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It Runs in the Family
Film Review April 25, 2003
by Marrit Ingman
Description: There’s so much affection onscreen between the Douglas clan – father Kirk, mother and ex-wife Diana, son Michael, grandson Cameron – that it’s too bad that this New York family... 
by Marrit Ingman
"...Directed by: Fred Schepisi. Starring: Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Cameron Douglas, Diana Douglas, Bernadette Peters and Rory Culkin..."
Fantastic Fest: 'Hausu'
Screens Blog September 30, 2009
by Richard Whittaker
Description: This is your brain. This is your brain on Hausu
"...But as an experience, well, that's a whole other story. It's not incompetently made like so many other epicly bad movies: Obayashi's long career as an art film and TV commercial director has proved that he is more than technically adept (hell, the man got Kirk Douglas to schill coffee granules)..."
The Obsessive
Screens Story January 9, 2009
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: AFS Essential Cinema presents the early films of Brian De Palma
"...Starting this Tuesday, the Austin Film Society is presenting First Blood: The Early Films of Brian De Palma as part of its ongoing Essential Cinema Series. The program includes De Palma's first released feature, Murder à la Mod, released in 1968; campy cult-classic Phantom of the Paradise; and his 1976 breakout hit, Carrie, which momentarily launched the director into that rarefied land then being colonized by Lucas and Spielberg before he vanished happily again into the absurdist, Kirk Douglas-starring haze of The Fury...."
Off the Record
Music Column April 11, 2008
by Austin Powell
Description: Mohawk welcomes Red River Flats to the neighborhood, Ego's sings karaoke, and a tribute to pianist Doug Hall
"...Philadelphia's the Roots is the only hip-hop group that could hold its own on the jam-band circuit. Headlining UT's annual 40 Acres Fest on Saturday, Black Thought and company provided a 20-minute medley and crash course on the history of hip-hop, sampling everything from Biz Markie and Salt 'n' Pepa to the Wu-Tang Clan and Mims, before stripping down to trio for an enthralling 25-minute interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War," with drummer ?uestlove and guitarist Kirk Douglas delivering blitzkrieg solos from the front lines.
Random Play..."
Mike Wallace: Before He Was a 60-Minute Man
Screens Blog April 4, 2008
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Interviewees include such figures from the arts as Gloria Swanson, Salvador Dali, George Jessel, Jean Seberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Hammerstein II, Ben Hecht, and Kirk Douglas, as well as personalities from the political world such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Eldon Edwards, birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, and a Harvard University foreign-policy expert named Henry Kissinger..."
Letters @ 3AM
Columns February 1, 2008
by Michael Ventura
Description: Walking nervous breakdowns are so "normal" they're barely noticed
"...The person I was watching was me, and that me was huddled by the trash basket, shaking, trembling, trying to crawl into himself, weeping, wanting it all to stop, just stop, just everything stop. That me was trying to say the word "help" – a word I'm not very good at, in fact I'm lousy at it, and now I was hearing Anthony Quinn in Lust for Life: He's Gauguin (my favorite painter) and he's telling Kirk Douglas' Van Gogh (my mother's favorite painter), "To say, 'I love you,' would break all my teeth." To say "help" would have broken my teeth..."
DVD Watch
Screens Review July 20, 2007
by Raoul Hernandez
"...Criterion, $39.95 "I've met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you, you're 20 minutes." So sneers Jan Sterling at Kirk Douglas during 1951's Ace in the Hole, and you can almost hear Billy Wilder yukking it up softly off-camera. That the peerless Viennese filmmaker (1906-2002) followed the second of three Best Screenplay Oscars for Sunset Boulevard with this lesser effort – nevertheless nominated for another one – on his way to Stalag 17, Sabrina, and Some Like It Hot only cements the interest surrounding this relative obscurity..."
New Year, Old Films
Screens Story December 30, 2005
by Louis Black
Description: Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I
"...Out of the Past (1947; on DVD: Turner Home Entertainment, $19.98): Classic noir drips atmosphere with Robert Mitchum discovered hiding out in a small rural town after he double-crossed crime boss Kirk Douglas over Jane Greer. As the femme fatale, Greer is a revelation (not exactly as an actress)..."
Standing by Stanley
Screens Story November 21, 2003
by Courtney Fitzgerald
Description: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad interview with actor Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of the iconoclastic director.
