Letters at 3AM: Georges Méliès' Tricks and Treats
Creating the possibility that anything could happen onscreen was the great contribution of Georges Méliès
"...That is Georges Méliès, directing and starring in "The Four Troublesome Heads"..."
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Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura
Wild Grass
Alain Resnais' glorious-looking film spirals in its subjective viewpoints with a main character who may be mad or merely madly in love or perhaps maddened that love has somehow eluded him.
"...beings who populate it seem almost drab by comparison. Georges (Dussollier), a fiftyish man with a narrative soundtrack attached,..."
Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Tangible Pleasures of Cinema
The Sprocket Society gets hands on with film
"...young Werner Herzog, a rarely screened late-career entry by Georges Méliès, "The Conquest of the Pole" (1912), and a..."
Aug. 10, 2012 Screens Feature by Leah Churner
Transformers
What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.
"...and what you're left with wouldn't pass muster in Georges Méliès' time. Former Even Stevenser LaBeouf meets a thousand..."
July 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Apollo 11
Astounding documentary takes us back to the first crewed mission to the moon
"...event has been a subject dear to filmmakers since Georges Méliès made “A Trip to the Moon” in 1902,..."
March 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Hugo
Martin Scorsese steps outside his comfort zone to create an effects-heavy children’s film set in France – and winds up creating one of his most splendid and personal films.
"...shop’s crusty owner, who is later revealed to be Georges Méliès (Kingsley), the forgotten inventor of special-effects filmmaking. This..."
Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward
Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all
"...when pioneering inventors and artists like the Lumière Brothers, Georges Méliès, and Thomas Edison literally made it up as..."
Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Taking a Stand on Shorts
No mere calling card or stepping stone, the short film is enjoying a renaissance
"...to the movies" was born of short films. From Georges Méliès' magical 1902 moon shot to Charles Chaplin's uneasy,..."
March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
New Book Altars Looks Through a Camera Lens Darkly
Darla Teagarden brings ritual to art photography
"..."I take the beauty in occultism, witchcraft, bygone eras, Georges Méliès, and all that's filtered through my eyes."..."
Feb. 4, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker
DVDanger: Drawn to the Screen
Some animated selections from beyond the House of Mouse
"...to a mad chase across Europe (aided, oddly, by Georges Méliès), and a visual style that fuses steampunk, Tim..."
Dec. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Lost World, Found Footage
AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner
"...by rebellious souls. From the early special-effect experimentation of Georges Méliès to the revolution in Soviet montage spearheaded by..."
Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Stickmen With Ray Guns
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Steam
"...the ideas of proto-futurists Wells and Verne (and cinematically, Georges Méliès and Metropolis) with modern mores via writers and..."
April 29, 2011 Books Feature by Marc Savlov
Something Weird
How Tim League discovered 110 drive-in films in an East Prairie warehouse and other stories of disappearing celluloid.
"...with prints of such extremely rare film treasures as Georges Méliès' films from the turn of the century, the..."
Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw
DVDanger: Elstree 1976
On set for Star Wars, plus Creepshow and Harryhausen
"...greatest and influential artist-technicians of cinema, up there with Georges Méliès and Harryhausen’s inspiration, Willis O’Brien, it’s hard to..."
July 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
CineMarfa
"...The weekend closes with a kids' program of Georges Méliès films, and a paper airplane contest in honor..."
April 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Weird, Weird West
Giddings gets retro-futuristic for Weird West Fest
"...Verne and H.G. Wells wrote it or filmmaking pioneer Georges Méliès put it on the screen, it was speculative..."
Dec. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
"...It seems like just yesterday the Lumiere Brothers, Georges Méliés, and old Tom Edison were filming trains arriving..."
Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
The Many Faces of Janus
AFS Essential Cinema series presents a wild lineup
"...May 7: The Wages of Fear (D: Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)..."
April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List
Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot
"...story behind La Grande Jatte, an iconic painting by Georges Seurat that we all know but don’t actually truly..."
Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker
True Love and Lawsuits in the Wedding Capital of Texas
'Til death do us party
"...weddings in April of 2016, tensions escalated between the Georges and the Saligas. The weddings, which George claims sometimes..."
April 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger
Pushing the Borderline
AFS Essential Cinema highlights filmmakers far from home
"...July 12: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (D: Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, France,..."
June 3, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
The Animation Show 4
Mike Judge is back with a brand new collection of short animated films, and it's premiering here in Austin.
"...dinner with Pixie Stix pasta and dollar-bill basil) and Georges Schwizgebel's “Jeu” (channeling Oskar Fischinger, M.C. Escher, and Leni..."
April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
LaV
A new contender for Austin’s best restaurant
"...a 1945 Latour for $20,500 or a 1996 Domaine Georges Roumier, "Les Amoureuses" for $6,750? But a "great wine..."
May 9, 2014 Food Feature by Wes Marshall
Liquid Assets
The price is right even if the political climate is not
"...of its price/quality ratio is Chateau le Thou, A Georges et Clem ($17.99). This wine is from the Languedoc..."
Jan. 23, 2004 Food Column by Wes Marshall
News/Print
Please form two lines and file in slowly.
"...and A Mid-Season Sky (not to mention pal of Georges Perec), will be at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary..."
April 18, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley
Playing for the People
More from director Steven Sebring on Patti Smith
"...did at the MoMA was a thing on [artist Georges] Seurat. She's always doing stuff like that. She'll stay..."
Aug. 22, 2008 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner
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Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature
Speaking in Tongues
When Dan Dietz 'lets go,' he turns gibberish into art. And he proves it in the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of MacWellman's nonsense play Terminal Hip.
"...blend the Hindenburg, The Brady Bunch, Sam Spade, and Georges Seurat's Pointillist masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of..."
March 24, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Tanith Lee's Adventure
From Fantasy to the French Revolution
"...AC: Now, Georges Danton was one of the major forces in the..."
