Tag Archives: Texas film
On Giant’s Shoulders: New Cinema History Dissects Texas Tropes
'Giant' was meant to confront certain ugly implications about Texas, chiefly that it is perpetually big, bigoted and booming.
In 1956, America was ascendant, and Texas was America. Eleven years after the end of World War II, the greasy machinery of capitalism had conquered the country ...Read More
In the Austin of Andrew Bujalski’s Results, Aimlessness is a Sin
Independent writer/director Andrew Bujalski's newest film, "Results," follows a modern-day love triangle of three imperfect people grasping not just for romance...Read More
Zellner Brothers’ Latest Film Explores Fact as Fiction
In their newest film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter Austin filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner tell the tragic story of a troubled woman who mistakes the...Read More
Austin Filmmaker Bob Byington Has Crafted a Universe of Comic Misanthropy
Filmmaker Bob Byington’s white, male, shaggy-headed hipsters live to provoke....Read More
Mike Judge and the Duplass Bros. Bring Texas to TV
Austin filmmakers who were outsiders 20 years ago are now insiders who have forced the world to adapt to them....Read More
A Tex-Centric Guide to the Austin Film Festival
Don’t be fooled by the marquee names and Oscar buzz. Don’t be dazzled by the presence of famous directors like the Coen Brothers and Steve McQueen, or the g...Read More
The Texas Misstep
4 for Texas proves that no one knew how to ruin a good thing better than the Rat Pack....Read More
Gourds on Film: All The Labor Documents Austin Band’s Rise and Thrall
A new documentary about The Gourds, explains how a fledgling Austin band hit the virtual big-time via the file-sharing of a larkish cover song....Read More
Will Film Commission ‘Machete’ Rodriguez’s New Film?
Back in 2007, our esteemed Texas Legislature passed a law that allows the state to forbid tax incentives to any kind of film, TV or game project that contains &...Read More