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Songbook

Hornby, Nick

screens

Down From the Mountain

There was no snow at Sundance this year, but a strong slate nonetheless.

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

It's a Wonderful Life

The Austin Film Society presents an evening in celebration of Sam Fuller.

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

Shelter From the Storm

Austin multimedia company Internal Machine outfits the Alamo Drafthouse North with a something better than Pepsi commercials.

BY MARC SAVLOV

Short Cuts

Savlov goes South by

BY MARC SAVLOV

TV Eye

Happy 300th, The Simpsons.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

Thunder Road

This film no doubt planted the seeds for more good ol' boy action pics, but Mitchum's story and charismatic screen presence make Thunder Road a ride to remember.

Film Reviews

Biker Boyz

Food of Love

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Set in 1931 Australia and based on a true event, Noyce's film shows what three half-caste aboriginal girls experience when they escape the camp where they have been forcibly sent in order to become anglicized. The music is by Peter Gabriel.

The Recruit

Talk to Her

Gone, with one major exception, are the delicious hysterics of Almodóvar's earlier works; Talk to Her is a mostly restrained, though by no means unemotional, work about two men in love with comatose women.

arts & culture

I Hear a Symphony

Composer Kent Kennan has been an essential voice in America's musical counterpoint since 1936 when he won the Prix de Rome Composition Prize. Now, at age 90, he'll hear the Austin Symphony play his composition for the very first time.

BY JERRY YOUNG

FronteraFest

On a wet and shivering Saturday night, FronteraFest offered something, finally, to combat the chill outside: the warmth of great performers.

BY SARAH HEPOLA

Articulations

Local theatre artists join a planetwide call for peace with the Lysistrata Project, the UT PAC's associate director leaves for Pittsburgh, and the Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center gets a room of its own.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Requiem for Tesla

Genius and madness are the ac and dc of inventor Nikola Tesla's life, as portrayed in the Rude Mechanicals' biographical tribute Requiem for Tesla, and this new version provides the atmosphere and quickening charge of an old Universal horror film.

Blanket: Ann Carlson

As an old woman shuffling rhythmically in slow, jagged lines across the stage, accompanied by an audio montage of media snippets, instructional tapes, and music, contemporary dance artist Ann Carlson explores the way memory shapes narrative and time in Blanket.

Secreto y Malibu: Diana Szeinblum

Secreto y Malibu, choreographed by Argentine avant-garde artist Diana Szeinblum, illustrates the rare depth of closeness between two secluded women through cutting-edge choreography and the bravura of dancers Leticia Mazur and Ines Rampoldi.

In On It: da da kamera

As presented by da da kamera at the Fresh Terrain performance festival, Daniel MacIvor's In On It provided a beautiful and quirky evocation of chance, choice, love, and life's inevitable drift (or plummet) toward death.

Drummer Wanted: Richard Maxwell

Drummer Wanted, Richard Maxwell's drama of a young garage musician's relationship with his mother while recovering from a broken leg was memorable, but chiefly for the distinctively expressionless, uninflected style of delivery that called to mind really bad acting on purpose.

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