Life After Death

A new life for almost-forgotten author Mary Gavell

"...in "A Vocabulary Study of Early Texas English," her 1943 thesis. "There were no words for such commonplaces as..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...screenplay for which the father won an Oscar in 1943, the year of Aram's birth. Aram's Jewish mother Carol..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Jubilee Jewels

Modern chamber pieces by such composers as Leos Janácek, Joseph Jongen, Andre Jolivet, and Harald Genzmer received a good airing at Austin Chamber Music Festival's Jubilee Jewel concert..

"...pastorale, his Trio for Flute, Bassoon, Harp, penned in 1943. Amid the seasonal sweetness was, again, a melancholic, yet..."

July 13, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Structuralist, Collagist, and Surrealist Film: The Poetics of Avant-Garde Cinema

"...Radio Dynamics (1943) D: Oscar Fischinger. (4 min.)..."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature

'Great' Gen an' Their 'Good' War

"...his friend Alfred Perles called The Renegade, published in 1943. The novel's narrator is reciting to a woman some..."

May 25, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Working Girls

What do the eight films in the Austin Film Society's latest free series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s" have in common? They are all works by inherently feminist filmmakers, and the chronological order of the series tracks the growth of American feminist thought during these two decades.

"...and champion of personal expression is Maya Deren, whose 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon is a cornerstone work..."

May 18, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...I would take my seat at Carnegie Hall in 1943 when Duke Ellington would premiere Black, Brown, and Beige..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Suggested Viewing

"...The Children Are Watching Us (1943, Vittorio De Sica) This tearjerker about a young orphan's..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Out and About

13th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival

"...Nazi soldier who fell for a Jewish lesbian in 1943 Berlin. Maria Schrader is a marvel as her lover,..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Eating Between the Lines

Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking

"...Last House: Reflections, Dreams, and Observations, her writings from 1943-1991...."

June 2, 2000 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Not Boxed In

Although filmmaker Carlos Avila grew up in Echo Park, only 10 miles from Hollywood, it couldn't have seemed farther away. With Price of Glory, Avila has finally arrived.

"...short film "Distant Water," a coming-of-age story set in 1943 Los Angeles. The short won the Grand Prix award..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...screening is a personal favorite and bears noting: it's 1943's Val Lewton-produced, Jacques Tourneur-directed RKO masterpiece I Walked with..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Day Trips

All sixty-eight years and 170 members of the "the world's longest-running Western Swing band" are covered at the LIght Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum in Mesquite, Texas.

"...His grandfather started the McWhorter Hardware store in 1943. The Greenhaw name was added to the marquee in..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Day Trips

Rockport captures the sea breeze and the hearts of visitors.

"...who often responded to her letters with disbelief. By 1943 she had convinced the world that this was the..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two

The next four days will be the hardest three weeks of the year.

"...point of view. Set on the Russian front in 1943, it would have been too much to have them..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...9:55pm) -- Kate X Messer SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Exhibitionism

Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander: Time Passages

"...to black and white attitudes in the South in 1943. Missing, too, is any soft, ameliorating finale. The play's..."

July 23, 1999 Arts Review

Scanlines

The Haunting

"...(If I Had a Million, (1932), Flesh and Fantasy (1943). Unlike most of the standard Hollywood studio shorts produced..."

July 23, 1999 Screens Feature

Afs Summer Free-for-all: a Tribute to George Morris

"...1950) July 6 Day of Wrath (D: Carl Dreyer, 1943) July 13 An American in Paris (D: Vincente Minnelli,..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...a fine one at that -- in business since 1943...."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Record Reviews

Duke Ellington

"...Brown, & Beige, originally performed at Carnegie Hall in 1943. This suite, available on the Prestige label, is a..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature

Digital Duke: Best of the Rest

"...although alternate takes and live stuff aren't included. Ellington's 1943, '44, '46, and '47 Carnegie Hall concerts are on..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature

What? 1998's Over?

Nine Tv Faces We'll Miss

"...6. Mary Frann (1943-1998). Frann got the break of her career when she..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...accordion player, Isidro Samilpa, moved to South Austin in 1943, followed shortly by local conjunto king Camilo Cantu. For..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...destiny" which was partly filmed during the Occupation, between 1943-1945. The fact that the plot centers around the stiff..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

John Denver

"...1943-1997..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Music Feature

Short Cuts

"...One Million B.C., preceded by Part One of the 1943 Batman serial. For up-to-date info call 472-5470......"

May 30, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christopher Isherwood

The Diaries

"...fact Isherwood was considering becoming a monk from early 1943 to April 1944. This may help explain passages like..."

April 4, 1997 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Janis Joplin, Texas, and the Big Beat

How East Texas Shaped Rock's First Female Superstar

"...must have been in full-tilt hysterics on January 19, 1943 when the oil refinery seaport of Port Arthur, Texas,..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TFAA Director Sandra Greagor Igniting a Fire for the Arts

"...the organization and later given to the city. In 1943, Clara Driscoll donated her home on Lake Austin to..."

July 28, 1995 Arts Feature

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