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AFS Essentials: Les Amants Réguliers Tuesday, November 27thAlamo Drafthouse Downtown (320 E 6th Street)6:15pm, $4 / Free for AFS members[info]Poor Philippe Garrel. He has made dozens of films over the last four decades, but has been mostly overlooked stateside because he didn't fit into the tidy (or not so tidy) box of French New Wave, thereby not enjoying the peripheral fame brought about by heavy hitters such as Godard, Truffaut, or Melville. In truth,...

Once upon a time, in a gallery just up the road, 14 female artists gathered their works together to be viewed by all in the land. There were paintings, and photographs, moving images and performances. There were Indian princesses, people with bunny rabbit faces, and clowns riding rocket ships. Ok, enough cutesy talk, but you get our drift. Fairytales, myths, legends, and fantasies are celebrated in the new exhibit, Femme Fantastique, at Volitant Gallery. The...

One shining example of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's intuitive mastery of cinematic storytelling is his 1961 film, Une Femme est Une Femme (A Woman is a Woman). An art-house musical comedy that tells the tale of a bizarre love triangle entangling a Parisian stripper, her stick-in-the-mud lover, and his debonair best friend, Une Femme is Godard's tribute to the golden era of American musicals, when icons like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers danced across the silver screen.

European Cinema 1960-1972. Every Tuesday night at 7pm from June 7 through July 26, AFS screens a different film at the Downtown Drafthouse from directors such as Godard (A Bout de Souffle, Une Femme est Une Femme), Federico Fellini (Satyricon), and Andrei Tarkovsky (Solyaris).When purchased individually, tickets to each screening are $4 and can be ordered online. If you're interested in going to a few (and, if you ask us, you might as well see them all), consider becoming a member of the Austin Film Society. Annual membership is as cheap as $20, which gets you admission to all of the AFS cinema series. Austin Film Society Presents the Essential Cinema Series
Shattering the Narrative: European Cinema 1960-1972
Tuesdays at 7pm, 6/7 - 7/26
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown