Exposure

"...Mandrake pursues Gisela's murderers/his attackers throughout Brazil and into Bolivia. It's a seemingly convoluted trail (but not really, when..."

Jan. 31, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh concludes his two-part biopic with Che's Bolivian endgame.

"...the dirt floor of a ramshackle hut in rural Bolivia, felled by a soldier’s bullets, he looks more like..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Lost City of Z

A futile quest for an extraordinary place

"...ancient lost civilization hidden in the uncharted jungles of Bolivia seldom rises to anything above a historical footnote here...."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Our Brand Is Crisis

Sandra Bullock shines in David Gordon Green's political comedy

"...cynical drama about soulless American political strategists spinning a Bolivian presidential election into a personal grudge match. Sandra Bullock..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Even the Rain

Amid citizen unrest in Bolivia, a Spanish film crew attempts to mount a revisionist history of Christopher Columbus.

"...revisionist history of Christopher Columbus amid citizen unrest in Bolivia – a location handpicked by financiers for its cheap..."

April 15, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Che: Part One

Steven Soderbergh’s filmmaking legacy is his aesthetic daring, and his latest – as massive and imperfect as it is – just might be his most daring work to date.

"...released separately, is about Che’s less successful efforts in Bolivia). And when I say “focuses,” I mean it. In..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Angels in South America

Round Rock-based Bolivian missionary project in crisis

"...Marroquin, a Catholic lay missionary, moved from Austin to Bolivia to establish a charity foundation to help some of..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Dan Selinger

The Hightower Lowdown

Hey, rich people steal, too! And, in Bolivia, the U.S. takes the wrong side ... again.

"...to "hate" America, say one word back to them: Bolivia...."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Capitol Chronicle

Would David Dewhurst really know a terrorist if he saw one?

"...stint as a Central Intelligence Agency case officer in Bolivia, from 1970-73. Dewhurst himself wasn't quite so vague. The..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

The war on drugs attacks poor Bolivian farmers, not drug kingpins; and Halliburton still has its snout in the war trough.

"...GETTING A CLUE FROM BOLIVIA..."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

Journey Woman

A young Austin nurse takes her skills and faith to Bolivia.

"...Cruz is a large, semiarid, semirainy region in eastern Bolivia, bordering Brazil and Paraguay. The province is best known..."

Oct. 31, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Utama D: Alejandro Loayza Grisi Bolivia/Uruguay/France, 87 min. In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Soccer Watch

Breaking down the Euro 2020 and the 2021 Copa América

"...Group A (South): Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia..."

June 25, 2021 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

Big Hearts for Big Cats

Lion rescue doc screens tonight at Stateside benefit

"...Bolivia passed a law in 2009 banning live animals in..."

May 25, 2014 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

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April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Cine Las Americas Film Festival Schedule

"...la Costa/The Road to the Coast" (D: Jose Sanchez; Bolivia, experimental, 3 min.); Midnight in Cuba (D: Dimitri Falk;..."

April 20, 2001 Screens Feature

Women Talking

Sarah Polley finds stunning drama in one simple night of conversations in a barn

"...2005 until 2009 in an ultraconservative Mennonite community in Bolivia: not by criminal interlopers, but by men within the..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Awaken

Malick-endorsed abstract world trip finds joy in our world

"...Chinese cormorant fisherman with his bird; masked revelers at Bolivia's Carnaval de Oruro...."

Aug. 27, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...or Thailand or Australia can support the people of Bolivia, who've just had their country destroyed by interventionism from..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Pushing the Borderline

AFS Essential Cinema highlights filmmakers far from home

"...To wit: A Spanish film crew journeys to Bolivia for the cheap labor in Even the Rain, only..."

June 3, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Horns, St. Ed's Stay Unbeaten, and More

Longhorns and Hilltoppers soccer squads stay unbeaten, plus more soccer news from here and afar

"...Argentina 1 - 1 Paraguay Ecuador 3 - 1 Bolivia Colombia 0 - 1 Uruguay Peru 1 - 0..."

Sept. 10, 2008 Sports Post by Nick Barbaro

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the Inter-American Development Bank during riotous street protests. In Bolivia, they interviewed Evo Morales, not yet the president, and..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

The Motorcycle Diaries

Young Che Guevara takes a road trip up the length of South America and discovers his humanity in this portrait of the future revolutionary as a young man.

"...outward-bounding seemed over half a century before, pre-Congo, pre-Cuba, pre-Bolivia, out on a mission, part quest, part lark, and..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Soccer Watch

Three cheers for the underdogs!

"...staging a late comeback to earn a draw against Bolivia, 2-2, and defending champ Colombia edging Venezuela 1-0. And..."

July 9, 2004 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

A Grin Without a Cat: Part 2

"...the New Left from the Russian Revolution to Vietnam, Bolivia, Prague, Chile, and elsewhere. In 1993, Marker revisted the..."

Oct. 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Grin Without a Cat: Part 1

"...the New Left from the Russian Revolution to Vietnam, Bolivia, Prague, Chile, and elsewhere. In 1993, Marker revisted the..."

Oct. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mom's Travel Advisories

Guerrillas, drug lords, landmines, limb loss, organ malfunction … According to my mother, these are just a few of the terrors that await me when I arrive in South America.

"...you going to wear a hat while you're in Bolivia? You should disguise your looks. Wear shades. Maybe I..."

June 15, 2001 Features Feature by Karla Zimmerman

Cine Las Américas Film Festival

"...by directors Angel Torres from Mexico, Jose Sanchez from Bolivia, and Esteban Zul, Vangie Greigo, and Albert Caballero from..."

April 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bringing Out the Dead

Swiss documentary maker Richard Dindo considers himself a "portraitist or biographer of those who are no longer with us." This week, he brings two films : about revolutionary Che Guevara and writer Jean Genet : to town as part of the Austin Film Society's Texas Documentary Tour.

"...the Texas Documentary Tour ... Ernesto "Che" Guevara: The Bolivian Diary (1994) and Genet at Chatila (1999) ... all..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Myth of Che

The Short Life of Revolutionary Che Guevara

"...Che's final campaign, to "liberate" Bolivia (in the wake of his failure to achieve exactly..."

July 11, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

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