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Lone Star

Independent film visionary John Sayles revisits his past in a SXSW retrospective.

Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2002

Pick of the Litter

Highlighting what the South by Southwest Film Festival has to offer.

Screens Feature, Mar. 8, 2002

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Dame Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her work here as a flinty, flamboyant Scottish schoolmarm who inspires a dangerous hero worship in her young students.

Screens Review, Mar. 8, 2002

40 Days and 40 Nights

Some of us are angry and bitter. Some of us haven't found the right person yet. Some of us are just having a slow month...

Film Review, Mar. 1, 2002

Telling It Like It is

UT and SXSW host an all-day documentary summit.

Screens Feature, Mar. 1, 2002

Dragonfly

“ … starring Kevin Costner.” Doesn't quite have the same ring to it these days, does it? One of the more startling examples of a...

Film Review, Feb. 22, 2002

Donnie Darko

A frail, shock-haired old woman, nicknamed the macabre Grandma Death, whispers into Donnie Darko's ear: “Every living creature on Earth dies alone.” It's an idea...

Film Review, Feb. 22, 2002

Super Troopers

Exceedingly silly -- and how could it not be when its comic well draws mainly from bottom-of-the-barrel material like masturbation, marijuana, and blow-up dolls --...

Film Review, Feb. 15, 2002

Big Fat Liar

Hollywood's already pillaged all our fairy tales; it only makes sense they'd co-opt our moral fables next. Big Fat Liar is the “Boy Who Cried...

Film Review, Feb. 8, 2002

The Other Side of Heaven

The Kingdom of Tonga certainly looks like paradise. Sandy, sunny beaches, gorgeous natives prowling around in not all that much, zero modernities to distract from...

Film Review, Feb. 1, 2002

A Walk to Remember

Based on a Nicholas Sparks' novel, A Walk to Remember starts out gloriously, with the title credits pounding out over the Breeders' “Cannonball” and its...

Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2002

Come on, fellatio jokes are funny. Admit it. I did. I'd managed to avoid the Sick & Twisted festival -- an offshoot of Spike &...

Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002

Charlotte Gray

For a select portion of the population who like their pleasures guilty, melodrama can be a glorious thing: war, valor, intrigue, star-cross'd lovers, betrayal, bursting...

Film Review, Jan. 25, 2002

The Beauty of the Beast

Austin's IMAX theatre opts not to screen the newly remastered Disney film.

Screens Feature, Jan. 18, 2002

The Magnificent Ambersons

There are hints of a meaty complexity to Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons beyond its doomed-love motif, but the 88-minutes-long film, while striking, is too brief to really explore all that it hints at.

Screens Review, Jan. 18, 2002

Gosford Park

It may seem ironic, considering how notorious Altman is for allowing his actors to digress from the script into manic, thrilling improvisation, to note that...

Film Review, Jan. 11, 2002

Love Is a Battlefield

The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.

Screens Feature, Jan. 11, 2002

In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom takes its name from a “bedroom trap,” in which two lobsters are trapped in a single fishing cage and attack each other,...

Film Review, Jan. 4, 2002

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Animated Jimmy saves Retroville from the aliens.

Film Review, Dec. 21, 2001

The Majestic

The “Majestic” may be the name of the old movie house Jim Carry restores in this period piece, but you get the feeling it's also...

Film Review, Dec. 21, 2001

Fat Girl

Words like “feminist” and “provocative” are frequently bandied about when talking about French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, a writer and director who has built a career...

Film Review, Dec. 14, 2001

Better Than Sex

The title alone sets Better Than Sex up for a fall at the hands of metaphor-manic critics (“About as appealing as dry-humping a second-hand sofa!”...

Film Review, Dec. 7, 2001

Amélie

Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?

Film Review, Nov. 16, 2001

Wet Hot American Summer

Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams, largely culled from comedy troupe the State.

Film Review, Nov. 2, 2001

On the Line

Apparently looking to extend his 15 minutes, 'N Sync crooner Lance Bass stars in his feature-film debut as Kevin, a Windy City ad exec who...

Film Review, Oct. 26, 2001

Waking Life

An animated journey through one character's dreams, Waking Life is perhaps the most beautifully realized melding of words and pictures yet. – Kimberley Jones

Film Review, Oct. 26, 2001

Corky Romano

SNL cast member Chris Kattan should have been in silent comedy. He has the Silly Putty face of those old slapstick stars, and a sing-song,...

Film Review, Oct. 19, 2001

Liam

Best off to begin with a bias: I am not a fan of Catholic guilt. So it was with a distinct lack of enthusiasm that...

Film Review, Oct. 19, 2001

Serendipity

When Jonathan (Cusack) meets Sara (Beckinsale), they're stuck in the Christmas crush at Bloomingdale's, both eyeing the last pair of cashmere black gloves. He's kinda...

Film Review, Oct. 5, 2001

Don't Say a Word

The last couple of years have been good to Michael Douglas, and, no, I'm not referring to his acquisition of a Mrs. Michael Douglas. His...

Film Review, Sep. 28, 2001

Greenfingers

Just into the opening credits, as a forgettably peppy song plays on the soundtrack, the screen spells out a cringe-inducing caveat: “This story is inspired...

Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001

Adventures of Felix

Recently laid off from his dock worker job in Normandy, Felix (Bouajila) bids farewell to his lover and hits the road, with the plan of...

Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001

Hardball

Contrary to what publicity wonks, with their one-line clippy pitches, would have you believe, Hardball is not a Bad News Bears for the urban set....

Film Review, Sep. 14, 2001

Vertical Ray of the Sun

If there is a heaven, I hope it looks like Vertical Ray of the Sun. Hands-down the most gorgeously put-together piece of celluloid in recent...

Film Review, Sep. 7, 2001

Rock Star

Coming of age during the Eighties, kids had two obvious paths as far as musical development went. If you were cool, you were into rap....

Film Review, Sep. 7, 2001

O

The practice of reimagining Shakespeare for film has produced some modern wonders that have added contemporary depth to the classic texts: Kurosawa's Ran, Richard Loneraine's...

Film Review, Aug. 31, 2001

O: The Movie

The practice of reimagining Shakespeare for film has produced some modern wonders that have added contemporary depth to the classic texts: Kurosawa's Ran, Richard Loneraine's...

Film Review, Aug. 31, 2001

Bubble Boy

It's a shame if the controversy surrounding Bubble Boy distracts people from what a smart, subversive, and genuinely good-hearted film it is. Protest groups have...

Film Review, Aug. 24, 2001

The Deep End

To be a mother -- at least, a good one -- is to be a zealot, fanatically devoted to the cause of your children. You'd...

Film Review, Aug. 24, 2001

Osmosis Jones

There are certain mysteries of the universe that I will never truly understand: the big bang theory, circuit breakers, the comeback of the mullet. Having...

Film Review, Aug. 10, 2001

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