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PICK OF THE WEEK

9 SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR

AFS · Film · Sun, Sep 6 · 7:00 PM

Frozen gray tableaux of bureaucratic nightmares, deadpan bodies, and absurdist human drift.

Artistic Merit. Roy Andersson builds the film out of fixed, gray tableaux that feel like bureaucratic nightmares frozen in plaster. The staging, the deadpan performances, and the controlled composition show rare technical discipline, and the comic timing…

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9  Subculture Lit - Ice

AlienatedMajesty · Sun, Sep 6 · 7:00 PM · Books

Kavan’s ice swallows a world in a fever dream of obsessive addiction.

8  The New Yorker Weekly Short Story Club (Free Copies, First Hour for Reading) - This Week's Story

NewYorkerMeetup · Tue, Sep 1 · 7:00 PM · Books

Calling all literary fiction lovers of the greater Austin Area! Join our weekly

8  MYSTERIOUS SKIN

AFS · Wed, Sep 2 · 8:30 PM · Film

Gregg Araki’s unflinching film turns childhood trauma into a quiet, devastating alien abduction.

8  AMERICAN DOCTOR

AFS · Fri, Sep 4 · 2:30 PM · +2 more · Film

A lean, urgent war doc on Gaza medics, close to the operating table.

8  GANDAHAR

AFS · Fri, Sep 4 · 8:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Laloux’s pastel alien landscapes weave a vivid anti-colonial fable in French animation.

7  MY SASSY GIRL

AFS · Mon, Aug 31 · 4:30 PM · +1 more · Film

A romantic comedy anchored by Jun Ji-hyun’s kinetic, unpredictable performance.

7  LATE FAME

AFS · Mon, Aug 31 · 4:30 PM · +3 more · Film

Willem Dafoe’s restrained poet finds no redemption in this dry, static character study.

7  Tiny Words - Novel 11, Book 18

AlienatedMajesty · Mon, Aug 31 · 7:00 PM · Books

A civil servant lowers his expectations until his

7  Art Sex Magic - A Horse at Night

AlienatedMajesty · Mon, Aug 31 · 7:00 PM · Books

Fragmented diary of how fiction colonizes a writer's inner life.