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/eGnzMhbe
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 (4+)
See all- A WOMAN OF TASTE PRESENTS: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (dir: PETER WEIR)Hyperreal Film Club, Austin, TX
Directed by Peter Weir
Australia, 1975, 1h 55min, in English"What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream."
Considered an essential film of 70s Australian New Wave, Picnic at Hanging Rock weaves together folklore, natural history, dreams, and nightmares to illustrate how innocence can shatter without reason. Based on Joan Lindsay's novel, the story speaks in hushed tones of societal pressures and repression young girls face while attempting to make sense of the mystical and haunting power of Hanging Rock.
- write up by A Woman of Taste/Jenny McKeown/Hyperreal Film Club
Venue Details: Doors open at 7pm. There is a small parking lot next to the pickleball courts. There is also street parking available. Normal movie theater concessions available for purchase.
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Discussion venue AFTER the screening High NoonMeetup Structure
1: Meet at the theater with other members prior to the screening. We’ll be near the back bench in front of the bar.
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. - CRASH - DAVID CRONENBERGAFS Cinema, Austin, TX
Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada/USA, 1996, 1h 40min, 35mm“Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Take out the cars, the scars, the crutches and scabs and wounds, and substitute the usual props of sex films, and you’d have a porno movie. But CRASH is anything but pornographic: It’s about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses.”
—Roger EbertDavid Cronenberg’s visceral, bizarre, and sexually transgressive adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel about people who are erotically obsessed with car crashes and their aftermath screens with a special appearance by author Violet Lucca at the 7/24 show. Copies of Lucca’s book Cronenberg: Clinical Trials will be on sale at a special First Light Books pop-up in our lobby. In 35mm.
- write up by Austin Film Society
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Discussion venue AFTER the screening Yellow RangerMeetup 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. - THE HIDDEN FORTRESS - AKIRA KUROSAWAAFS Cinema, Austin, TX
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Japan, 1958, 2h 19min, DCP, In Japanese with English subtitles
Akira Kurosawa’s adventure epic may be best known today as the blueprint for George Lucas’ STAR WARS, but there’s far more to the film than that. This is masterful storytelling with exciting action and a rousing performance from Toshiro Mifune as an undercover general. One of the master’s greatest works.
- write up by Austin Film Society
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Discussion venue AFTER the screening Easy TigerMeetup 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.
