SXSW Film Review: Frame by Frame

Powerful doc about the vitalness of photojournalists

"...danger continue to ripple through the country's photography rebirth. Frame by Frame delicately inter-weaves the lives of four photojournalists,..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...since his death in 2006 at 88. The 200 framed prints include 28 from the HRC's extensive Newman collection,..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Frame by Frame: The Art and Technique of Film Animation

"...Frame by Frame: The Art and Technique of Film Animation..."

April 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beyond the Frame

Curator Elizabeth Dunbar likes art that punches through the gallery walls

"...community. Their work can't be contained within a four-cornered frame. It punches through art's conventions and traditions to find..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend

Big Medium, Co-Lab, Tiny Park, MASS Gallery: Four in Legion

"...It’s called FRAME...."

May 15, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art City Austin Is More Fun Than Just Another Frame-Up

Annual extravaganza fills the Palmer and beyond with creativity

April 9, 2018 Arts Post by Memory Harker

Frame Job: Carson Brock

Former U18er steps into another league on new full-length

"...into the major leagues with his new LP, Finding Frames...."

March 26, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Frame's the Thing

Art duo creates art from frames

"...a group of new works composed entirely of concentric frames. The gilded edge is the content. A craft project..."

Feb. 23, 2009 Arts Post by Andy Campbell

Frame of 'Reference'

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

His Shadow in the Frame

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Robert Frank Photographs" provides an excellent introduction to Frank's career from his early social documentary work to his introspective images of later decades, and shows him always striving in his images to reflect his deeply personal response to the world around him.

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Erina Duganne

An Angel at My Table

"...about the life of celebrated New Zealand author Janet Frame. But Frame's life story is anything but your typical..."

Sept. 20, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

Veering from moments of breathtakingly visualized valor to outright stupidity, Sith is a vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it’s no Star Wars.

"...Dykstra’s immensely conceptualized Imperial Star Destroyer, seen rolling into frame from below like some gargantuan, unfathomable sea creature gives..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle-Ready

This fall, history nerds will have cause to rejoice when the History Channel presents First Invasion: The War of 1812, a collaboration with local post-production facility Match Frame.

"...of Austin- and San Antonio-based post-production artistic behemoth Match Frame, which, in the company's biggest creative coup to date,..."

June 13, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Through an Afghan Lens Darkly

In Frame by Framefour photojournalists navigate a newly free press in Afghanistan

"...Most of what we know about Afghanistan has been framed for us through someone's viewfinder. Against the backdrop of..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Onegin

"...from the filmmakers, something other than splendor served up frame-by-frame...."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Bryan Poyser

Green Snake

"...to his more fantastic Chinese Ghost Story roots, filling frame after frame with a riot of brilliant colors and..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Custody

"...for Urdu (and, occasionally, Keats as well) fills the frame, and his skill as a director is on full..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Current War - Director's Cut

The birth of the modern age in a battle of industrialists

"...(Cumberbatch as a vast personality, barely contained within the frame) decides to go home, rather than stop his personal..."

Oct. 25, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Angel Has Fallen

An unexpected twist in the franchise is all for the better

"...hold off the (blessedly Caucasian) mercenary forces trying to frame him...."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sunset

Period drama keeps the techniques of Oscar winner Son of Saul but loses the emotional weight

"...behind. Her image remains in the foreground of the frame; everything in mid-to-background distance is blurred. Staring at the..."

April 26, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alita: Battle Angel

The manga heroine comes to motion capture life

"...stabs at female empowerment. Alita: Battle Angel wants to frame its futuristic Pinocchio narrative around a story of teenage..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Becoming Astrid

Pippi Longstocking creator's life story isn't for kids

"...grace is Alba August. She is in almost every frame of this film, and gives life to what, on..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Adrift

True-life survival adventure stays afloat because of Shailene Woodley

"...is to come. Woodley, who appears in nearly every frame of Adrift, is equal to the task and reaffirms..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Portrait of the artist as a young man is more a portrait of NYC.

"...Basquiat’s presence remains a ghostly whisper just outside the frame. And maybe that’s appropriate, because it’s representative of what..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Fashionista

UK-to-ATX transplant Simon Rumley's thriftstore mystery

"...all manner of apparel, filling the edges of every frame. It soon becomes clear that April has a special..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

In the Fade

Revenge, German immigration, and neo-Nazis clash

"...following a catastrophic loss is palpable in nearly every frame of this German export. Kruger is Katja, wife to..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

LBJ

Harrelson dons prosthetics for this complicated biopic

"...Using the fateful day of Nov. 22, 1963, to frame a series of flashbacks depicting LBJ’s frustrated tenure as..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lucky

Cranky loner (and beloved character actor) faces mortality

"...his passing in September, Stanton’s face fills near every frame – a face, famously hangdog even in the bloom..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Loving Vincent

A lushly painted but boring story of the life of the famous artist

"...Seven years of production, 125 artists lovingly rendering every frame, and who knows how many babies were born during..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Trip to Spain

Exquisite food with a side of comedy and pathos

"...even the sat nav. In a startling, last-reel freeze frame, the male ego pops like a balloon, and I..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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