YEAR
marjorie baumgarten 2002 440 results
Five Masters of Death
The mainstay director of Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studio was Chang Cheh. His Shaolin Temple kung fu movies contained mythical grandeur and kinetic action that...
Film Review, Dec. 30, 2002
Alias Betty
Alias Betty is either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks. I'm...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2002
Evelyn
Woe be to Evelyn if James Bond had not come to its rescue. With a nicely modulated performance as the film's Everybloke, Pierce Brosnan rescues...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2002
Puzzle
This Italian giallo is a stylish thriller about an amnesiac. It was originally titled Man Without a Memory....
Film Review, Dec. 27, 2002
The Incubus
Top-liner John Cassavetes goes slumming for cash in this grizzly horror outing about a sleepy New England town beset by the wretched deeds of a...
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2002
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
An atomic bomb blast sets off this prehistoric creature that runs roughshod over humanity. The better-than-average effects are by Ray Harryhausen....
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2002
Airplane!
The spoof that launched a thousand parodies - this is the one that's 100% funny....
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2002
Adaptation.
Adaptation. is a profound natural process by which living things unconsciously mutate over time in order to achieve greater concordance with their surroundings. Adaptation can...
Film Review, Dec. 20, 2002
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is a monumental piece of filmmaking that at once tells a little-explored aspect of the making of New York City --...
Film Review, Dec. 20, 2002
The Hot Chick
Even when decked out as an 18-year-old high school girl, Rob Schneider is just as funny as he ever was. That's good news to his...
Film Review, Dec. 13, 2002
Maid in Manhattan
Ever since the out-of-left-field hit of My Big Fat Greek Wedding this year, everyone has been wondering where the next mega-successful romantic comedy was going...
Film Review, Dec. 13, 2002
8 Women
In the tradition of George Cukor's The Women, this French import features an all-female cast. Not only that, but it showcases several French stars from...
Film Review, Dec. 11, 2002
Will it Snow for Christmas?
Winner of both the Prix Louis Delluc, the most venerable French film award, and the Cesar for best first film, Veysset's film tells the story...
Film Review, Dec. 10, 2002
Day of the Animals
Hikers dropped off by helicopter discover that the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer has caused animals at high altitudes to run amok....
Film Review, Dec. 10, 2002
The Righteous Babes
This documentary explores the intersection between feminism and popular music, and focuses on the role of female recording artists in the 1990s and their influence...
Film Review, Dec. 10, 2002
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Pennebaker's documentary captures the final concert of the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Hammersmith Odeon outside London on July 3, 1973.
Film Review, Dec. 10, 2002
The Battle of Canudos
Based on historical facts that are still shrouded in some mystery, Battle of Canudos is an epic drama about the bloodiest conflict in Brazil's history....
Film Review, Dec. 9, 2002
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights seems to be fashioned around the idea of making fun of as many body parts as possible -- no matter...
Film Review, Dec. 6, 2002
Freeze Me
A low-budget Japanese revenge movie, Freeze Me tells the story a woman who retaliates against the three gangbangers who won't leave her alone. After gang-raping...
Film Review, Dec. 4, 2002
American Astronaut
This black-and-white sci-fi musical is beautiful and strange. Scripted and directed by the frontman of the musical group the Billy Nayer Show, American Astronaut is...
Film Review, Dec. 3, 2002
Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Aka Flesh for Frankenstein)
Udo Kier plays the famous mad baron, who's deep into his cloning experiments while his wife is making time with Joe Dallesandro's handsome peasant stud....
Film Review, Dec. 3, 2002
Centerfold Girls
A serial killer offs pinup girls....
Film Review, Dec. 3, 2002
Fall Semester Student Screening
Austin FilmWorks presents an end-of-the-semester screening of its Production One and Production Two final film projects. For more info call 467-0731 or see www.austinfilmworks.com....
Film Review, Dec. 2, 2002
Solaris
"There are no solutions, only choices," intones the mission commander of the ill-fated space station Prometheus in Steven Soderbergh's new science fiction love story Solaris....
Film Review, Nov. 29, 2002
Therese
Therese Martin was a middle-class French girl who became a Carmelite nun and died of tuberculosis in 1897 at the age of 24. The "Little...
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
Kill Squad
A Vietnam vet assembles a martial arts vigilante squad to murder the thugs who killed his wife....
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
Popeye
Critically drubbed at the time of its release, Altman's Popeye is faithful to the spirit of the old comic strip and animated cartoons. Robin Williams...
