Jungle Holocaust
Jungle Holocaust 1978, R, 88 min. Directed by Ruggero Deodato, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Sheik Razak Shikur. Controversial Italian cannibal picture focuses on lost white men in the New Guinea jungle.
Tender Flesh
Tender Flesh 1974, R, 99 min. Directed by Laurence Harvey, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Laurence Harvey, Meg Foster, John Ireland, Stuart Whitman. Harvey’s final film is also known as Welcome to Arrow Beach. He plays a Korean war vet who ate flesh in the jungle and now, back in the States, just…
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Holocaust 1979, X, 98 min. Directed by Ruggero Deodato, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen. The Alamo North presents the Southern U.S. premiere of this previously banned film that has been recently remastered and restored under the auspices of Sage Stallone (Sly’s brother). Hyped as a cannibal…
Austin Bike-In Theatre
Austin Bike-In Theatre NR. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Austin Bike-In Theatre is a free, weekly outdoor series that shows movies and short films along with other live entertainment and variety acts. This week’s show includes short films by Jan Svankmajer that were shown during last year’s Cinematexas Film…
Son of Godzilla
Son of Godzilla 1967, G, 86 min. Directed by Jun Fukuda, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda. Radioactivity causes Godzilla and son to be threatened by giant mantises and a huge spider in this light-hearted monster picture.
Hands of the Ripper
Hands of the Ripper 1972, R, 87 min. Directed by Peter Sasdy, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Keith Bell. Not surprisingly, Jack the Ripper’s daughter grows up to be a bit twisted after she witnesses her father murdering her mother.
Latino Immigrants in Action
Latino Immigrants in Action NR. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . The Latino Immigrants in Action, a grassroots immigrant rights organization based in East Austin, will screen Austin filmmaker Heather Courtney’s documentary Los Trabajadores/The Workers. Winner of an Audience Award at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, The Workers follows a…
Cinemakids
Cinemakids 2001, NR. Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . Cinemakids 2001 is a non-competition program of short films, videos, and computer animations created by youth 18 and younger from around the world. The weekend event consists of screenings, workshops, and panels. Screenings will be held Saturday and Sunday, 12-1:15pm, at…
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 1999, NR, 41 min. Directed by David Lickley, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Marc Strange. Gold Fever explores the human obsession with the precious metal. The globe-trotting movie follows a modern-day prospector in the Yukon, who treks along the Klondike Trail 100 years after the big Gold Rush.
La Collectionneuse
La Collectionneuse 1967, NR, 88 min. Directed by Eric Rohmer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bauchau. “Love and Morality: The Films of Eric Rohmer” is an eight-film survey of films by the cerebral French master. In La Collectionneuse, a self-deluding art dealer becomes obsessed with ignoring…
Coach’s Corner
Coach relates NFL football tips he picked up from a delusional wino he met in a bar in Colorado.
Music in the 1990s
More than anything else, the Chronicle started as a music publication. Some of the Nineties staff talk about the last decade. Andy Langer All I really need to know I learned at the Chronicle, but for the longest time, my age was a don’t-ask, don’t-tell issue. I never lied, I just never answered. I was…
The Golf Cart Story
The oral history of the Great Chronicle Lakeway Golf Cart Raid
20 Years and Counting
Chapter 1: 9/81-8/82 Chapter 2: 9/82-8/88 Chapter 3: 9/88-8/91 Chapter 4: 9/91-12/00 Chapter 5: 1/01-9/01
Chapter 1: Before the Beginning
The Austin Chronicle is founded and struggles quite a bit.
Contributors
Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue
Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud
1982-83 Chronicle History: By August of 1982, Sarah Whistler had moved out of Austin, Joe Dishner had left to go into film production, and Ed Lowry had just headed off to teach at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. Louis Black was still ostensibly a graduate student, Nick Barbaro was more or less living…
Letters at 20 Years
Some “Postmarks” writers just don’t know when to quit … god bless ’em.
