About us
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.
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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Mikey And Nicky - Elaine May (USA, 1976, 1h 59m)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, US“MIKEY AND NICKY is a vivid, almost sensually rancid slice of 1970s cinema, a movie in which you can almost taste the sweat in the air.”
—The Guardian
“Cassavetes and Falk blaze a trail of trouble that, in its emotional extremes, distills a lifetime of frustrated energy into a single night.”
—The New Yorker
“To watch Cassavetes and Falk inhabit their roles is to watch two great jazz musicians riffing on a score.”
—The New York Times
You probably know Elaine May as a legend of comedic writing and direction but MIKEY AND NICKY, outside of some witty dialogue, is a surprisingly tragic story of friendship and betrayal between two old pals, played by real-life buddies Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. Haunting, harrowing, and unforgettable. New 4K restoration.-- 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/E82QUNJrhHMeetup 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 discussion
12 attendees
The Odyssey - Christopher Nolan (70mm) (UK, 2026, 2h 52m)
Galaxy Highland Theaters, 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd., Austin, TX, USThis is a 70mm (wide-screen)
****The tickets for good seats will sell out in next few days, therefore, please make sure to plan ahead.*****
Christopher Nolan directs Homer's epic saga.
“Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a colossal origin-myth story of postwar disillusion and a loss of innocence witnessed by the dead,” wrote the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, ahead of the reviews embargo lifting next Wednesday and next Friday’s worldwide release.
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/E82QUNJrhHMeetup 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 discussion
11 attendees
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (USSR, 1966, 3h 3m)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, USWith his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Threading together several self-contained episodes, the filmmaker traces the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of fifteenth-century Russian life, vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the age: a primitive hot-air balloon takes to the sky, snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans celebrate the midsummer solstice, a young man oversees the casting of a gigantic bell.
Appearing here in Andrei Tarkovsky’s preferred 183-minute cut, as well as the version that was originally censored by Soviet authorities, ANDREI RUBLEV is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.-- 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/E82QUNJrhHMeetup 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 discussion
6 attendees
Full Moon In Paris - Eric Rohmer (France, 1984, 1h 41m)
AFS Cinema, 6226 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX, US“Glamorous, in a witty, wildly offbeat way. FULL MOON IN PARIS is an account of balancing the demands of autonomy, hipness, and having a love life.”
—Film Comment
“FULL MOON IN PARIS is full of small grace notes that accumulate and transcend simple drama to become something far more profound.”
—In Review
In the fourth entry in Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle, Pascale Ogier finds life in the suburbs with her boyfriend (Tchéky Karyo) impossible, yet the possibility of life in Paris — without him — unimaginable. Co‑starring Fabrice Luchini as her motormouth confidant and featuring the electropop of Elli & Jacno, the film finds Rohmer in a different rhythm, but one painfully familiar to anyone who has ever been young, restless, and indecisive.-- 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/E82QUNJrhHMeetup 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 discussion
8 attendees
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