1945

Hungary's Holocaust culpability unearthed in one small village.

"...works of Hungarian cinema have found their successor in 1945, a new film that takes an unflinching look at..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Ian McLagan 1945-2014

Faces/Small Faces mainstay moved to Austin in 1994

Dec. 3, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Steven Fromholz 1945-2014

Onetime Poet Laureate of Texas dies in a hunting accident

Jan. 20, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Sleep

"...earlier version of the film which was completed in 1945 and retooled after a combination of some disastrous test..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Occupied City

A portrait of Amsterdam now and under Nazi occupation

"...encyclopedic book, Atlas van een bezette stad : Amsterdam 1940-1945 (Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945), a nearly..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Aftermath

Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgård are stuck inside of Hamburg with the Casablanca blues

"...A love triangle emerges amid the ruins of 1945 Hamburg, Germany, in this well-appointed but stale postwar drama...."

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

In This Corner of the World

The life of a Japanese girl during wartime

"...runs all the way from 1933 to August of 1945, Katabuchi, who co-scripted with Chie Uratani (notably both are..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kong: Skull Island

The big ape is back

"...whose P-51 ditched on the beach way back in 1945. That’s the prologue. Here’s the pitch meeting as I..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Land of Mine

A viscerally intense anti-war film

"...In May of 1945, the sandy beaches along the western coast of Denmark..."

March 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Natalie Portman adapts Amos Oz's acclaimed memoir

"...plays Amos – beginning on a harrowing note in 1945 and ending in 1952 with a melancholy denouement. His..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Royal Night Out

Fictional romp about the Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth on V-E Day

"...reimagines the exhilarating nighttime V-E Day jubilation in May 1945 during which two sheltered princesses mingle with commoners for..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Phoenix

In postwar Germany, a woman with a reconfigured face reclaims her identity

"...being the superficial reminder of her nightmarish ordeal. It’s 1945, the war is over, and Nelly, a former cabaret..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Teenage

Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.

"...Jon Savage’s 2007 book Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, this is an artistic consideration of the conceptualization of..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wolverine

With perma-snarl intact, Hugh Jackman is back as the Wolverine hunts new prey in Japan.

"...shielded from the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now on his deathbed nearly 70 years later, the..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brideshead Revisited

It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.

"...convert, would have endorsed this accomplished adaptation of his 1945 novel about the pre-World War II chasmic divides of..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Baxter

Director Showalter (Comedy Central's Stella) misses a terrific opportunity to pull back the curtain on "the other guy" – the Baxter is the lead man's second fiddle in your standard romantic comedy – and ends up making a pretty good case for why the sad sack never gets the girl.

"...sound like people living in the year 2005, not 1945, and the effect is, if not jarring, then certainly..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

"...Hitler’s private secretary from 1942 until his suicide in 1945. For close to 60 years, Junge has remained silent..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wax, Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees

"...nuclear explosion, which occurred on his birthday, July 16, 1945 (coincidentally the movie opens in Austin on July 16);..."

July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Barefoot Gen

"...prelude comes to a screeching halt on August 6, 1945 at 8:15am in the vivid, apocalyptic nightmare of the..."

Feb. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Uranus

"...Blanc. What did you do during the war? It's 1945 in a little town in France after the Liberation...."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1900

"...Verdi in 1900 and the death of Mussolini in 1945. It begins at the eclipse of feudalism and ends..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Austin Film Society Documentary Tour

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

"...On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped "Little Boy," a 15-kiloton uranium..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Try To Remember

How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical

"...Pat Hingle, actor, 1945-49..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Few Good Women: America's Military Women From World War I to the War in Iraq and Afghanistan

While the ambition to cover the history of women's service since World War I is noble, its delivery often overwhelms

"...after paragraph succumbing to dateline laziness: "On 20 October 1945 ...," "In late October 1945 ...," "In November 1945..."

April 2, 2010 Books Review by Kate X Messer

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...the Thin Man, 1941; The Thin Man Goes Home, 1945; and Song of the Thin Man, 1947), which fade..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Guest From the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin

by Gyogy Dalos

"...reverberations (real and imagined) of Akhmatova's lone visit in 1945 with the British historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin, the..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Review by Scott Blackwood

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945)..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Anselm

Two postwar German masters: one in front, one behind the camera

"...thought experiment to imagine what that other child of 1945, the perennially nosy and cheerfully intrusive Werner Herzog, would..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Do Your Part. Get Vaccinated. Do It Now.

Where to find the COVID vaccine in Austin

"...can find additional Travis County vaccine events online at traviscountytx.gov/news/2020/1945-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-information#vaccine, including a weekly vaccine distribution at Travis County Expo..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

There Is No Evil

Iranian anthology walks the line between life and death

"...still creepy and much-imitated ventriloquist’s dummy segment in the 1945 British horror anthology Dead of Night? — the “Birthday”..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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