Down Here at the Paw’n Shop: Dog Tales From Sublime’s Time in Austin, 25 Years Ago

Memories of Lou Dog and Toby in the studio

"...confirms engineer Stuart Sullivan, regarding the canine influence of Sublime’s final studio recording, which transpired locally 25 years ago..."

May 6, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

25 Years Ago, Sublime Arrived in Austin and Cut One of the Decade's Biggest Albums

Local producer Paul Leary put some Austin in the Long Beach surf/punk/dub trio's mix

"...Arlyn Studios here in Austin, between Feb.-April 1996. As Sublime's right-hand man Michael "Miguel" Happoldt puts it, "The spirit..."

May 7, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Austin Film Society's Sublime Lines

Essential Cinema series: Japanese Animé

"...in the Austin Film Society's latest Essential Cinema series, Sublime Lines: Japanese Animé...."

Nov. 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

The Sublime Beauty of Kogonada's Columbus

Director brings his indie drama to AFS Cinema

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

H.R. Giger's Sublime Nightmares

Doc profiles the late surrealist artist

May 22, 2015 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Ceviche Sublime

Cool ceviche -- with its clean, fresh flavors of citrus-cured seafood -- is proving to be the hot dish in restaurants all over Austin this summer.

July 6, 2001 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Monos

Colombian child-soldier drama is a bleak look into the cruelty of innocents

"...movies I’ve seen in years; it’s epic and intimate, sublime and wild, otherworldly and very much a product of..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Nights With Emily

Molly Shannon breaks the myth of the staid Emily Dickinson with this vibrant biopic

"...gets thrown out the window in writer/director Madeleine Olnek’s sublime re-examination of Dickinson’s life in Wild Nights With Emily,..."

April 19, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Lucky

Cranky loner (and beloved character actor) faces mortality

"...Volver” with a backing mariachi band. The moment is sublime – gawdam, Harry could really sell a song –..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lemon

"...(Long), which also give Lemon some of its more sublime moments as it delves into the realm of clueless,..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kubo and the Two Strings

Sublime animated movie is disguised as kids' fare

"...With four features under its belt, beginning with the sublime Neil Gaiman adaptation Coraline in 2009, the Laika animation..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Gift

Joel Edgerton moves to the director's chair for this white-knuckle suspenser

"...seeming randomness of the universe, The Gift is borderline sublime in its ability to both confound expectations and fuel..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Words and Pictures

The story is rather creaky, but who cares when the actors Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche are so sublime together?

"...the actors Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche are so sublime together? Even though the film creates an artificial construct..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ernest & Celestine

The team from A Town Called Panic returns with another animated charmer – this time a tale about interspecies friendship and dentistry.

"...this tale of interspecies friendship and dentistry is a sublime example of form following function...."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Book Thief

This print bestseller about a girl's coming of age amid the horrors of Nazi Germany is swaddled in maudlin melodrama in this film adaptation.

"...by Michael Petroni, chucks out the novel’s crisp, occasionally sublime storytelling in favor of huge swaths of maudlin melodrama..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Holy Motors

Holy Motors; hot damn. This French firecracker is set to detonate.

"...disruptive energy, Holy Motors is also a thing of sublime beauty...."

Dec. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Intouchables

The unlikely friendship that forms between a wealthy, white quadriplegic and a streetwise, black ne'er-do-well who becomes his live-in companion is the subject of this French film.

"...film is a minor gem of nuanced performances and sublime directorial craftsmanship. It's devoid of the shouting and culture-war..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Shadows

Sometimes it might be best to let sleeping vampires lie.

"...design, art direction, and set decoration are all eye-pleasingly sublime. Yet in the end, Dark Shadows seems more like..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Insidious

Insidious, from the original Saw team, lacks thrills and originality.

"...ad nauseam. Don't even get me started on the sublime asininity of the cloven-hoofed, fire-faced demon thingee that, for..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hangover

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.

"...Office's Helms), and Doug's non-sequitur-spouting future brother-in-law, Alan (the sublime Galifianakis, so outré he's toeing performance art here). They..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fear(s) of the Dark

This French anthology of six short animated films, which are thematically linked by their dark tonalities and stirrings of dread, has greater appeal for animation buffs than horror hounds.

"...is a recurring motif in numerous segments.) The most sublime segment is the film's final episode by McGuire, in..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Animation Show 4

Mike Judge is back with a brand new collection of short animated films, and it's premiering here in Austin.

"...bear and a penguin “John and Karen” and his sublime “Operator,” about a man trying to get the big..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shutter

Shutter is a shabby American remake of a Thai movie about a couple who sees mysterious images in photographs.

"...do-over of Thai filmmakers Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom's sublime, melancholy, and ultimately ghastly (and identically titled) 2004 T-horror..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Manufactured Landscapes

With the eye of an artist, photographer Edward Burtynsky views the effects of China's industrial incursions into its natural landscape.

"...in uncharted waters. After all, few documentaries seek the sublime and meditative in something as dreary and disheartening as..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Joshua

The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.

"...are moments in Joshua that recall, in their spare, sublime paranoiac vision of parenthood, another archetypal cinematic bad seed:..."

July 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Employee of the Month

Assorted workers vie for the coveted title of "Employee of the Month."

"...that the stoner/slacker comedy genre can generate films of sublime humor, if only once every 10 years or so...."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don't Come Knocking

With its wonderful veteran cast, its heart on its sleeve, and a love for the landscape that suffuses its technique, Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders' movie is a peculiar but rewarding escape.

"...accord, and Don’t Come Knocking is a warm and sublime meditation on making a home out west and finding..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Slither

Writer-director James Gunn knows what makes horror fans howl, and is one heck of a writer to boot.

"...in delighted repulsion and, just as important, with the sublime in-crowd, fanboy glee that only comes when the director..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Matador

A curious, postmodern sort of buddy comedy, The Matador is like Death of a Salesman if Willy Loman had been a contract killer.

"...Matador is anything but predictable, and therein lies its sublime and fascinating charm...."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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