Podcast:
Lars Nilsen,
Lead Film Programmer,
Austin Film Society,
February 2020 Programming
![]() Lead Film Programmer Lars Nilsen previews the Austin Film Society's February 2020 programming at the AFS Cinema. Highlights include the Sidney Poitier: The Measure of a Man series, featuring The Defiant Ones, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, Paris Blues, and Buck & The Preacher; the Love Stories series, featuring Y Tu Mamá También, Casablanca, the Before Trilogy, and Weekend; and the 20th Anniversary of Austin Studios series, featuring Idiocracy, Miss Congeniality, and Machete. Writer/director Susan Seidelman will attend the Feb. 8 screening of her drama Smithereens; Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin will preview his new Peter Pan retelling, Wendy, on Feb. 13; and Austin-based animator Don Hertzfeldt will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his short Rejected on Feb. 21. New releases include Becoming Leslie, the documentary about Austin icon Leslie Cochran, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Posted: Feb. 6, 2020. Web site: http://www.austinfilm.org/ |
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