The two-disc 'Collected Shorts' spans 27 years, and while some of the films don't fully cross the CGI generational divide, you can see in all of them why animators like Tim Burton have been so strongly influenced by Svankmajer's work

Film Reviews

Echoes of Innocence

Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.

Lila Says

Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.

A Sound of Thunder

Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.

Transporter 2

For all its gimmicky mayhem, Transporter 2 is an improvement over the original, completely setting aside such yawn-inducing cinematic standbys as a romantic interest and realism.

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.

arts & culture

Race to Innovation

With $1,000 each and eight weeks, five teams compete to take theatre to a new level

BY ELIZABETH COBBE

The Evidence of Silence Broken: Becoming Zell

How Zell Miller III came to be an acclaimed poet-performer is revealed in 'The Evidence of Silence Broken,' his hip-hop performance piece

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Michael Frary: In Memoriam

Michael Frary, an influential Texas modernist, painter of Texas watercolors, and longtime UT-Austin art professor, has passed away at age 87

BY ROBERT FAIRES

GlassTire: Stew Descending a Staircase

GlassTire, the online journal for all things visual artsy in Texas, has coerced assorted Austin arts organizations to stir up some serious chili this weekend

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Gallery 3: Where the Students Hang

The University Co-op is sponsoring Gallery 3, a new visual arts exhibition space run by students, inside its building on the Drag

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Twelfth Night

In Onstage Theatre Company's 'Twelfth Night,' the frolicking gaiety generally gives way to choppier stage seas and constricted emotion

'Organic: Recent Artworks by Todd Campbell and Jennifer Chenoweth'

'Organic' shows new work by husband and wife artists Jennifer Chenoweth and Todd Campbell that is opulent and expansive

columns

Page Two

In a post-Katrina about-face, Republicans suddenly don't want to play the 'blame game'

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

About AIDS

Research shows that when folks with serious health issues do volunteer work, they don't notice their own aches 'n' pains quite so much

BY SANDY BARTLETT

To Your Health

Is eating chocolate beneficial to my health?

BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

The Common Law

Identity theft at the gas pump?

BY LUKE ELLIS

Day Trips

The Texas Metal Arts Festival in Gruene features 25 of the top creative metalworkers in the state showing their creations ranging from fine jewelry to large outdoor sculptures