Total Eclipse of the Texas
Read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News on the 2024 total solar eclipse in Texas, and why it mattered.
ANNAINAUSTIN...and Company! Blog
“Kia Boys” Car Thefts
Read Anna’s column in the Dallas Morning News about the “Kia Boys” car thefts.
Cypher @Nashville Film Festival
BY JASON T SPARKS There are two types of films they screen at the Nashville Film Festival, and as such, there are two types of films I regularly review: narrative films and documentaries. In...
Holdovers Review
Check out Anna’s Austin Film Festival review of “The Holdovers” at Get Reel Movies!
This World Is Not My Own @Nashville Film Festival
BY JASON T SPARKS Making a documentary about an individual, when said individual has already died, presents challenges, not that said challenges are impossible to overcome; ask Ken Burns. But it’s entirely possible that...
SLOW at Nashville Film Festival
BY JASON T. SPARKS To be a person who has seen movies, or has in fact lived in late 20th-early 21st century culture, is to have seen romantic comedies. They’ve been with us as...
GLORIA GAYNOR: I WILL SURVIVE @ NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
By Jason T. Sparks Documentaries about an individual, much like biopics, need to function like an essay from a Freshman Comp English class–both need a thesis, a claim that the director is making about...
La Chimera @ Nashville Film
By Jason T Sparks Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is predominantly in Italian, with about 5 to 10% of the dialogue in English; within the film, we learn a new and apparently unofficial Italian word...
NEXT-GEN SHORTS PROGRAM 1 @ NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
By Jason T Sparks For the sixth year in a row, I attended the Nashville Film Festival. The first screening was reminiscent of how an evening at the cinema used to begin, albeit before...
