Podcasts by AFS Viewfinders Podcast
The AFS Viewfinders Podcast is the audio auxiliary of the AFS Viewfinders blog, created and edited by the Austin Film Society programming team. For more about AFS see austinfilm.org.
Further podcasts by Lars Nilsen
Podcast on the topic TV und Film
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Jazmyne Moreno&Lars Nilsen Discuss Art/Horror Classic DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS from 2020-10-28T14:00
AFS Lates host and programmer Jazmyne Moreno joined the AFS Discussion Club to talk about the vampy art/horror masterpiece DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS with Lars Nilsen and AFS members on Oct. 27, 2020...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Robert Rodriguez On The Mexico Trilogy from 2020-10-15T13:00
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Caroline Frick&Lars Nilsen Discuss Pre-Code Gem THREE ON A MATCH from 2020-10-08T11:00
Enjoy a lively discussion between UT Professor and founder/Executive Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image Dr. Caroline Frick and AFS Lead Programmer Lars Nilsen, with input from AFS...
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BOYS STATE Q&A with Filmmakers from 2020-08-14T15:00
Hear about the Austin-shot documentary BOYS STATE from the directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, subject Steven Garza, and AFS-supported filmmaker and BOYS STATE camera operator, Patrick Bres...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: The Art of The Trailer with Trevor Lee from 2020-07-09T14:00
On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders Podcast, trailer editor Trevor Lee discusses how his career developed and what he's learned about editing along the way. Hosted by AFS Lead Programmer...
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MISS JUNETEENTH Q&A with Channing Godfrey Peoples and Neil Creque Williams from 2020-06-19T16:00
AFS-supported filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples and her partner/producer Neil Creque Williams joined us to discuss her debut feature film, MISS JUNETEENTH, now playing in AFS's Virtual Cin...
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Vulcan Video: The Exit Interviews Episode 2, Famosos and Trivia Contest from 2020-04-27T13:00
Part of an ongoing series. Here, a number of former Vulcan Video employees recount some of the brushes with famous people they had at the late, lamented video rental store locations. Plus an ext...
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Vulcan Video: The Exit Interviews Episode 1, The Customer Is Not Always Right from 2020-04-17T14:00
This is the introduction for a series of very candid and, we hope, very entertaining interviews in which the former employees of the recently closed video store chain Vulcan Video tell all about...
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EUROPA, EUROPA Q&A with Agnieszka Holland from 2020-04-08T15:00
Back in October 2019, we were privileged to host director Agnieszka Holland for a screening of EUROPA, EUROPA (1990), her brilliant account of the absurdities of fascism and war. With Criterion ...
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Author&TV Movie Expert Amanda Reyes from 2020-04-02T10:00
On the latest AFS Viewfinders podcast we are joined by Amanda Reyes, who has certainly staked out a place as one of the preeminent expert on that much-maligned hybrid entertainment form, the Mad...
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Renée Zellweger and Richard Linklater talk JUDY at AFS Cinema, Dec. 3, 2019 from 2019-12-10T15:00
Renée Zellweger visited the Austin Film Society to talk to Richard Linklater take questions from the audience following a screening of her Judy Garland biopic JUDY.
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Bob Byington&Kaley Wheless on Independent Filmmaking from 2019-10-16T12:00
Filmmaker Bob Byington & actress/writer Kaley Wheless talk to AFS programmer Lars Nilsen about their new film, FRANCES FERGUSON in advance of its October 26th screening at AFS Cinema. Byingt...
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Biographer Noah Isenberg on the cursed career of Edgar G. Ulmer from 2019-10-01T13:00
AFS’ Lars Nilsen talks with Noah Isenberg, Chair of UT Austin’s Radio-Television-Film department and Edgar G. Ulmer biographer, about our upcoming series, The Films of Edgar G. U...
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Preview of Children of Abraham / Ibrahim: Films of the Middle East&Beyond Series from 2019-08-27T12:00
On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders podcast, Chale Nafus, former Director of Programming at AFS, talks with Karen Grumberg, Director of UT's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, about upco...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: American Genre Film Archive at 10 from 2019-08-19T18:00
On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders podcast, we visit with the team behind the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)—founders Joe Ziemba and Seba...
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X Frontman John Doe on Music, Film, and Life After LA from 2019-07-26T11:00
On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders podcast, we visit with John Doe, one of the leaders of the seminal Los Angeles punk band X. Since the band’s beginning in the late 1970s, Doe has carved ou...
