Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.
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Naked Lunch
Leave it to Cronenberg to tackle William S. Burroughs’ notorious – and notoriously “unfilmable” – novel. Then add in a score by Ornette Coleman.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
The feisty Southern women of Fannie Flagg’s novel are portrayed by a fantastic cast.
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Europa Europa
In this award-winning foreign film, a Jewish boy during World War II adopts various non-Jewish identities in order to save his hide, but his uncircumcised penis becomes a dead giveaway.
