Bowling for Columbine

"...by: Michael Moore. With his new documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore proves once again that he is one..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I'm Not Ashamed

The story of the first casualty in the Columbine school shooting

"...Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed during the Columbine High School massacre upon whose diary this film is..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Elephant

Gus Van Sant examines the petri dish that grows the lethal seeds of high school disaster, à la Columbine.

"...Gus Van Sant’s brief (81 minutes) meditation on the Columbine killings, is, wisely, a lot like the real event...."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother's Little Monster

Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton on the complexities of their Columbine-inspired collaboration

"...a tragic and deeply unsettling story set in the post-Columbine era. The film discards the novel's epistolary structure in..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Halloween II

Rob Zombie's sequel to his 2007 remake of the original Halloween features Michael Myers coming back to town to wrap up some family business.

"...might easily have been voted Most Likely to Re-Enact Columbine in his high school yearbook had he gone to..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Life Before Her Eyes

Although Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood deliver strong performances, this film from the director of House of Sand and Fog is a muddled affront.

"...it would seem. As a teenager she experienced a Columbine-style rampage in her high school, and the upcoming 15th..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

O: The Movie

"...take a shot himself. O was filmed prior to Columbine, then shelved for a couple of years and bounced..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

O

"...take a shot himself. O was filmed prior to Columbine, then shelved for a couple of years and bounced..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Video: ATX6 Addresses “That Gun In Your Hand”

Local music ambassador project addresses school shootings

"...“What school?” I asked, “ Chatfield or Columbine?”..."

Feb. 12, 2020 Music Post by Chris Brecht

The American Demons

The murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1871 novel The Possessed and the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, though far apart in time and seemingly so in circumstance, become almost impossible to differentiate in The American Demons, a collaborative production of Salvage Vanguard Theater and Deborah Hay Dance Company.

"...students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked nonchalantly into Columbine High School, fired guns and lobbed homemade bombs throughout..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

In Person

Barry Glassner on fear in the media and how to hide a pony

"...fame by Glassner's appearance in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. You may recall him as the man who takes..."

April 8, 2005 Books Feature by Jess Sauer

Better Git Hit in Your Soul

Former Austinite George Ratliff returns to town with his new documentary, Hell House, which explores the Trinity Church's way of converting teens to Christ -- by scaring the pants off them.

"...national news because it included re-enactments of the then-recent Columbine shootings. "I made a few calls and the next..."

May 3, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Speed of Technology

SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival

"...to look for easy answers. When the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., catapulted geek culture into..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Girl Talk

A Focus Group

"...magazines, and what video games mean in the days post-Columbine. This is only a portion of that conversation...."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the Subgenius

Time to get slack once again with the bizarro Austin anti-cult

"...include competition from the internet, cult-related tragedies like the Columbine massacre, and some negative press (deserved and undeserved) over..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: A Mental Health Problem

We should all be deeply ashamed that we have let things go this far

"...there is nothing that can be done ... after Columbine, Sandy Hook, yes, Sandy Hook, Killeen, Virginia Tech, Orlando,..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Live From New York!

Forty years of a landmark show should yield more than an 82-minute doc

"...interspersed with images from matching eras (like Monica Lewinsky, Columbine, and the grubby, pre-Giuliani New York). You might read..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hold My End Up

Delta Spirit frontman Matt Vasquez returns to his roots: Austin

"..."It's my response to the incident at Columbine and being really similar to that kind," he says...."

June 5, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.

"...horror story, and one that in the wake of Columbine and other apparently random teen atrocities, strikes me as..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film

Reviews and interviews

"...It's Beef meets Bowling for Columbine. Like the DVD series detailing rap rivalries, Number One..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

For the Bible Tells Me So

Various men and women of the cloth provide a systematic dismantling of the idea that the Bible condemns homosexuality.

"...Hebrew. The film’s press notes point to Bowling for Columbine as an inspiration, and perhaps due to this we..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Last Days

Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.

"...uber-minimalist films – which also include Gerry and the Columbine-inspired Elephant – could just as easily be subtitled "Essays..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Views to a Kill

Gus Van Sant investigates school violence with 'Elephant'

"...and has become encapsulated by the gruesome incident at Columbine High School, also seized the director's attention. So inexplicable..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

"...Zellweger. Moving on, I very much wanted Bowling for Columbine to win Best Documentary Feature, but felt sure the..."

March 28, 2003 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Letters at 3AM

In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.

"...Michael Moore's film essay Bowling for Columbine will probably be 78-year-old Charlton Heston's last appearance on..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...for weeks. I've now seen Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine twice, and I thought it was a thoroughly moving..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Column

Hell House

"...Hell House suicide scene will remind the media of Columbine, which was re-created the prior year at Hell House..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Were you guilty of indulging in any of these particular fashion no-nos this year? Check out these horrid style Top Tens.

"...Hold Destiny's Child responsible for this current wave of Columbine chic (creepy in its pre-9/11-ness), but it has been..."

Jan. 4, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Soul Survivors

"...well as (presumably), interference from real-life news such as Columbine et al. Dead teens, even supernatural ones, haven't been..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

"...to Teaching Mrs. Tingle in the wake of the Columbine shootings; a TV spot featuring a dog drinking beer..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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