Alejandro Puyana Explores the Humanity and Hardship of Venezuela With His Debut Novel

You can’t go home again

"...The seeds of Alejandro Puyana’s debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast, were first..."

Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by Doug Freeman

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A Hollywood star falls to earth with mad, exhilarating results.

"...Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone,..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Birdman director seems painfully aware of his own pretensions

"...Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Revenant

Iñárritu’s Western loses the forest for the trees, but oh, what trees

"...Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson,..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amores Perros

Three stories about beast and man.

"...Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring: Gael García Bernal, Jorge Salinas, Alvaro..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 List

"...Best Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kimberley Jones' Top 10 List

"...Best Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure), Wes Anderson..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...the Hellboy series), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), to see it – but that..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Cinema's Labyrinth

The year in film, 2006

"...Marc Savlov's Top 10 1. Babel – Alejandro González Iñárritu's film gives no quarter to, and precious..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fall Films

"...Alejandro González Iñárritu on 'Babel'..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Short Cuts

Press 1 for English

"...one day to find an answering machine message from Alejandro González Iñárritu, all in Spanish, and you didn't speak..."

May 7, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Coralie Fargeat Gets Revenge on the Male Gaze

Writer/director flips the script on action movies

"...very special moments. I remember in The Revenant, (director Alejandro González Iñárritu) didn't fear to go too far. I..."

May 11, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Zellners' Beautiful Dreamer

The Zellner brothers mine urban legend in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

"...nominated for an Oscar for her supporting role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's bad-vibe triptych of 2006, Babel. In 2011,..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Most Read Film Reviews of 2014

Bombs away!

"...“Has Alejandro González Iñárritu finally retired the hair shirt? If so,..."

Jan. 1, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Steve Davis' Top 10 List

"...Best Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Marc Savlov's Top 10 List

"...Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Richard Linklater (Boyhood), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Movie Bug

Touching down at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...films traveling the festival circuit. Among these, I saw Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful, which features a tour de force..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lost World, Found Footage

AFS' Avant Cinema celebrates the radical art of Bruce Conner

"...of Terrence Malick to the temporal high-wire act of Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga, it's always been those..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

'My First Movie: Take Two' and 'Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love'

Take Two is the sequel to My First Movie, a collection of interviews with now-successful directors discussing their first feature films. Sexy subject aside, Cinema of Obsession barely even manages to simmer.

"...("I pay to be free," says Amores Perros director Alejandro González Iñárritu), the struggle to maintain individual vision in..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ways to Spend Your Time and Money in the Next Couple of Weeks

Including the Animation Show, Oscar parties at the Alamo, and Third Coast Activist Research Night

"...film work of Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro and run with..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Fall Films

Discussed: 'Babel,' with Alejandro González Iñárritu, 'For Your Consideration,' with Catherine O'Hara; 'The Fountain,' with Darren Aronofsy; 'Shut Up and Sing,' with Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck; and 'Sleeping Dogs Lie,' with Bobcat Goldthwait

Nov. 10, 2006 Screens Feature

Off the Record

UT and KUT's communications about the Cactus Cafe remain off-grid, while David Kimbrough Jr. reinstates his late father's legacy at TC's, and Alejandro Escovedo goes viral from the Stone Pony in Asbury Park

"...KUT staff and Vice President for Student Affairs Juan González, Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly, and the University Unions..."

July 30, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Texas Book Festival Unveils Full Author Lineup for 2024

Matthew McConaughey and Malcolm Gladwell headline

"...Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas, Grace Notes..."

Sept. 19, 2024 Books Post by Amaya Austin

The Crossroads Meet at Mexic-Arte Museum's "Intersección: Choque & Alivio"

The 25th edition of this showcase for early-career Latinx artists is a space for sharing our shock over this time and our humanity

"...impact in this work – El Guajito, by artist Alejandro Macias – has to do with its inclusion in..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...The Dance of Reality (Chile / France) Director/Screenwriter: Alejandro Jodorowsky The Dance of Reality is a 2013 independent..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Fantastic Market Picks a Sinful 16

International co-production market draws on Fantastic Fest vets

"...What We Are); the return of Cuban horror pioneer Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead) with The Wrong Place;..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...Laboratorios Moreno - 'Sonidos del Bosque' (Mexico) / Director/Screenwriter: Alejandro Espinosa Nubiyan Twist ft Nile Rodgers - 'Lights Out'..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Raises a Smile With First Announcement

The Banshees of Inisherin , V/H/S/99 , sharks, and more

"...Mendez, Demián Rugna, Eduardo Sánchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero & Alejandro Brugués USA, Mexico, Argentina, 2022, World Premiere, 105 min...."

Aug. 16, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

Getting the runaround from UT administration

"...the office of Vice President for Student Affairs Juan González...."

April 9, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Cine Las Americas Returns

A hemisphere of new films, plus SXSW fave What We Leave Behind

"...Utama D: Alejandro Loayza Grisi Bolivia/Uruguay/France, 87 min. In the Bolivian highlands,..."

June 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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