SXSW Film Review: 'Above All Else'

John Fiege delivers a devastating, beautifully shot doc

"...Proverbs 4:23 says, “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Freedom Fighters' and 'Above All Else'

Crowdsourcing gets political in this week's projects

"...stories are increasingly getting attention on screens big and small. And it's stories like this one that let us..."

May 10, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Film Review: 'Above All Else'

March 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...to hell, as Argento’s supremely distasteful (but no less challenging or accomplished) film describes the ever-decreasing maelstrom of psychic..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All Times Through Paradise

Introducing Austin's patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia

"...You shall preserve me from trouble..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

All Over the Place

Surveying the Geezerville landscape

"...As expected, last Friday’s North Mississippi All Stars show at Antone’s was a barn burner. Openers..."

Jan. 21, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

One Size Doesn't Fit All

City Land Code Revisions

"...John Castellanos finally had enough money to incarnate his dream, or so..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Rise Above

SST Records' Greg Ginn jams econo in Taylor, Texas

"...Convention and Visitors Bureau in Taylor. There's nothing at all, really, save a vintage two-screen cinema, fitting considering the..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

It's All in the Game

"...to view from space. Around the world, markets crashed. Above the world, the international space station lost thrust. In..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Screens Feature by Marcel Meyer

Swoop House’s Hospitality Honcho Has All the Luck

Stephen Shallcross carries on with Happy Foods and De Nada and more

"...that, when some successful person tells you they've been really lucky, usually what they're being is politely humble. Unless..."

Oct. 30, 2020 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

It's All History

The Rise and Fall of Cedar Street

"...known as the architect who lives on Sixth Street (above, really) and wields no small amount of power when..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Faster Than Sound: All Is New for Photokem, Freshly Graduated and Buzz Cut

On the senior-year making of inquisitive debut EP Luffon Bright

"...poster of Seventies Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail above the toilet, a basketball idling by the front door,..."

July 8, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Page Two: We're All Monsters Here

On the subject of this year's Halloween cover

"...issue's cover though it speaks quite eloquently if not brutally for itself. It makes a certain fantasy explicit, that..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Column by Louis Black

All Over Creation: A Brief History of Laugh Riots in Austin

As April overflows with comedy festivals, an overview of Austin's celebrations of funny

"...Eliot's poetic puss: April may be the cruelest month elsewhere, but in our town, it's damn near the funniest...."

April 13, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Back in the Realm of the Senses and Provoking All Five

AFS Essential Cinema presents Smashing the Rules: Films of Oshima Nagisa

"...nation of anxious people, and they could do nothing individually, so they went mad en masse."..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s

A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life

"...order. (Should it concern me that my Top 10 all found me by age 15?)..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Lee & Carole & Brewster & All of Us ...

Five candidates for mayor jockey to be first among equals

"...us are raised to believe, the mayor isn't the be-all and end-all of local politics. In Austin, Hizzoner or..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Look, Ma, All Hands

Hammer & Tongs on why their Eighties-era childhood epic Son of Rambow is the anti-CGI

"...a) UK slang of ancient Celtic vintage originally forged by vigorously enthusiastic smithies getting it on whilst..."

May 16, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: All in the Family

Debunking the hippie Mafia theory, and starting to say goodbye to Rollo Banks

"...you are on the stretch of road that is all road. There is motion but no time. You are..."

April 20, 2007 Column by Louis Black

All Aboard for Middle Earth

Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien needn't wait until the December 12 opening of the film of Lord of the Rings to take a journey to Middle Earth. Second Youth Family Repertory Theatre, an Austin arts company acclaimed for its intelligent, highly theatrical stage shows for family audiences, will ferry you there this weekend via its production of The Hobbit.

"...you know who lives in a cozy little hole called Bag End, if you experience an involuntary shudder at..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where Have All the Cowgirls Gone?

Austin's Female Country Singers

"...Barn, 1960. About 14 people saw her that night, all of us spread out over the echoing dance hall..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

The Opposite of Sex

"...anger towards his conniving step-sister, Bill mopes, pines, and finally throws up his hands in dismay until -- presto!..."

July 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Faraway, So Close

"...another talented director subject to the filmic misfires that occasionally plague everyone else. Faraway starts out fine, as we..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Peaceful Warrior

It's mostly hoo-hah, but there are moments in this New Agey, feel-semi-good crowd-pleaser that rise above and beyond the gymnastics and psychobabble.

"...Olympic hopeful Dan Millman (Mechlowicz) both relatively earthbound and emotionally constrained. His force is a tad too forceful, you..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sixth Sense

"...It's all too easy to pigeonhole Bruce Willis into one of..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mon Homme

"...time and again that she loves her chosen profession above all else, despite the fact that there's an emotional..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Society Announces 2013 Grants

$116,000 awarded to Texas filmmakers

"...Hellions, environmentalists and vintage computer programmers all make the list of movies to receive a helping..."

Aug. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

D-League Dreams

All roads lead to Toros training camp

"...This past weekend marked the opening of the National Basketball Association Development League's 2006-2007 season, the league's sixth and..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Sports Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Full Tilt Boogie

"...Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn breaks down the fourth wall between audience and performers and then proceeds to devour..."

July 31, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

"...when it comes to porn, right after “Why do all the guys look like either Paulie Walnuts or Big..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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