Ask the Dust
2006, R, 117 min.
Directed by Robert Towne, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel.

Not reviewed at press time. No advance screening was arranged locally for this titan of Hollywood’s newest project. Robert Towne, the screenwriter (Chinatown, Shampoo) and occasional director (Personal Best), here adapts John Fante’s Depression-era novel about a first-generation Italian-American novelist and his life in Los Angeles. Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek provide the steam heat.

This article appears in March 31 • 2006.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.