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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Resurrection - Bi Gan (China/France, 2025, 2h 43min)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, US“Bi Gan’s beautiful, sprawling, and boundary-pushing hallucination RESURRECTION makes the case that — as its title emphatically announces — the movies themselves have remarkable staying power. Even as some of the captains of the mainstream entertainment industry appear intent on killing off cinematic practices like moviegoing, moviemakers like Bi are keeping the art very much alive … A glorious and hugely ambitious work.”
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
“Starring a gamely shape-shifting Jackson Yee and a sublime Shu Qi, it leads us on a multi-part odyssey through a century’s worth of film history. Along the way, it riffs on BLADE RUNNER and HOLY MOTORS; pays homage to the Lumière brothers, F. W. Murnau, and Georges Méliès; and burrows deep into the landscape of genre, where spies, gangsters, spirits, monsters, and vampires hold the keys to cinema’s enduring popularity and its capacity for renewal.”
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker
With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan (LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KAILI BLUES) takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape.
In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across the twentieth century and to the end of time. Unfolding in five dazzlingly imagined chapters that encompass everything from silent-cinema expressionism to film noir to a delirious vampire love story shot in one of Bi’s signature long takes, RESURRECTION is a work of breathtaking imagination in which cinema is the ultimate portal to the unconscious mind.
-- 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 discussion3 attendees
I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE - Klára Tasovská
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, USDirected by Klára Tasovská
Czech Republic/Slovakia/Austria, 2024, 1h 30min, DCP, In Czech with English subtitles.
“A film that is both intimate and sprawling in vision, and a tremendous odyssey into the trials and tribulations of a true pioneer.”
—International Cinephile Society
“One of the rare documentaries about an artist that goes above and beyond to embody its subject’s creative spirit.”
—Variety
In the final decades of the Soviet Union, a queer female photographer breaks free from the constraints of a repressive regime on an inspiring journey to self‑acceptance. Drawn from the work and diaries of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková — dubbed “the Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia” — this documentary captures a life lived through pictures.
- write up by 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 discussions2 attendees
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 discussion7 attendees
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