“Veronica Mars” creator Rob Thomas will screen the unaired pilot of his short-lived cult hit, “Party Down,” following A Conversation in Film produced by the Austin Film Festival Wednesday at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. The University of... »
The Austin Film Society and Violet Crown Cinema will host a special screening of Richard Linklater’s “Bernie” on Thursday, April 26, the day before the film’s Austin release. The Violet Crown will screen the movie on all four of its screens and then ho... »
The Hill Country Conservancy and Alamo Drafthouse team Saturday evening for a rustic Rolling Roadshow. A nature walk and tour at the Nalle Bunny Run Preserve precedes a screening of “Cowboys and Aliens” under the stars at the beautiful setting in west ... »
Industry website The Wrap published today a list of 10 producers it predicts will change Hollywood in 2012. On the list, University of Texas graduates Jay and Mark Duplass. The brothers made a name with their first movie, "The Puffy Chair," in 2005 and... »
Ric Roman Waugh knows his way around the action genre. The writer-director of “Felon” spent years as a stuntman and coordinator before beginning a successful career as a filmmaker. The Los Angeles transplant recently finished shooting actioner “Snitch,... »
The Paramount Theatre tonight hosts a special sneak preview of locally-shot feature "Deep in the Heart." Jon Gries (Uncle Rico from "Napoleon Dynamite") portrays Texas businessman and philanthropist Richard Wallrath in the redemptive true-life tale fro... »
The Austin Film Festival has always prided itself as a champion of the screenwriter. Last spring, the festival produced the television show “On Story” to give viewers an inside look at some of the panels that are a key part of the annual event. The 12-... »
Stephen Jannise, the film program director for the Austin Film Festival, is attending the Sundance Film Festival and is filing reports. Here’s the latest, from Friday, 01/27. Over the course of 10 days at Sundance, certain films with great word of mout... »
Certain films are starting to pick up buzz at Sundance, sending audiences into a frenzy for tickets and distributors into bidding wars for the chance to put their name on the next “Like Crazy” or “Martha Marcy May Marlene.” But the films aren’t the onl... »
Stephen Jannise, the film program director for the Austin Film Festival, is attending the Sundance Film Festival and will be filing updates on the events for Austin360. Here’s the first of his reports: Every year, those who love independent filmmaking ... »
“The Artist,” a black-and-white silent charmer from France, won the 2011 Audience Award for out-of-competition feature at this year’s Austin Film Festival, organizers announced today. Written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist” is conside... »
Those beautiful morons are back. Austinite Mike Judge screened 16 minutes (the show's opening segment was missing) of the first 'Beavis and Butt-Head' episode for the home crown Sunday night at the Paramount Theatre as part of the Austin Film Festival.... »
“Shame” lived up to its pre-festival buzz late Saturday, as the harrowing movie starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mullgan played to a packed house at the Arbor. Fassbender plays a lonely sex addict who has the uncanny ability of being sexual with l... »
Johnny Depp, who was in town this weekend for the Austin Film Festival, showed up early Sunday morning at the Continental Club. Sporting the same hat that he wore to the Austin Film Festival Awards Luncheon, Depp took the stage with other musicians, in... »
Johnny Depp and filmmaker Bruce Robinson took the stage following the screening of “The Rum Diary” to take questions from a moderator and the audience. With the packed house hanging on his every word, Depp discussed his old friend Hunter S. Thompson, w... »
