The Assassin: A Visual Masterpiece
As a highly visual person, I’m always looking for films and experiences that are lovely and different for my eyes. The Assassin is a lovely, lyrical film. Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien has given us a...
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Fantastic Fest Photo Recap!
Earlier this month, Fantastic Fest wrapped up. You might have caught the column I wrote about Fantastic Fest films from Africa for the Austin America-Statesman, the Fantastic Debates pictures I published or the LAZER...
My Pictures of Elijah Wood and Keanu Reeves
Have recently been surprised that the Wikipedia pages for both Elijah Wood and Keanu Reeves are currently using my photos for their profiles. Both of the photos were taken at Fantastic Fest. You can...
Lazer Team Excitement
When I went to the Lazer Team world premiere at Fantastic Fest, I was lucky enough to be able to shoot some pictures on the red carpet, and to be there for the excitement...
Fantastic Fest 2015 in Storify
Whenever I’m at a festival, I tend to do a lot of social media posts about what’s going on. Here’s a collection of my social media posts about Fantastic Fest 2015! [View the story...
Sicario: A Difficult Film About a Difficult Topic
The lighting is harsh, the landscape is ugly, the body count is high and the performances are outstanding, even if the characters are difficult to like. Sicaro is an ugly film full of ugly...
Hanks: Fantastic Fest offers quick trip to other side of world
By Anna Hanks – Special to the American-Statesman Posted: 1:59 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 When I was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, my childhood friend Brian Hollis had...
Fever Dream of Fantastic Debates
Last night I had what must have been a fever dream, because there’s really no way that I was at a boxing match at Randy Palmer’s South Austin Gym, where Guillermo del Toro, Elijah...
Dark Whimsy at Fantastic Fest 2015
Some years at Fantastic Fest the lineup is all about torture porn, or science fiction, or damsel-in-distress films. This year Fantastic Fest is all about dark whimsy, and I couldn’t be more excited about...
Fantastic Fest Yearbook
Last year at Fantastic Fest, I did a small series of portraits that I thought might be like a Fantastic Fest Yearbook, as the festival is sort of like high school. So in the...