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
Cauleen Smith Presents Short Films
Cinemaker's regular open screening of local filmworks will be followed by a presentation by Cauleen Smith of her short films. Smith is among the newest...
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
Raw, Uncensored and Totally Nude
The popular access TV show, The Show With No Name, is putting on a live program with clips and other material that surpass all standards...
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
La Naissance De L'Amour (The Birth of Love)
French cinema stalwart Philippe Garrel has been making films since the Sixities, usually examining issues os male intimacy and existence. In La Naissance de L’Amour,...
Film Review, Nov. 25, 2002
The Emperor's Club
This boys boarding-school story buries an interesting storyline about morality and the choices we make underneath such a mountain of clichés and borrowed images that...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 2002
El Crimen del Padre Amaro
Controversial Mexican film about a priest who struggles with sins of the flesh.
Film Review, Nov. 22, 2002
Far From Heaven
Far From Heaven begins just like Douglas Sirk's 1952 Hollywood melodrama All That Heaven Allows: The camera cranes through a grove of treetops, through their...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 2002
Ator the Fighting Eagle
Ator the Fighting Eagle is the first of several Italian fantasy films directed by D'Amato in the Eighties that star the amazingly untalented Miles O'Keeffe...
Film Review, Nov. 19, 2002
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) and “Chimps: So Like Us”
An exceptional documentary, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (60 min.) looks at the role of women on the homefront during WWII. The...
Film Review, Nov. 19, 2002
Une Nouvelle Vie (A New Life)
This early work by the acclaimed director of Irma Vep and Alice et Martin is a twisty mystery of psycho-sexual intrigue that uses abrupt time...
Film Review, Nov. 19, 2002
"The Subtext of a Yale Education" and "University Inc."
The program consists of Laura Dunn’s “Subtext of a Yale Education” (1999, 31 min.), which follows the labor strikes at Yale in 1996 from a...
Film Review, Nov. 19, 2002
Charade
The sexual chemistry between Hepburn and Grant, when set against the suave thriller's tumultuous backdrop of shifting identities, makes this movie an enduring favorite.
Film Review, Nov. 18, 2002
American Mullet
“I’ve had one person tell me it was a lesbian haircut, but I’m cool with that - I like women," admits one mulletized biker in...
Film Review, Nov. 18, 2002
The Best of the Austin 48-Hour Film Project
The top 11 films, based on judge and audience surveys from the 2002 local competition will screen, and the final winner and other awards will...
Film Review, Nov. 18, 2002
« BACK
« FIRST Page 1 of 11 LAST »
FOLLOWUS
TODAY’S EVENTS
Mamma Jamma Ride Kick-off Party at Saengerrunde Hall
Tokyo Story
at The Marchesa Hall & Theatre
MORE RECOMMENDED EVENTS »
MUSIC | FILM | ARTS | COMMUNITY
CHRONCAST
Eastside Memorial High School Poem Dedication
Students from the East Austin campus send a message to the Austin ISD board of trustees
MORE CHRONCAST »
Audio
Photos
THEMOST
Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU
Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people
Playback: Demolition at 1701 Red River Another Red River venue going away? There goes the neighborhood.
Bonds: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts' Even with Propositions 1 and 3 passing, AISD's election campaign appeared doomed from the start
The Changing Face of Mueller A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
Review: The Great Gatsby A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people
Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU
Bill of the Week: No 'Easy Death' Bill ends animal shelter gas chambers
Taste Test Farmers market food sampling bill passes Texas House
East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend Big Medium, Co-Lab, Tiny Park, MASS Gallery: Four in Legion
Summer Fun: Season’s Screenings Austin filmmakers pick their favorite summer movies
THELATEST
Finding Rail Route Complicated Michael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...
Problems Facing Mueller Neighborhood leaders and members past and present of the city of Austin's Robert Mueller Advisory Commission (RMAC) deserve credit for ...
People Are the Real Mueller Story Through various media, we are subjected to stories of Mueller: the construction project. While that can be appreciated, Mueller's true ...
Keeping Austin Weird Things that keep Austin weird: 1) belief that one needs a train to get from UT to the state Capitol; ...
More Women on the Cover, Please How about putting a woman on the cover once in a while? The last eight issues have all featured men ...
MORE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR »
- Follow us@AustinChronicle
- Copyright © 1981-2013 Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved.
- |
- Contact
- |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Advertise With Us