Politics
Austin: Growth caused certain issues to explode; roads, schools, the airport, city services, and the environment were impacted. Austin was a boom town. State Sen. Lloyd Doggett gets waxed by Rep. Phil Gramm in the Reagan-landslide race for John Tower’s Senate seat. Gonzalo Barrientos takes Doggett’s place. Chronicle Content: In the earliest editorial meetings, it…
Letters at 20 Years
Alice Kennedy Spooner “That’s been a long time ago,” Alice Kennedy Spooner says of her few years in the early 1950s as an obstetrics nurse at Austin’s public Brackenridge hospital. “I never did see lung cancer, and I don’t know that it exists. And I never did see nobody have a cancer of the big…
The First SXSW
Roland Swenson Because of my background promoting shows and booking bands, I began working on sponsored music events for the Chronicle. I worked with local radio stations to run advertising for events and for each issue of the Chronicle. I became the unofficial “music business guy” on the staff. I was involved with a group…
Letters at 20 Years
Amy Babich She’s loved, she’s hated. She’s a visionary, she’s a loopy idiot. She’s striking a blow for environment and community, she’s in my damn way. Opinions on The Austin Chronicle’s most prolific letter writer tend to be quite polarized, but one thing is for sure: They get attention. Amy Babich, who you’ve probably seen…
Married to the Mob
Editor Louis Black and Publisher Nick Barbaro both married former Chronicle food writers. Black is married to Anne Lewis Black. S. Emerson (Susan) Moffat, Black’s former college girlfriend, later married Nick Barbaro. Barbaro was previously married to Kathleen Maher, who wrote, edited, typeset, and was generally indispensable to the paper throughout its first decade. Margaret…
Letters at 20 Years
Paul Aviña There are three things you can say about Paul Aviña: One, he always has something to say, as “Postmarks” readers very well know. Two, he’s extraordinarily trusting. When presented with questions for this interview, he graciously answered the most basic ones, then offered responses to questions he suggested this writer should have asked.…
Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly
September 1988 Austin: The town slows down. The next couple of years will see the consequences of the bust followed by a slowly recovering economy. Austin politics will be forever defined by the June 7, 1990, City Council meeting about development affecting Barton Creek, which lasts until past 3am. In its spare time, the city…
Letters at 20 Years
Kurt Standiford Stop the presses! Kurt Standiford, the fire-and-brimstone writer of countless anti-gay letters, is not homophobic after all. That’s just a misnomer that all the Sodomites and their minions created for good Christians like Kurt. Talk about blame-shifting McCarthyism! “That’s a hang-the-straw-man kind of deal,” says Standiford. “I’m a Christian. I’m not homophobic.” Whew!…
Stevie Ray Vaughan
He was this scrawny 28-year-old kid bouncing around his South Austin apartment, getting ready to leave that day for superstardom and the great wide open. It was June 1983, and Stevie Ray Vaughan had recently quit David Bowie’s outfit to play his own music — to support his debut, Texas Flood, which had just come…
Naked City
News Shorts
The Musketeer
The Musketeer 2001, PG-13, 105 min. Directed by Peter Hyams, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Justin Chambers, Tim Roth, Stephen Rea, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stefan Jürgens, Jan Gregor Kremp, Stepve Speirs. Immediately after sitting through Peter Hyams’ resourcefully awful “reimagining” of Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale of King Louis, Cardinal Richelieu, and the…
Page Two
Why we have a golf cart in a swimming pool on our cover and other insights into our 20th anniversary issue.
