Limited advance individual tickets* are now on-sale for 12 films that will be shown at the Paramount and State Theatre during the 2023 Austin Film Festival. The advance individual tickets* are $20 per ticket for Marquee Features and $15 for Retrospective showings. A Film Pass, good for all films shown over the festival’s eight days, is available for $80.
*Advance individual tickets are considered General Admission tickets and are not guaranteed admission to the film, pending Badge and Pass seating. Visit https://austinfilmfestival.com/about/aff-policies/ for more.
Saltburn
(USA/UK, 127 MIN)
Writer/Director: Emerald Fennell
Key Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe
Academy Award® winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Emerald Fennell.
Thursday October 26, 2023 7:00pm – 9:30pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
American Fiction
(USA, 117 MIN)
Writer/Director: Cord Jefferson
Key Cast: Jeffery Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erik Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae
Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Cord Jefferson.
Friday October 27, 2023 7:00pm – 9:17pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
The Holdovers
(USA, 133 MIN)
Writer: David Hemingson
Director: Alexander Payne
Key Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (PaulGiamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during the holiday break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them—a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa)—and with the school’s head cook,who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
Saturday October 28, 2023 4:30pm – 6:43pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
The Trap
(UK, 85 MIN)
Writer/Director: Lena Headey
Key Cast: Michelle Fairley, James Nelson Joyce
Content in her life of solitude, Michelle’s simple world is interrupted by a stranger seeking to belong.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Lena Headey.
Sunday October 29, 2023 7:15pm – 9:10pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Iron Man 3 presented by Shane Black
COSTUMES WELCOME, please no masks or fake weapons inside the Paramount.
(USA, 130)
Writer/Director: Shane Black
Key Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, James Badge Dale
Still traumatized by the events of “The Avengers,” Iron Man battles an enigmatic terrorist called the Mandarin with the help of Col. James Rhodes and a precocious young boy.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Shane Black.
Monday October 30, 2023 7:00pm – 9:40pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Aliens
Writer/Director: James Cameron
Key Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton
Ripley awakens 57 years later in this sequel to 1979’s “Alien,” returning to the space colony where she first encountered a hideous, reptilian creature. The film won Oscars for Sound and Visual Effects.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Noah Hawley.
Tuesday October 31, 2023 7:00pm – 9:40pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
The Bikeriders
(USA, 116 MIN)
Writer/Director: Jeff Nichols
Key Cast: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, with Norman Reedus
Inspired by Danny Lyon’s iconic book of photography, “The Bikeriders” immerses you in the look, feel, and sounds of the bare-knuckled, grease-covered subculture of ’60s motorcycle riders. Kathy (Comer), a strong-willed member of the Vandals who’s married to a wild, reckless bikerider named Benny (Butler), recounts the Vandals’ evolution over the course of a decade, beginning as a local club of outsiders united by good times, rumbling bikes, and respect for their strong, steady leader Johnny (Hardy). Over the years, Kathy tries her best to navigate her husband’s untamed nature and his allegiance to Johnny, with whom she feels she must compete for Benny’s attention. As life in the Vandals gets more dangerous, and the club threatens to become a more sinister gang, Kathy, Benny and Johnny are forced to make choices about their loyalty to the club and to each other.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Jeff Nichols.
Wednesday November 1, 2023 7:00pm – 9:36pm CDT
Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Shaft (1971) – Presented by Kevin Willmott
(USA, 98 MIN)
Writers: Ernest Tidyman, John D.F. Black
Director: Gordon Parks
Key Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Charles Cioffi
The mob wants Harlem back. But they’re gonna get Shaft. Richard Roundtree stars as New York City private detective John Shaft. He’s cool, tough and won’t back down to anybody. But when the New York Mafia wants to take over the Harlem drug trade, they kidnap local crime lord Bumpy Jonas’ (Moses Gunn) daughter. Now in the middle of a war between mobsters that’s ready to ignite a racial tinderbox, Jonas hires the one man tough enough to get his daughter back–John Shaft.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Kevin Willmott.
Friday October 27, 2023 9:15pm – 11:35pm CDT
State Theatre 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Not an Artist
(USA, 97 MIN)
Writer/Director: Alexi Pappas, Jeremy Teicher, Matt Walsh
Key Cast: Ciara Bravo, Cleopatra Coleman, Haley Joel Osment, Alexi Pappas, Matt Walsh, RZA
In an exclusive artist-in-residency program overseen by an enigmatic patron (RZA), artists in turmoil face a make-or-break ultimatum: unlock their full creative potential or abandon art forever. Yet, the unexpected intrusion of an outsider (Matt Walsh) jeopardizes the program’s delicate balance.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Matt Walsh, Jeremy Tiecher, Alexi Pappas.
Saturday October 28, 2023 3:00pm – 4:57pm CDT
State Theatre 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
The Problem with People
(Ireland, 103 MIN)
Writers: Paul Reiser, Wally Marzano-Lesnevich
Director: Chris Cottam
Key Cast: Colm Meaney, Paul Reiser, Des Keogh, LucianneMcEvoy, Sheila Flitton, Niall Buggy, Jane Levy
Two distant cousins who’ve never met – one in NYC, the other in the smallest town there is in Ireland – come together to finally put an end to a generations-long family feud. It doesn’t go well. The Problem With People, set in beautifully lush Irish countryside, is a heartwarming comedy about family, world peace … and sheep.
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Paul Reiser, Colm Meaney, Chris Cottam, Wally Marzano-Lesnevich.
Saturday October 28, 2023 6:00pm – 8:03pm CDT
State Theatre 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
All of Us Strangers
(UK, 105 MIN)
Writer/Director: Andrew Haigh
Key Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents, appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
Monday October 30, 2023 7:30pm – 9:15pm CDT
State Theatre 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
Day of the Fight
(USA, 107 MIN)
Writer/Director: Jack Huston
Key Cast: Michael C. Pitt, Nicolette Robinson, John Magaro, Anatol Yusef, Steve Buscemi, Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci
On the day of his first fight since leaving prison, a once celebrated boxer, takes a redemptive journey through his past and present. This is an underdog story built on introspection, self-sacrifice and forgiveness which asks the question: how far are we willing to go for the ones we love?
Scheduled to attend the film and participate in a Q&A immediately after the screening: Jack Huston, Noah Hawley.
Thursday November 2, 2023 7:00pm – 9:17pm CDT
State Theatre 719 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701
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