My Column Was a Fantastic Fest “Moment.”
Other than the sharing of content, a letter to the editor and the occasional Reddit comment thread, I don’t really know who is reading my work. So even though I missed this when it...
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Victoria: A Wild Single-Shot Ride of a Film
I saw the film “Victoria” at Fantastic Fest this fall, only because the world-of-mouth at the festival was so good. I had originally dismissed the film as just a “trick” because of it having...
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...
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...
Check Out Today’s Statesman Column on Fantastic Fest and Africa!
Today’s column on Fantastic Fest ran in the online-only version of the Austin-American Statesman. Click here to read it. Since M3NSA Ansah told me the first “Coz Ov Moni” film was viewable on YouTube,...
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...
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...
It’s Robert Redford’s Birthday!
The always fabulous Robert Redford turns 79 today. In addition to his film roles and starting the Sundance Film Festival, we tend to take his enormous intellect and thoughtfulness for granted. If you’ve ever...
Child of God is on Netflix
Since Fantastic Fest 2013, the film that stuck with me most is James Franco’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 1973 work “Child of God.” Now “Child of God” is on Netflix. While it isn’t the...