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Discussion with Lulu Wang, director of THE FAREWELL from 2019-07-22T12:00
For this episode of AFS Viewfinders, AFS Head of Film and Creative Media Holly Herrick talks with director Lulu Wang at our sneak preview screening of her new feature film, THE FAREWELL. Based o...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Writer/Producer Zack Carlson Answers What Makes Action Movies Work, Discusses Films of Walter Hill from 2018-10-26T00:00
For this AFS Viewfinders podcast, Lars Nilsen speaks with Writer/Producer Zack Carlson (Destroy All Movies, DAMSEL, JUNGLE TRAP), who presents a Walter Hill series at AFS Cinema this No...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Filmmaker Michael Tully (DON'T LEAVE HOME) from 2018-09-06T00:00
On this episode of the AFS Viewfinders podcast, we visit with Austin-based filmmaker Michael Tully, whose new feature film DON'T LEAVE HOME opens September 14 at AFS Cinema. Tully has been imm...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: The Marx Brothers Pre-Code Treasure THE COCOANUTS from 2018-08-17T00:00
This month's ongoing Essential Cinema series, Pre-Code Treasures, looks back at the unique period of time (roughly 1929-34) before the implementation of the Hays Code. Each week, we're jo...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Filmmaker Andrew Bujalski (SUPPORT THE GIRLS) from 2018-08-15T00:00
Here at AFS, we're big fans of Austin-based filmmaker and so-called "Godfather of Mumblecore" Andrew Bujalski. Later this month, Bujalski's newest film SUPPORT THE GIRLS opens a...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: A Dialogue with Programmer/Author Kier-la Janisse from 2018-06-19T00:00
Austin Film Society Lead Programmer Lars Nilsen conducts a discussion with legendary film programmer, publisher and writer Kier-La Janisse. Janisse is owner/Artistic Director of Spectacular Optica...
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Programmers Holly Herrick&Lars Nilsen Talk AFS Cinema Programming for November and December from 2017-11-02T00:00
There's a lot going on at the Austin Film Society's AFS Cinema this November and December. Programmers Holly Herrick and Lars Nilsen have an informal talk about some of their favorite fil...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: AFS Programmers on the New AFS Cinema&The First Wave of Programming from 2017-05-12T00:00
Austin Film Society Programmers Lars Nilsen and Holly Herrick talk a bit about the opening of the new AFS Cinema and the first round of programming in the venue, including the Texas Christening ser...
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AFS Viewfinders: Lisa Hart Carroll on Acting and Actors from 2017-04-10T00:00
Last month we had a screening of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT in conjunction with the Star Of Texas Award presented to the film at the Texas Film Awards. We were fortunate enough to have Lisa Hart Carroll, ...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Alamo Drafthouse Programmer Tommy Swenson from 2016-06-10T00:00
Austin Film Society Programmer and Alamo Drafthouse Programmer talk about the programmer's job, upcoming series at Drafthouse and AFS, social responsibility and the 'pulp impulse.'
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Blake Edwards: A Discussion with Author Bryan Connolly from 2015-12-08T00:00
Bryan Connolly, author and co-programmer of the January Essential Cinema series LOVE IS A TWO WAY STREET: FILMS OF BLAKE EDWARDS & JULIE ANDREWS joins us to talk about Edwards' and Andrews...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Filmmaker Kat Candler from 2015-10-28T00:00
Filmmaker Kat Candler talks about the filmmaking life, choices, compromises, her working method and her new short THE RUSTED.
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Ana Lily Amirpour Austin Film Society Moviemaker Dialogue from 2015-07-09T00:00
On June 27 A GIRL WALKS HOME AT NIGHT filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour joined Lars Nilsen and AFS members for a one-hour Moviemaker Dialogue about writing, casting, directing and staying inspired while...
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AFS Viewfinders Special: Leonard Nimoy'70s Austin Radio Interview from 2015-02-27T00:00
Here is a rare tape of an Austin radio interview conducted with legendary actor Leonard Nimoy as he was in Austin to teach acting at St. Edwards University. Exact year and other details are unknown...
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Louis Black talks Cinema Culture in the'60s from 2015-01-02T00:00
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AFS Viewfinders Podcast: Louis Black talks Cinema Culture in the'60s from 2015-01-02T00:00
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