Violet Crown Cinema, Downtown Austin's new arthouse theater, is opening on Friday. If you want a chance to scope out their digs before it officially opens, the Austin Film Society has a special event on Wednesday night that you'll want to check out. more ›

Filmmaker, AFS founder, and diehard Austinite Richard Linklater was in Cannes last month to present A Scanner Darkly, the rotoscoped film adaptation of Philip K Dick's dystopic novel, and Fast Food Nation, based on Eric Schlosser's expose on the fast food industry. At the same time, the Criterion Collection -- famous for its fabulous reissues of landmark films from the likes of Fellini, Kubrick, Godard, and Lang -- released a special edition of Dazed and... more ›