The AIDS Quilt Cover
The most painful event of the Eighties was the death of Ed Lowry in October 1985. He was one of the Chronicle’s original founders, a statement which only begins to describe his influence on this paper and those who knew him. He was a friend and teacher, whose knowledge of and passion for film was…
All Over the Guy
All Over the Guy 2001, R, 94 min. Directed by Julie Davis, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dan Bucatinsky, Richard Ruccolo, Adam Goldberg, Doris Roberts, Andrea Martin, Sasha Alexander, Lisa Kudrow, Christina Ricci. Like most freakish accidents, falling in love is sometimes just a matter of good timing. In the romantic comedy All…
Look Ma, No Hands!
How the underground press evolved into the alternative press.
Chapter 4: The Nineties!
Austin: The recovery blossoms into the second boom. The first half of the Nineties is growth, but the second half is explosion. The town grows into a city and then into a big city, known to people worldwide. The Manor airport dies a natural death, but the Bergstrom option saves the day. Austin finally breaks…
Rock Star
Rock Star 2001, R, 110 min. Directed by Stephen Herek, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dominic West, Jason Flemyng, Timothy Olyphant, Jennifer Aniston, Mark Wahlberg. Coming of age during the Eighties, kids had two obvious paths as far as musical development went. If you were cool, you were into rap. And if you…
Day Trips
Now it can be told! The Secret Origin of former Chron mascot Belton!
Jennifer Scoville
I’ve done so many different jobs at the Chronicle that if there was a contest, I feel sure I would win. You should see my résumé. Three lines down there it is: another heading doesn’t appear again until the bottom of the page. That’s what happens when you get a job straight out of college…
Thomas in Love
Thomas in Love 2001, NR, 97 min. Directed by Pierre-Paul Renders, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Alexandre Von Sivers, Frédéric Topart, Micheline Hardy, Magali Pinglaut, Aylin Yay, Benoît Verhaert. For a film that takes place entirely within the confines of the main character’s computer screen, the Belgian Thomas in Love is amazingly interesting…
Mr. Smarty Pants
Offering a tiny array of minutiae as thoughtfood
Laxman Gani
Sometime in 1994, the Web started emerging out of its academic nursery and into the world at large. The Chronicle reported on this phenomenon with wonder. Sparked by encouragement from readers and the Internet’s DIY attitude, we began building a Chronicle Web site; this didn’t require much debate, it simply had to be done. So,…
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Vertical Ray of the Sun 2000, PG-13, 112 min. Directed by Anh Hung Tran, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ngoc Dung Le, Le Tuan Anh, Manh Cuong Tran, Chu Hung, Quang Hai Ngo, Le Khanh, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Tran Nu Yên-Khê. If there is a heaven, I hope it looks like Vertical Ray…
After a Fashion
Exciting new things on the horizon for “After a Fashion.” Check inside for a sneak preview!
Interns
Kate X Messer The interns saved my life tonight, Sugarbear. Their youthful spirit, their dorky idealism … In early 1996, I got my first taste of editing responsibilities at the Chronicle. Sweet comrade Julie Weaver was in a horrific car wreck, and I was given her responsibilities as Listings queen until her return. Soon, I…
Big Eden
Big Eden 2000, PG-13, 118 min. Directed by Thomas Bezucha, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Nan Martin, O’Neal Compton, Louise Fletcher, George Coe, Tim Dekay, Corinne Bohrer. The instant he returns home to his boyhood cabin in the sylvan hamlet of Big Eden, Montana, Henry Hart (Gross) jumps out…
To Your Health
I recently had my annual physical, and my pap smear was abnormal. My doctor will do another test in six weeks, but I am a little worried. Does this mean I have cancer?
Chapter 5: An Ongoing Odyssey
Twenty years of The Austin Chronicle: the final chapter and coda
About AIDS
No cheap HIV treatment pill in the U.S.
Coda
August 21, 2001 To: Margaret Moser From: Joe Dishner Re: On Why I Can’t Write Anything for The Austin Chronicle 20th Anniversary Issue Dear Margaret, It was great hearing your voice this morning. Sorry I didn’t respond to your earlier message about the 20th anniversary issue. I was on vacation in NYC with the family…
