Interview:
Lars Nilsen,
Lead Film Programmer,
Jazmyne Moreno,
Associate Programmer,
Austin Film Society,
December 2022 Programming
The Austin Film Society celebrates the yuletide season in December 2022 with its "Home for the Holidays" series, which features The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Thin Man, and Eyes Wide Shut. The AFS Cinema will also host the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers series "Fred and Ginger, with Follow the Fleet, Swing Time, and Shall We Dance, and conclude the "England Made Me: Six Films with The Austin Chronicle's Richard Whittaker" with My Beautiful Laundrette and Withnail & I. The Infernal Affairs Trilogy, which inspired the Martin Scorsese remake The Departed, will screen over the course of the month. The Austin Film Society also partners with Contemporary Austin to show Trouble and Surname Viet Given Name Nam in conjunction with the latter's exhibition "In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy." The Austin-shot character study Buck Alamo will screen Dec. 18 with director Ben Epstein and star Sonny Carl Davis in attendance. New releases include The Eternal Daughter and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Documentaries include Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power and the SXSW award-winning Bad Axe. Retrospective and newly restored screenings include 9 to 5, Fantasia, The Flowers of Shanghai, Howl's Moving Castle, Sorcerer, and Wild Strawberries. The Queer Cinema: Lost & Found series brings Andy Milligan's Fleshpot on 42nd Street to the AFS Cinema. New Rose Hotel, Zoo Zero, and What's Up Connection round out the Lates.
Posted: December 1, 2022. Web site: http://www.austinfilm.org/ |
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