What we’re about
Watching good movies in the Austin area and hanging out before/after the screenings at bars/restaurants close to the venues.
This group's purpose is to cultivate a community of folks who share the love of Cinema.
We have an active Discord Server to connect with our members: https://discord.gg/E82QUNJrhH
Any attempt to define "arthouse" movies, as it usually goes with definitions, is doomed to fail. A rough demarcation, nevertheless, could do some good. I see the artistic value of a cinematic production in its conscious or unconsciousness attempt for reaching emotional/intellectual depth, to defamiliarize the familiar, to bring out some unknown to the view, to shake and enrich our existence. As such, the attempt is more important than the result and the failures valuable in one way or another.
We do not need to watch Godard backwards to count as an "arthouse movie" club, although that sounds fun. But we won't watch the 537th remake of Superman or James Bond here. Everyone else does. Let's do something more interesting.
You can contact the Organizer by text: 804-573-9168 for any feedback or questions.
Meetup structure:
- Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening.
- Event Host will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening
- The group will proceed to the designated hangout space for the discussion.
Upcoming events
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LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL- dir: Philippe Garrel (France, 1975, 1h 12 mins)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, US“Garrel’s most ecstatically impressionistic film. It may also be his best — we’ll let you know as soon as the trembling stops.”
—Little White Lies
Scored by krautrockers Ash Ra Tempel, this largely wordless meditation on darkness features Nico, Dominique Sanda (THE CONFORMIST), and Rolling Stones-muse Anita Pallenberg. Newly restored.
-- Write-up by the Austin Film Society
Tickets can be bought online at this link.
Meetup Ratings:
Rating system on meetup is meant for rating our meetup event and not the quality of the movie. We hope you give us best possible rating as this makes us possible to attract more cinema-lovers like you! Thanks!
We also have a discord chat server for our community. You may join it here: https://discord.gg/E82QUNJrhH
Meetup Structure:
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )
2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.
3: The group will decide where to go for post-screening discussion6 attendees
Cronos - Del Toro (Mexico, 1992, 1h 32min)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, US“CRONOS is an exploded view of my brain.”
—Guillermo del Toro
“Edgar Allan Poe with a sense of humor, del Toro not only has fun mixing genres, he knows how to convey his enjoyment and make the result distinctly his own.”
—The Los Angeles Times
Guillermo del Toro’s first feature is a thrilling amalgam of science fiction and philosophy. The title refers to a device that can give the bearer immortality. When an antiques dealer finds the strange gadget, his life changes, but who can say if it is for the better or not. A kind of skeleton key to del Toro’s later work and a very entertaining film on its own merits. New 4K restoration.
-- Write-up by the Austin Film Society
Film Trailer
Tickets can be bought online at this link.
Meetup Ratings:
Rating system on meetup is meant for rating our meetup event and not the quality of the movie. We hope you give us best possible rating as this makes us possible to attract more cinema-lovers like you! Thanks!
We also have a discord chat server for our community. You may join it here: https://discord.gg/E82QUNJrhH
Meetup Structure:
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )
2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.
3: The group will decide where to go for post-screening discussion10 attendees
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG - Jacques Demy
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, USDirected by Jacques Demy
France, 1964, 1h 32min, DCP, In French with English subtitles.
“Could this be the saddest musical of all time? One of the greatest films ever made in any genre … and never not breathtaking.”
—Vulture
“Rarely, at least since the end of the silent era, have the movies produced such a stirring, unabashedly sincere display of pure feeling, represented in color, movement, and song. Even the most cynical viewer, if he’s not careful, may find himself overwhelmed.”
—Time Out
A young French woman (Catherine Deneuve in a star-making role) falls for a young mechanic about to be drafted to war in this colorful romantic musical directed by Jacques Demy with a score by Michel Legrand.
- write up by Austin Film Society
Ticket
Trailer
Discussion venue AFTER the screeningTigress
Meetup Structure
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )
2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.
3: The group will proceed to the designated hangout space for the discussion.8 attendees
I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar - dir: Garrel (France, 1991, 1h 38 mins, 35mm)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, USDedicated to Nico, Philippe Garrel’s I CAN NO LONGER HEAR THE GUITAR is quite “possibly his masterpiece” (Olivier Assayas). The film follows couple Marianne (Johanna ter Steege, THE VANISHING) and Gerard (Benoît Régent) as they fall in and out of love with each other — and heroin. An intensely autobiographical work, Garrel and co-scribes Marc Cholodenko and Jean-François Goyet craft a story that is at once “elusive and haunting” (The New York Times). In 35mm.
-- Write-up by the Austin Film Society
Tickets can be bought online at this link.
Meetup Ratings:
Rating system on meetup is meant for rating our meetup event and not the quality of the movie. We hope you give us best possible rating as this makes us possible to attract more cinema-lovers like you! Thanks!
We also have a discord chat server for our community. You may join it here: https://discord.gg/E82QUNJrhH
Meetup Structure:
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )
2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.
3: The group will decide where to go for post-screening discussion1 attendee
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