This week on The Austin Chronicle Show, we contemplate Beto, the blue wave, and our favorite women film directors.

News editor Mike Clark-Madison drops into the KOOP studio to discuss his cover story “Blue, Sweat & Beers: Beto O’Rourke on the Long Road to the Texas Primary” (on stands now). The candidate in question, Beto O’Rourke, is appearing at this weekend’s Texas Tribune Festival; Mike also points to a few other TribFest speakers you’ll want to catch in person or via livestream.

Then Chronicle Screens editor Richard Whittaker and Special Screenings editor Beth Sullivan join me to talk about women in film in honor of Woman Director Awareness Month. We rattle off some of our very favorites in the horror, coming of age, and romantic-comedy genres, and cap it off with some recommendations for 2019 films directed by women that might have slipped under your radar.

FURTHER READING:
• Mike Clark-Madison’s story from the campaign trail, “Blue, Sweat & Beers: Beto O’Rourke on the Long Road to the Texas Primary”
• Ethan Hawke’s 2018 interview with Beto O’Rourke for the Chronicle
• MCM’s dispatches from TribFest 2019
• More women director recommendations from Austin women in film Holly Herrick (head of Film and Creative Media at Austin Film Society), Chelsea Hernandez (director, Building the American Dream), Meredith Johns (special effects artist and co-founder of Hawgfly Productions), and Tracy Frazier (director, Becoming Leslie).
• Me on the death of Nora Ephron, and the dumb critical debasement of romantic comedies


SHOW CREDITS
Host: Kim Jones. Guest: Mike Clark-Madison, Beth Sullivan, and Richard Whittaker. Engineer: Evan Hearn. Theme music: Kevin Curtin and Jonas Wilson.

Catch The Austin Chronicle Show live Fridays, 3pm, on KOOP 91.7 FM.

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This article appears in September 27 • 2019.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...