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Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater and Jesse Harris walk the red carpet at Austin Film Society's screening of "The Hottest State" Wednesday at the Paramount. Photos by Kristin B. If you can't view the Flash slideshow above, an alternate version appears after the jump.......

For those of you who were out seeing the rock n’ roll or slamming Beaujolais Nouveau last night, you may have missed Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater on the Colbert Report. With his trademark ease, Linklater went toe-to-toe with the satirical newsman, discussing his new movie Fast Food Nation and explaining the evils of international mega food corps. and the harm they perpetuate vis-à-vis the environment and public health. Linklater, while funny, didn’t try too hard,......

Director Richard Linklater flashes his horns before entering the premiere of his latest film. Linklater and Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser discuss the collaborative experience. Check out more Austinist photos from last night's premiere here.......

As you may have read months ago, Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation took Cannes by storm earlier this year. The hometown folks will get to see what all the hullaballo’s about next Tuesday, as the Austin Film Society and Sustainable Food Center will be screening the Austin premiere of the fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book. “We are thrilled to premiere this powerful film in Austin and to partner with Sustainable Food Center to......

In its month-long look at the finer points of the Polish film world, and under the banner of New Directions in Polish Film II, the Austin Polish Society and Austin Polish Film Festival proudly present another gem – one from the Lodz School film archives. Film school alumni Krzysztof Krause takes a critical look at the art world, examining a recognizable dichotomy as embodied by two artistically inclined characters in his 2004 film Moj......

The Austin Polish Society kicks of its 50 Years of the Lodz School festivities tonight with the regional premiere of Jestem, with director Dorota Kedzierzawska in attendance. This inaugural Austin Polish Film Festival will feature a month-long salute to some of Poland’s greatest film artists. The Alamo on South Lamar will play host to the festival, screening a selection from an acclaimed director of the Lodz School each Thursday for the month of October.......

Despite Austin's population of just 700,000, there is no denying that we have become the regional hub for film and television production in the Southwest. In fact, no fewer than six films shot in Austin will hit screens between now and Thanksgiving. If you're curious about what those trucks near the Capitol building and at Texas Chili Parlor have been up to, or simply want to support locally made films with your movie dollars......

It seems likely that many of you hold an academic interest in the rendering of Winona Ryder's bare, fruitful bosom by the team of artists who collaborated with Richard Linklater on his lauded animated release, A Scanner Darkly. If this accompanies a more overarching curiosity about the artistic process and a desire to see original sketches and prints by the same illustrators, you might wanna motorscooter over to the AAVA tonight for the opening of......

Today we introduce a new feature. With the ubiquity of all sorts of amazing content available on YouTube, we figured it was time to start mining the site for some great Austin-related video clips for your enjoyment. As with everything here at Austinist, if you have a great find you think we should share with our readers, please email us Alex Jones is at it again. He’s coming down from his sophomore major-movie appearance......

For real. We mean it this time. Last chance. Ever. Pressured by the score-loving, moviegoing public, the folks over at the Alamo are giving us one last chance to see Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly accompanied by a 30-minute live performance featuring the film’s composer Graham Reynolds. Reynolds is one of Austin’s busiest musicians; when he’s not composing film scores, he’s a member of the Golden Arm Trio, the resident composer for the Salvage Vanguard......

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......

“Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs...And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.” - Rush Limbaugh, October 5th 1995 Adapted by Austinite Richard Linklater from Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel, A Scanner Darkly is the story of......

On Wednesday night, The Austin Film Society hosted a little over one thousand friends to watch Austin's very own premiere of A Scanner Darkly at the Paramount Theatre, with a post-screen party down the street at The Austin Museum of Art. Originally written by Philip K. Dick in the late 1970’s and adapted to the screen by Austin's own Richard Linklater, A Scanner Darkly is an eerie, yet hilarious, film of drugs, paranoia and......

We know a good movie title when we read one. Just knowing that I Am A Sex Addict is meant in the driest, deadliest-of-deadpan, classic-Woody-Allen humor in every respect makes the draw that much more irresistible. Almost an. . .addiction, we might say. In a wonderfully original approach to autobiography, Caveh Zahedi's film weaves documentary, re-enactment narrative, behind-the-scenes glimpses and animation to create an unflinching look at his penchant for sex with prostitutes and his......