"...So what was it that made the hard-to-get starlet give her life to the director 20 years her senior? "He was like no one I had ever met. He was so ill at ease with women even though he had discovered greats like Marlon Brando and Kirk Douglas," she recalls as her chuckle turns into pride, "I learned so much from being married to this man, and I'm still inspired by him." Indeed...."
The Mike Wallace Interview Series: Snapshots From the 1950s
Film Review April 10, 2002
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Each Saturday in April the HRC will present two interviews from The Mike Wallace Interview Series broadcast in the late Fifties. This Saturday's program features Gloria Swanson and Kirk Douglas...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Each Saturday in April the HRC will present two interviews from The Mike Wallace Interview Series broadcast in the late Fifties. This Saturday's program features Gloria Swanson and Kirk Douglas and will be introduced by Professor Thomas Schatz of the Radio-Television-Film Dept...."
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Film Review July 26, 2001
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: One of the all-time great fantasy-adventure films, this widescreen Jules Verne submarine tale overflows with great performances and set-pieces. The movie won Oscars for art direction and special effects....
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Richard Fleischer. Starring: Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, James Mason and Kirk Douglas..."
Postscripts
Books Column January 19, 2001
by Clay Smith
Description: Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.
"...Bush orating on Saturday have you begging for mercy? Do your presidential duty on Inauguration Day by tuning into KUT 90.5FM at 9am, when KUT will air a new radio documentary, Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady. Producer Joe Bevilacqua spent five months listening to previously unreleased audio archives housed at the LBJ Library, period news broadcasts, and private conversations with LBJ to create the program, which features Liz Carpenter, Washington Post owner Katherine Graham, LBJ Library director Harry Middleton, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center director Robert Glass Breunig, Lady Bird biographer Jan Jarboe Russell, first ladies Betty Ford and Barbara Bush, and Kirk Douglas and Helen Hayes reading from LBJ and Lady Bird's love letters..."
Favorite Sonero
Music Story November 3, 2000
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Buena Vista Social Club Cowboy Eliades Ochoa
"...The Academy Award-nominated film, like Cuba's favorite rum drink Mojitos -- sweet, intoxicating -- documents Ochoa walking down some railroad tracks in his black cowboy hat, thin wisps of a white goatee growing from the Kirk Douglas cleft in his chin. It was Ochoa, the adored theatrical release and video rental favorite informs us, who sings the Buena Vista Social Club's unofficial theme, "Chan Chan." Asked if the film changed his life, Ochoa sounds a little like an old bluesman...."
Spartacus
Film Review August 30, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The summer began with Gladiator, and thus will it end. Kubrick’s gladiator film is the pinnacle of sword-and-sandal epics, and who isn’t a sucker for stories about rebellious slaves. This...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, John Ireland and Woody Strode..."
Paths of Glory
Film Review August 2, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Kirk Douglas fights the military system in this grim depiction of French army politics during World War I. Kubrick’s film vividly depicts the harsh realities of war and remains a...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou and George Macready..."
It Came From Beyond
Screens Story July 21, 2000
by Cary L. Roberts
Description: "I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years
old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35,
Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most
promising horror film director.
"...There was a store in Guadalajara that sold fake chest hair in a thick vinyl, so they cut the vinyl in the shape of a mustache. You could see the vinyl over my skin, but I still glued that thing on and went to see Holocaust 2000 with Kirk Douglas..."
Ace in the Hole
Film Review July 13, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Billy Wilder’s cynicism takes center stage in this all-too-believable movie (aka The Big Carnival) about a newspaper reporter on a small New Mexico daily who hopes to win his ticket...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Billy Wilder. Starring: Porter Hall, Bob Arthur, Jan Sterling and Kirk Douglas..."
Detective Story
Film Review July 13, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Adapted from Sidney Kingsley’s heralded play about the inner workings of a New York City precinct, this movie survived with most of its grittiness intact. Although the play’s central character...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: William Wyler. Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Horace Mcmahon, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Joseph Wiseman, Bert Freed and George Macready..."
Off the Bookshelf
Books Review April 28, 2000
by Robert Bell
"...For instance, we learn all about Lancaster's independent production company, which was perhaps the most successful of its type in the Fifties. We read into his relationships with cinematic luminaries such as Kirk Douglas and Luchino Visconti, which were notably bittersweet..."
All Wrapped Up
Screens Story November 26, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten, Sarah Hepola, Marcel Meyer and Marc Savlov
Description: From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.
"...D: John Asher; with Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Dan Aykroyd, Corbin Allred, Jenny McCarthy...."
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