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Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."

Summer TV used to mean boring reruns, but these days, cable takes advantage of the networks' hibernation to launch their own season of special movie events and series. Belinda Acosta offers a list of some of the upcoming "must check out" programs.

St. Stephen's kids make movie, Northcross 6 set to close.

An interview with Sissy Spacek, inducted into the first annual Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9.

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

While writer-performer Wayne Alan Brenner has a quirky style and indisputable stage presence, his new show Full Mental Jacket is so self-referential that, like an overanalyzed relationship, it talks itself to some semblance of death.

Be there or Be Cher.

The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.

Script-wise, Pride's Crossing is PBS-esque : one of those wistful period pieces about a lively old woman looking back on her privileged youth : but throw a bunch of charming actors into the mix and hip director Sarah Richardson, and you get a show happily at odds with this Masterpiece Theatre-worthy tale.

An extraordinary new project for Deborah Hay and his week in Louisville that was all about Austin.

Prior to a retrospective of his documentaries at SXSWFilm, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on a career spent as a fly on the wall.

Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball

A profile of Austin's longest-running musical parody, the Uranium Savages.

Housing, ACC, and Spooner.

Local screenwriter Aubrey Horton offers a comedy screenwriting workshop; aGLIFF screenplay competition winners announced (and more screenplay madness); Kevin Costner to be in attendance at the premiere of For the Love of the Game, the Alamo's Cannibal Film Series; and more news from the Austin film scene.

Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.

Flipping Your Whigs

Seasons in the Sun

My Lunch With Anna Quindlen

Film Folios and Screen Prints

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be