Shaq's Third Autobiography

Where he reveals he's pretty much the best at everything

"...Shaquille O'Neal, and with his mighty pen comes an autobiography of a different breed...."

Nov. 29, 2011 Sports Post by Will Schmidt

'Celebrity Autobiography'

The twaddle peddled by celebs in memoirs is even funnier when read aloud

"...Still, there's something special about celebrity twaddle from an autobiography; the pretension toward the literary – hey, it's in..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Willie Nelson’s Autobiography at Gruene Hall

Thirty tunes in 90 minutes details a epic Lone Star life

"...to pen another book. His songs are all the autobiography needed...."

Nov. 18, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Crafting the Autobiography of Another Man

AFS Documentary Tour: The Windmill Movie

"...the film I wanted to make – an imagined autobiography...."

Sept. 11, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Autobiography of the Other Woman

The real-life affair of a director and his star inspires On the Beach at Night Alone

Jan. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Maddin Comes Alive

'Cowards Bend the Knee': the autobiography of an original in all senses

"...balance the books a little bit by filming my autobiography (or at least its most lurid moments) and letting..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

JLG by JLG

"...to be telling me as much about my own autobiography as the director's. Though appreciative, I find myself more..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...In Miles Davis' autobiography, one of the mightiest forces in music, let alone..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

10 Minutes with Stephen Stills

CSN bandleader stops in for a lesson on the blues

"...Texas-born Stephen Stills talked about his unfinished autobiography, teaming up with guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry..."

July 23, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Tale of the Lion Tamer

Former WWE wrestler Chris Jericho's autobiography, released today, talks about the art that makes choreographed entertainment out of a sport.

"...regular talking head, and now finally pumped out an autobiography. But there is a long, dark shadow hanging over..."

Oct. 25, 2007 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

The life and pain of the jazz great in his own words and music

"...commentary taken directly from the musician's memoir Miles: The Autobiography, delivered in the musician’s signature rasp. Davis’ life story..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography

"...Boy is. Adapted from Rolling Stone writer David Sheff's autobiography of the same name, and his son Nic's parallel..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Backstabbing for Beginners

Diplomacy and corruption mix in true-life drama.

"...Oil-for-Food Program. Based on former U.N. staffer Michael Soussan's autobiography, Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy...."

May 11, 2018 Movie Review

It's a Long Story: My Life

Austin outlaw updates his 1988 autobiography

"...Country music's at-large outlaw already boasts one autobiography, 1988's Willie: An Autobiography, co-written with Texan man of..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Dior and I

This sharp doc is as close as most of us will ever get to fingering the Dior merchandise

"...ethereal narration drawn from founding designer Christian Dior’s own autobiography, Dior by Dior. (Tcheng employed a voice-from-beyond-the-grave technique less..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Dance of Reality

Cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature in 23 years is a labor of mad, passionate love

"...Sangre, The Dance of Reality is based on Jodorowsky’s autobiography, and, in particular, his wild childhood. You could even..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Idris Elba is spellbinding in this biopic that reveres the man but slights the movement.

"...The film draws from Mandela’s autobiography; but 95 years is an awful lot of life..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Art of Getting By

As coming-of-age dramas go, this one is flaccid and endlessly irksome.

"...film "personal," which reads to me like code for "autobiography about how that hot girl in high school wouldn't..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mao's Last Dancer

In this film based on a true story, a Chinese ballet dancer defects to the U.S. when he falls in love with a Houston dancer while on tour.

"...in the end. Based as it is on Li's autobiography, the end is never in doubt, although Beresford and..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Informant!

Soderbergh's corporate whistleblower comedy is tuned in the key of Richard Lester.

"...Scott Z. Burns) is based on the identically titled autobiography of the real-life whistle-blower Kurt Eichenwald, the movie’s addition..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fuel

Fuel is a two-hour infomercial for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources that won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance.

"...put together a good-intentioned but dull mishmash that’s part autobiography, part first-person travelogue, part history and ecology lesson, and..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Persepolis

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...and Vincent Paronnaud. Persepolis is at once a confessional autobiography, historical re-enactment, graphic art object, and deeply involving contemporary..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hoax

Playing the con artist Clifford Irving, who notoriously forged the autobiography of Howard Hughes, Richard Gere has one of the best roles of his career.

"...important book of the 20th century”: an authorized, tell-all autobiography of famed billionaire and aviator Howard Hughes. Seeing the..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Kid Stays in the Picture

"...Hollywood producer/shark Robert Evans: He makes terrific copy. His autobiography, upon which this film is based, was a tell-all,..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Loss of Sexual Innocence

"...stir the emotions most certainly do. Reputedly a sexual autobiography of sorts, The Loss of Sexual Innocence tells an..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Infinity

"...the early years of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's autobiography -- but then Broderick has always struck me as..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

"...1979 at the age of 40. Fashioning a fictional autobiography from Seberg's career highs and lows, director Mark Rappaport..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Slingshot

"...children for cash. The movie is based on the autobiography of Roland Schutt, who grew up to become a..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

"...one minute, this (along with Leni Riefenstahl's recently released autobiography) has got to be the final, exhaustive say on..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stepping Razor -- Red X

"...that were originally to be used for the singer's autobiography. The name comes from the fact that whenever Tosh..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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