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......

It's a mad, mad workd out there, folks. And here's the proof... SFist commenters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest......

The lineup for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival has been announced, and Austinite Richard Linklater will have the distinction of being the first director to ever show films in the main competition and Un Certain Regard (the competition which grants money to the winner to enable French distribution). Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, based on the book by Eric Schlosser and starring Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Kris Kristofferson, will appear in the main competition.......

Austinist just got word that Richard Linklater’s film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly will be showing at The Paramount Theatre today, Wednesday, at 4pm. It was announced immediately after an Alamo Drafthouse screening this afternoon. It’s probably a badge/pass-holder only event, but, whatever. Do what you gotta do. A Scanner Darkly Wednesday, today, March 15 Paramount Theatre 4pm Badges, passes, or "do you know who I fucking am? DO YOU?"......

Austin is Taradise! And Lance and Sheryl split Congrats to Adlai McMahon, winner of our giveaway contest for Bloc Party's documentary/concert DVD, God Bless Bloc Party! The SXSW Music Festival roster expanded to over 1,100 this week, including such esteemed acts as Morrissey and The Flaming Lips Austinist photographer Matt Wright captures yet another amazing night shot in Austin, as well as some sexy shots of last week's Box Magazine issue release party. The......

There aren’t many movies made that can have a sequel a decade later and have the second offer stand-up to the original (much less a story about love and relationships). Off the tippy-top of our heads, we can think of Le Déclin de L'empire Américain /Les Invasions Barbares. But Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater did just that with the two beautiful films, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset. The two movies represent some of the best......

Austin Film Society turns 20 this year, and tonight they're celebrating by hosting a huge party at Austin Studios. Acclaimed director and Austinite Richard Linklater and AFS founders will be debuting the brand spankin' new 20th Anniversary Retrospective Book, which AFS members (current and new) will receive a copy of. The free soiree comes replete with music, Ruby's BBQ and drinks from Tito's Vodka and Dos Equis/Capitol Beverage. They'll also have a whole new......

M O N D A Y [ 9 ] [film/music] End of an Ear Presents "Shield Around the K," which "profiles the birth and growth of influential Olympia-based punk rock DIY record label K Records," at The Drafthouse Downtown (9:45pm) [info] [film] Super Happy Fun Monkeybash DX Gaiden (Vol. 2) at The Drafthouse Downtown (7pm) [info] [art] Check out the new gallery exhibit, Liz Ward's Aqueous, at Women and Their Work (All Day) [info] [music]......

The first annual Fantastic Fest kicks off this week, beginning on Thursday night and running through Sunday. Fantastic Fest is the brainchild of Paul Alvarado-Dykstra and Tim McCanlies, and they have compiled almost two dozen feature films from a dozen countries. This new festival showcases the latest live-action and animated films in the genres of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy. The lineup includes: previews of Jon Favreau’s Zathura, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City:......

George W. Bush: aka Dubya, President of the United States, dumbass Owen Wilson: aka The Butterscotch Stallion, screenwriter, asslicker, and Movie Star Wes Anderson: writer/director of the best films ever(Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, etc), wears cool glasses Sandra Bullock: aka Mrs. Jesse James, producer, movie star, nice gal Matthew McConaughey: bongo player, weed smoker, movie star, hunk Marcia Gay Harden: character actress, Oscar winner Benjamin McKenzie: stud, lead actor of the O.C. Molly Ivins: whip-smart......

Austin's burgeoning reputation as a major film hub is largely bolstered by massive blockbuster directors like Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez, but at the other end of the spectrum are a plethora of local filmmakers with a wealth of unexhibited talent. To showcase the latter works - which are often entertaining and sometimes briliant - is a local film collective called Screen Door. They exist largely to "showcase the talents of local and national......

Ahhhh. Summertime youth baseball. We remember those wonder years when we took on the Yankees after a highly improbable season engineered by our drunken curmudgeon of a coach who, nowadays, would probably be executed on the spot by rabid soccer moms for yelling at errr.. "motivating" us. (Not to mention supplying us with, gasp, beer after our final game!) Do you remember that time when he recruited his ex-girlfriend's daughter, Amanda, to pitch and......