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PICK OF THE WEEK

10 World Wide What Book Club - Season of Migration to the North

FirstLight · Books · Mon, Sep 14 · 7:00 PM

Salih’s novel of colonial desire ends not in return but drowning.

Artistic Merit. , 10/10. Tayeb Salih’s prose is lean, exact, and relentlessly controlled, with a narrator who can turn a village memory into a knife-edge scene, then widen it into something structurally larger without losing pressure.

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9  VAGABOND

AFS · Fri, Sep 18 · 7:15 PM · +1 more · Film

Varda’s unsentimental portrait of a drifter’s hard winter in rural France.

9  REMAKE

AFS · Sun, Sep 20 · 6:00 PM · Film

McElwee’s decades of home video collide grief, Hollywood, and the camera’s awkward role.

8  THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

AFS · Mon, Sep 14 · 4:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spare samurai interrogation drama builds tension through severe control.

8  THE HOLE

AFS · Mon, Sep 14 · 7:00 PM · Film

Isolation and decay meet surreal musical outbursts in Ts

8  MYSTERIOUS SKIN

AFS · Mon, Sep 14 · 7:45 PM · +1 more · Film

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

8  AMERICAN DOCTOR

AFS · Tue, Sep 15 · 4:00 PM · +2 more · Film

A tense doc on Gaza medicine where operating rooms hold all the argument.

8  TAXI

AFS · Tue, Sep 15 · 7:30 PM · +2 more · Film

Panahi’s cab becomes a moving stage for improvised, politically charged conversations.

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

NewYorkerMeetup · Tue, Sep 15 · 7:00 PM · Books

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

8  REPO MAN

AFS · Wed, Sep 16 · 7:45 PM · Film

Alex Cox’s punk repossession noir turns ugly L.A. into a cosmic joke.