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PICK OF THE WEEK

9 REMAKE

AFS · Film · Thu, Sep 24 · 5:30 PM

Decades of home footage collide with Hollywood fiction in McElwee's structural memoir.

🎭 Artistic Merit, Ross McElwee’s Remake is built from decades of footage, and that accumulation gives it unusual structural force; the film does not merely recount loss, it lets home-video fragments, self-reflection, and the stalled…

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9  VAGABOND

AFS · Thu, Sep 24 · 8:15 PM · Film

Varda’s unsentimental portrait of a drifter’s cold, hard winter.

8  THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

AFS · Mon, Sep 21 · 4:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s feudal

8  LA LA LAND

Paramount · Mon, Sep 21 · 7:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Chazelle's musical turns gridlock into grace, then lets gravity win.

8  BLOOD SIMPLE

AFS · Mon, Sep 21 · 7:45 PM · Film

Coens' debut: a lean, airless Texas noir where gunfire becomes light.

8  NO BEARS

AFS · Tue, Sep 22 · 7:30 PM · +1 more · Film

Panahi’s borderland chamber piece splits between remote filmmaking and village confrontation

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

NewYorkerMeetup · Tue, Sep 22 · 7:00 PM · Books

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

8  RAISING ARIZONA

AFS · Wed, Sep 23 · 3:45 PM · +1 more · Film

Coen brothers' debut: a screaming baby, a desert glide, and slapstick mayhem.

8  SHERMAN’S MARCH

AFS · Wed, Sep 23 · 6:00 PM · Film

A shaggy, self-reflective 1980s road movie about obsession and Southern memory.

8  MILLER’S CROSSING

AFS · Thu, Sep 24 · 7:30 PM · Film

Coen brothers' 1990 gangster puzzle: loyalty, hats, and double-crosses in winter light.