AUSTIN, Texas - It'll be a busy fall for Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater.

One of Linklater's personal projects is a film series called "Jewels in the Wasteland."

The next installment begins in a couple of weeks at the Austin Film Society's newly renovated cinema. Each week, Linklater will introduce and discuss some of his favorite films from the late 1980's. Drugstore Cowboy, Colors and John Carpenter's They Live are a few that made the cut.

"The real jewels are the films that maybe got forgotten or people don't rate highly at all that we're trying to shine a spotlight on and 'say check out this film. Can you believe this got made?' So there's a lot of those," said Linklater.

Next week, Linklater's new movie "Last Flag Flying" will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.  The drama stars Bryan Cranston, Steve Carrell and Lawrence Fishburne as Vietnam War veterans. The characters take a road trip to bury one of their sons who was killed in Iraq.  It opens in November.