The Strangler

Restored French serial killer flick is more Albert Camus than Freddy Krueger

"...French titles, The Strangler/ L'étrangleur, a knowing reference to Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece The Stranger/L'Étranger. Émile is only interesting..."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Strangerer

Bush 43 ponders murder and existentialism while debating Kerry in this ambitious comedy from Capital T

"...context of the challenging work of French existential writer Albert Camus, and creates a play that takes place during..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Juan Capistran

Visiting artist's double exhibition at UT VAC digs deep into cultural identity

"...Believe: Towards a Higher Fidelity," the artist riffs philosopher Albert Camus and Black Panther Huey P.Newton off each other,..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 27 - February 2

"...the last year of his life, but French author Albert Camus beat him by one vote. Camus said Kazantzakis..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, November 26 - December 2

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author and philosopher Albert Camus was a good thinker. At age 44, he..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, August 13-19

"...23-Nov. 21): A biography of Nobel Prize-winning Scorpio author Albert Camus noted that he had two modes. They are..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly June 25 - July 1

"...ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Albert Camus advised everyone to "steal some time and give..."

June 25, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Jay Trachtenberg's Top Reads of 2015

A Brief History of Seven Killings leads a list of works exploring crime and politics abroad and at home

"...Kamel Daoud (translated by John Cullen). He cleverly revisits Albert Camus' 1942 existential masterpiece The Stranger, this time through..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 23-29

"...LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus wrote, "Great feelings bring with them their own..."

July 23, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 15-21

"...tremendous energy merely to be normal," wrote Scorpio author Albert Camus. If you're one of those folks, I'm happy..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 3-9

"...wish I would write more like Cormac McCarthy or Albert Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. They accuse..."

July 3, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Politics of Slasher Black Christmas

The Canadian classic was about more than gore

"...literally and metaphorically, and – in the words of Albert Camus – their very existence becomes an act of..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Capital T Theatre's It Is Magic

This captivating staging of Mickle Maher's comedy debates theatre's enchantments where Macbeth meets "The Three Little Pigs"

"...Spirits to Enforce, or the Bush-Kerry presidential debates and Albert Camus in The Strangerer. This work is no different...."

Nov. 15, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Bill Paxton’s Lost Film Ties Together UT, Bob Fosse, and William S. Burroughs

Cut up, chopped and screwed: The long path to Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited

"...an indie art movie. Inspired by William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and the Beat poets, they would..."

Aug. 9, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Altamesa Maps Lone Star Existentialism on Sophomore Stunner Idol Frontier

Evan Charles and Sean Faires brave the myth of the Southwest

"...the fatalistic ending to his preoccupation with French philosopher Albert Camus, particularly his suicide-questioning The Myth of Sisyphus...."

Feb. 8, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Luv Doc: A Very Honest Person

The Luv Doc is uncomfortable with the idea of a "hall pass"

"...Damn dude. There is just so much here to..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Holy Wave

"...vox, super spaced out between chugging interludes for an Albert Camus-inspired commentary on betrayal. Working through accents of shoegaze..."

April 13, 2018 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

DVDanger: Willard

1970s rat insanity and its sequel, plus Catfight

"...all the more madcap. A manic shotgun blast, like Albert Camus writing Looney Tunes...."

July 29, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Song About Himself

Walt Whitman's spirit logs on to social media with imagination in this Mickle Maher drama

"...Tempest in Spirits to Enforce, the Bush-Kerry debates and Albert Camus in The Strangerer, both produced by Capital T),..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2015

Wild theatrical energy and masterful performances were the hallmarks of outstanding theatre in 2015

"...bizarre impulse led playwright Mickle Maher to mash up Albert Camus and the 2004 presidential race, we're grateful. It..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cine Las Americas Announces Opening and Closing Night Films

Full lineup still to come

"...a Mexican theatrical company putting on a production of Albert Camus’ Caligula. Closing the fest will be Pelo Malo..."

April 7, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Playback

The Eastern Sea catch the 'Plague,' Eagle Claw goes samurai, John Wesley Coleman III wants to direct, and you can't pee on the Midgetmen

"...recording. To him, the songs echoed the human condition Albert Camus wrote about in his novel by the same..."

June 22, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

DVD Watch: 'We Were Here'

SF survivors remember the early days of the AIDS epidemic

"...of friends and strangers alike. As is expressed in Albert Camus’ The Plague, We Were Here demonstrates how communal..."

June 1, 2012 Screens Post by Russ Espinoza

Bedside Manner: Finishing What You Start

Words to fall asleep by

"...The Stranger, by Albert Camus: Another read of this tattered 1958 reprint, this..."

Sept. 18, 2011 Books Post by Amy Smith

Titus Andronicus

Saturday

"...the album, expansive tension and release dramas climaxed by "Albert Camus," which drifts from a mellow distortion into an..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Doug Freeman

No Visible Suffering

The Texas executions continue, amidst new questions about pain and suffering

"...husband and dad." And yet, as the French writer Albert Camus observed in his essay "Reflections on the Guillotine"..."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

The Joys of Meanness

Scott Blackwood's initiation into the writing life

"...to authors he'd never heard of before -- like Albert Camus and Milan Kundera and "weird Southern books" like..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

One Flea Spare

Telling the story of unlikely roommates – a staunch middle-aged couple and two young stowaway servants – trapped in a house in 1665 London at the height of the plague, One Flea Spare is an altogether decent sex-and-death psychodrama, and the high caliber of this production an altogether auspicious beginning for School of Night Productions.

"...One Flea Spare, echoing Bunuel's film, as well as Albert Camus' The Plague and whatever everyone hoped the TV..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Arts Review by Ada Calhoun