stranded
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown01/08/09 Narratives-In-Progress: DIG
Austin Studios12/23/08 AFS Essential Cinema: CAMA ADENTRO (LIVE-IN MAID)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/17/08 AFS Documentary Tour: IN A DREAM
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz12/16/08 AFS Essential Cinema: LA CIENAGA (THE SWAMP)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/10/08 AFS Avant Cinema 2.4: Animated Realities
Austin Studios12/09/08 AFS Essential Cinema: HERMANAS (SISTERS)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/02/08 AFS Essential Cinema: HISTORIAS MINIMAS (INTIMATE STORIES)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar12/01/08 AFS New Member Mixer
Austin Studios11/25/08 AFS Essential Cinema: BOMBÓN: EL PERRO
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/18/08 AFS Essential Cinema: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz11/11/08 AFS Essential Cinema: I MARRIED A WITCH
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar11/05/08 AFS Avant Cinema 2.3: In Honor of Conner
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz11/04/08 AFS Essential Cinema: NOTHING SACRED
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/29/08 AFS Movies in the Park: VIVA LES AMIS
Republic Square10/29/08 AFS Avant Cinema 2.2: Experimental Films from Romania
Austin Studios10/28/08 AFS Essential Cinema: DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/21/08 AFS Essential Cinema: DESIGN FOR LIVING
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/20/08 AFS Premiere: THE ORDER OF MYTHS
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/16/08 AFS Co-Sponsored Screening: WRITING BEHIND BARS
10/16/08 Writing Behind Bars: Film & Poetry
10/15/08 AFS Documentary Tour: CAN MR SMITH GET TO WASHINGTON ANYMORE?
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz10/14/08 Head-On (Gegen Die Wand)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/08/08 August Evening
Regal Arbor Cinema at Great Hills10/07/08 Love in Thoughts
(Was Nutzt die Liebe in Gedanken)
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar10/01/08 AFS Movies in the Park: DIRT ROAD TO PSYCHEDELIA
Republic Square09/29/08 Invisible Girlfriend
Austin Studios09/24/08 Avant Cinema 2.1: Jeanne Stern & Paul Tarrago
Austin Studios09/23/08 The Legend of Rita (Die Stille Nach Dem Schuss)
Alamo Drafthouse at The Ritz09/11/08 Narratives-In-Progress: HARMONY AND ME
Austin Studios09/09/08 Essential Cinema: YELLA
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar09/08/08 Narratives-In-Progress: UNTITLED JOHN BRYANT PROJECT
Austin Studios09/03/08 AFS Premiere: SURFER, DUDE
Paramount Theatre08/23/08 AFS Co-Sponsored Screening: SHOTGUN STORIES
Alamo Drafthouse - Downtown08/21/08 AFS Special Screening: 90 MILES
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/20/08 AFS Special Screening: TAKE OUT
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/20/08 AFS Special Screening: THE WATERMELON WOMAN
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar08/11/08 AFS Docs-in-Progress: WHAT MAKES KINKY RUN?
Austin Studios08/07/08 Navigating the Festival Circuit
Austin Studios07/29/08 The Band's Visit
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar07/22/08 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar07/21/08 St. Nick
Austin Studios07/15/08 6IXTYNIN9
Alamo Drafthouse - South Lamar
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Event Name: Austin Film Society Essential Cinema: Days of Being Wild
"Days of Being Wild and Confused (A-Team)"
Review posted by: Jay_Young from 1, Sep 07, 2011
"Days of Being Wild" is, according to the Austin Film Society, one of filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai's "most profound films." If so, I fear I missed the profoundness. It takes place in Hong Kong in the early... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: Days of Being Wild
"Entertained but confused"
Review posted by: Stephen_Reynolds from 1, Sep 07, 2011
The story of the Days of Being Wild is a tale of a playboy who wins and breaks womens hearts and leaves a trail of broken women who try to cope afterward. That is the impression that I got. The story... Expand
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Event Name: AFS Essential Cinema Series: Prospero's Books
"Excellent film"
Review posted by: christine_w from 1, Jul 28, 2011
I really enjoyed Certified Copy. The film was, I think, deliberately ambiguous, with neither the characters nor the viewers sure of the true nature of the relationship between the two main... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conforme)
"Confused but Interested"
Review posted by: Stephen_Reynolds from 1, Jul 27, 2011
Much of what I saw for the film Certified Copy left me wondering what is the relationship of these two characters. One is left to believe in the beginning of the film that they are complete strangers... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: CERTIFIED COPY (Copie conforme)
"Intriguing Film"
Review posted by: mmcclain from 1, Jul 26, 2011
I've never seen a movie quite like this one before. The style makes it very engaging and the characters are complex and genuinely human. A unique and unforgettable film.
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO
"What the film might have been."
Review posted by: lynnmariejohnson Jul 21, 2011
Trying to convey a sense of what the film might have been like through existing footage of contemporary actors performing key moments from the film, co-directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: EVEN THE RAIN (También la Lluvia)
"Water is Life"
Review posted by: Vicki M, A-Team from Austin, TX, Jul 05, 2011
The Austin Film Society always brings important, artistic films for screening. Even the Rain is no exception. It is layered, intelligent, and excellently cast and acted with professional actors and... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: EVEN THE RAIN (También la Lluvia)
"Engrossing, Moving, and Relentless (A-Team)"
Review posted by: Jay Y. from Austin, TX, Jul 05, 2011
Even the Rain is an incredibly moving, gripping story. Featuring Gael Garcia Bernal (from Motorcycle Diaries)as Sebastian, an ambitious filmmaker, Even the Rain is a movie within a movie. It follows... Expand
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Event Name: Essential Cinema: Guelwaar
"Topical Guelwaar"
Review posted by: roadwarrior from Austin, Tx, May 24, 2011
For a film that was written in 1993, I was amazed at the topical strength it had. My only neg on the film is that it was slow paced. The story was nonetheless fascinating and well worth the visit.... Expand
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Event Name: Laila's Birthday
"A Day in Palestine"
Review posted by: Kathy Judge from Austin, TX USA, Jan 27, 2010
This snapshot of a Palestinian taxi driver and his quest for a birthday cake & gift for his daughter revealed much about daily life there. The script did not shrink from the tragedy that occurs in the... Expand
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