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Sundance Prepares for an Avalanche of Austinites
Everyone knows that Richard Linklater is the keystone of Austin’s independent filmmaking community; he is also an integral More …
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“Texas Chainsaw 3D” — Slashing for Dollars, Past the Critics
Texas Chainsaw 3D wasn’t mentioned at the annual awards dinner of the New York Film Critics Circle last More …
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The Man from Orlando Arrives in Austin
If there was one film that I had really hoped that I could have included on my Roll More …
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The “Les Mis” Mess Misses
The best thing you can say about Les Miserables, now piling up box office numbers all over the More …
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Django – Chains and Guns
The key to a film’s success may be casting — yet the timing of a film’s release can More …
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Amour — Best Film of the Year
Beware of a film called Love. In Amour, Michael Haneke takes you to an end of life inevitability More …
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Roll Call: Best of Austin Film 2012
In my mind, 2010 was the year that the current independent filmmaking scene in Austin broke big with the More …
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Zero Dark Thirty — The Long Game
Zero Dark Thirty is a tautly constructed account of the pursuit by the US military of a terrorist More …
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Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed: On Dementia and Poetry
Does poetry run deeper than perception? Alan Berliner spent five years examining how Alzheimer’s disease closes down a More …
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Rust and Bone: An Elemental Taste for Jacques Audiard
Rust and Bone (France, 2011) is director Jacques Audiard’s sixth feature-length movie since 1994. It follows A Prophet, an More …
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Cinema Six Finally Screens in Austin!
In the opening scene of Cinema Six, Chad (Chris Doubek) resigns as manager of Stanton Family Cinemas, leaving Mason More …
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Giving Thanks for Lincoln
David Brooks wrote that Lincoln shows the nobility and malleability of politics, politics as the one change agent More …
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