Elegy

In this smart adaptation of Philip Roth's A Dying Animal, Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz turn the table on the standard May-December romance.

"...is a recurring character in Philip Roth’s fiction, and Elegy is based on his short novel The Dying Animal...."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Steve Parker's Foghorn Elegy

The disappearing & defunct methods of seafaring communication

"...Lake Austin – alongside Steve Parker’s newest sculpture, Foghorn Elegy...."

Nov. 1, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

"...(Aug. 6-8) at Ground Floor Theatre, Robin Hood: An Elegy premieres at the Vortex. Running Aug. 7-22, this work..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robin Hood: An Elegy

Rough edges aside, Generic Ensemble Company's new work makes an urgent statement that #blacklivesmatter

"...Robin Hood: An Elegy, a new play by Krysta Gonzales, begins as a..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Hillbilly Elegy

Redneck rehab drama is better intentioned but more tone-deaf than the book

"...family, the stupefying oversimplification of it all, make Hillbilly Elegy as artificial as the near-meat in the fried bologna..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Elegy for the Man Behind @ATXhipsters

Kelly Wayne Noel killed by drunk driver

May 2, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Elegy for an Invisible Hipster: Kelly Wayne Noel

Man behind anonymous Twitter feed killed by drunken driver

April 28, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Elegy To a Family Made of Football Fans

'America's Parking Lot' screening benefits Capital Area Food Bank

Nov. 12, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Chaos of Eros

Isabel Coixet's 'Elegy' for a dying animal

"...to pretension-impaired non-arthouse fare. And in the case of Elegy, based on Philip Roth's 2001 book, The Dying Animal,..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

American Woman

Sienna Miller pulls pages from a journal of loss in small town

"...Ozark meth-head bluegrass of Winter's Bone or the raw elegy of Debra Granik's remarkable Leave No Trace. His script..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer

"...Morris’ film also functions as an elegy for Polaroid and the large-format imagery that has now..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sweetgrass

This documentary about sheep herding in Montana captures a way of life that has become extinct.

"...way of life now lost. But Sweetgrass is no elegy; there’s no editorializing here, just a straightforward immersion in..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

2046

At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.

"...not so much a tone poem as a tone elegy, a sumptuous keen for love interrupted, or never begun...."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beefcake

"...a slackerly attempt at investigative journalism, and a heartfelt elegy to an inscrutable pop-culture obscurity, Thom Fitzgerald's semi-biopic often..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jack the Bear

"...of this story: the suburban dream turned nightmarish, an elegy for lost innocence and fear of the unknown future...."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the Vermeers in New York

"...lit. The story, as Jost describes it, is an “elegy” for the Eighties, “a decade bathed in delusions and..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Glacier

As an elegy to the ice, this dance aestheticized doom but left us plenty of edge

"...As an elegy to the ice, the work aestheticized doom but left..."

June 9, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...5. Elegy Philip Roth finally gets the film interpretation his work..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Gay Place: A Feather in the Cap

This Robin Hood is not your daddy's white guys in tights

"...bags and longbow. This current iteration, Robin Hood: An Elegy, comes from local director kt shorb (The Majestic, of..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

A Poet's Paper Trail

Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance

"...two discoveries. “One is that I could write an elegy – I’ve been an English professor for over 30..."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM: Me, Myself, I, and Muriel

A poem can awaken many selves

"...So here comes Muriel Rukeyser's "Elegy in Joy."..."

April 5, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Hottest August

A month-long portrait of NYC captures our fears for the future

"...sprinkling of commentary - a dash of Zadie Smith's Elegy For a Country's Seasons, snippets of Annie Dillard's Total..."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Love, Antosha

The fascinating but fleeting life of Anton Yelchin given due reverence

"...with, and you have a very heartfelt but maudlin elegy that doesn’t quite tap into who Yelchin actually was...."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Starfish

The end of the world becomes a powerful, music-driven metaphor for grief, loss, and healing

"...where Starfish takes an astounding turn from lyrical indie elegy into more arcane territory...."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Donnybrook

Backwoods crime drama with a social conscience is gruelingly bleak

"...In this mournful, Rust Belt elegy, that makes him virtually an angel in contrast to..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Bookshop

British period literary drama is pretty weak tea

"...adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal as Elegy. But in adapting Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 Booker prize-nominated novel,..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

GenEnCo's The Mikado: Reclaimed

In this newly devised work, Asian-American artists grapple with the complicated legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan's opera

"...community. (The first was last year's Robin Hood: An Elegy, which used the titular figure from British folklore to..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley drive a tale of unlikely friendship

"...the director and co-star of 2008’s Philip Roth adaptation Elegy, one of the last times a movie gave the..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Chronicle Staff Blog Recognized

Chronicle blog nominated for AAN Award

"...• "Elegy for an Invisible Hipster" by Chase Hoffberger..."

May 19, 2015 News Post

Headlines

"...and the lack of alternative transportation in Austin. See "Elegy for the Man Behind @ATXhipsters."..."

May 2, 2014 News Feature

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