WHO: Austin Film Society
WHAT: AFS Programming & Events
WHEN: July 2014
WHERE: AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)
and AFS Screening Room (1901 E. 51st St.)
WEB: http://www.austinfilm.org/calendar
About Austin Film Society
The Austin Film Society empowers our community to make, watch and love film and creative media. Through Austin Studios, which AFS opened in 2000 through a lease with the City of Austin, AFS attracts film development and production to Austin and Texas. Gala film premieres and the annual Texas Film Awards raise funds and awareness of the impact of film on economy and community. Austin Film Society is ranked among the top film centers in the country and recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and Directors Guild of America. For more information on the Austin Film Society, visit www.austinfilm.org.
(AUSTIN, TX)—The Austin Film Society is pleased to announce upcoming programming.
The month’s schedule to date is as follows:
JULY 2014
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Essential Cinema: Liv and Ingmar $8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere Members A disturbed woman is befriended and then replaced in power by a clever nurse. |
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Arthouse $10 General Admission // $8 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $5 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere Members Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order. Newly restored 35mm print. |
| Special Event EGGSHELLS with Tobe Hooper & Louis Black in attendance Tuesday, July 8, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd) $10 General Admission // $8 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $5 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere Members Tobe Hooper’s EGGSHELLS is a highly interesting time-capsule of Austin in 1968, not only because of its many recognizable locations and preponderance of Aquarian personal style choices, but in the very use of the camera, in the cutting and in Hooper’s decision to make an art film along European lines in Texas, of all places. Hooper became more polished as the years went on, of course, but the anarchic spirit of his first film lives on in his work and in the film culture of Austin, which no longer seems like such an improbable place for art film. EGGSHELLS presents a cross-section of the spiritual and emotional fabric of its time, and the style in which it is presented would be at home alongside the works of Godard and Antonioni except for a native guilelessness, an impatience with pretension and a sense of cool that is all Austin. |
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Essential Cinema: Liv and Ingmar PASSION OF ANNA Thursday, July 10, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersA man and a woman who have recently lost their spouses momentarily find solace in one another until complications arise. |
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Arthouse AFS Shorts Night Friday, July 11, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$10 General Admission // Free for all AFS MembersTexas filmmakers are taking over the world with their short films! AFS Shorts Night features six incredible short films that were recipients of the Austin Film Society’s AFS Grant in 2012 and 2013. This is a FREE Member Friday screening — FREE to all AFS members. |
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New Release MANAKAMANA Tuesday, July 15, 8 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$10 General Admission // $8 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $5 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere MembersUnique documentary about a cable car that runs from the base of a mountain in Nepal to a high temple in the clouds. The camera documents the passage up and down the mountain of several parties of pilgrims. Sponsored by Precision Camera & Video. |
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Doc Nights SWEET DREAMS Wednesday, July 16, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersDrumming and ice cream bring Tutsi and Hutu women together in Rwanda to heal the loss and pain of 1994’s genocidal war. Sponsored by Precision Camera & Video. |
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Essential Cinema: Liv and Ingmar CRIES AND WHISPERS Thursday, July 17, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersGathering at the bedside of a dying sister, two women allow old pains and animosities to resurface. |
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Special Screening ROAD TO AUSTIN Friday, July 18, 8 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$15 General Admission // $13 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $10 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere MembersAll-star Austin music concert film honoring Stephen Bruton. |
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Savage Gold UP ALL NIGHT FLIGHT Saturday, July 19, 8 PM Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In (1901 E. 51st St)Drive-In Cars: $60 Non Members // $50 Members Pedestrian Walkups: $20 non members // $18 AFS WATCH members // $15 AFS MAKE, LOVE AFS members An all-night marathon of video oddities held at the Blue Starlite Drive In. |
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Texas Independent Film Network TOMMY HANCOCK: WEST TEXAS MUSE Sunday, July 20, 2 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersA documentary about Texas musician and philosopher Tommy Hancock, his life, spiritual quest & music. |
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History of Television TV NOIR Monday, July 21, 8 PM AFS Screening Room (1901 E. 51st St)Free for AllThis free History Of Television show looks at some of the best noir-influenced crime shows of the ’50s and ’60s. |
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Essential Cinema: Liv and Ingmar SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE Thursday, July 24, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersThe second decade of a marriage is explored with the husband and wife contemplating staying together, separating, divorcing, being lovers or friends, or in no relationship whatsoever. |
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AFS/Breaking Salsa Co-Sponsorship SHOOT TO LIVE Friday, July 25, 8 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$15 General Admission // $12 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $10 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere MembersShowcasing 30 years of dance culture through videos and photos, from 80s breakin’ to Bboy City on to Texas Salsa Congress and now Breaking Salsa. Featuring Romeo Navarro’s new film AN ARMY OF SHOOTERS. |
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The Sepia Screen VANITIES/DIRTY GERTIE/SOULS OF SIN Sunday, July 27, 2 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$10 General Admission // $8 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $5 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere MembersThe first in a new program spotlighting films made in the ’40s and ’50s for black audiences, presented in 35mm. |
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Special Screening TWO STEP with Director Alex R. Johnson & Actress Beth Broderick in attendance Tuesday, July 29, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd)$10 General Admission // $8 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // $5 AFS LOVE Members // Free for AFS Premiere MembersThe lives of James, a directionless college dropout, and Webb, a career criminal with his back against the wall, violently collide. Director Alex R. Johnson, actress Beth Broderick and composer Andrew Kenny in attendance. |
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Avant Cinema Curtis Harrington Shorts Wednesday, July 30, 7:30 PM AFS Screening Room (1901 E. 51st St)$8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere MembersSix short films by experimental filmmaker Curtis Harrington: Fragment of Seeking, The Wormwood Star, Fall of the House of Usher, Picnic, On The Edge, The Assignation. |
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Essential Cinema: Liv and Ingmar LIV AND INGMAR Thursday, July 31, 7:30 PM AFS at the Marchesa (6226 Middle Fiskville Rd) $8 General Admission // $5 AFS MAKE & WATCH Members // Free for AFS LOVE & Premiere Members A study of the fruitful, tormented relationship of the actress Liv Ullman with director Ingmar Bergman. Sponsored by Precision Camera & Video.
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