All That Heaven Allows

"...Austin Chronicle. Jane Wyman plays a widow in a small New England town who needs her hedges trimmed. Rock..."

July 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Far From Heaven

"...Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson and Viola Davis. Far From Heaven begins just like Douglas Sirk's 1952 Hollywood melodrama All..."

Nov. 21, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Heaven' Sent

Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.

"...making the rounds, making time for these 15-minute phone calls while on a promotional tour for his new film,..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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

"...20 I Confess (D: Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) July 27 All That Heaven Allows (D: Douglas Sirk, 1955) Aug 3..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Miracles From Heaven

This Christian-centric film wears its faith on its sleeve

"...Carroll Lynch, Eugenio Derbez, Brighton Sharbino, Bruce Altman, Hannah Alligood and Wayne Pére...."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

On the Move All Her Life, UK Songwriter Jade Bird Finds Her Speed in Austin

"Austin feels quite grounded and down-to-earth, which just sort of mimics the English mentality"

"...with variously sourced, mismatched furniture and instruments on the wall – in many ways indistinguishable from any house inhabited..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

All Over Creation: Hit Where You Live

A recital at a holiday soiree confirms there's no place like home for art

"...shrimp, holiday cookies, etc.), when there comes a sound that slices through the white noise of holiday party chatter..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...notes in a report on a Mae West performance that "she is not volcanic in style and manifests no..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

Heaven Tonight

Toss punk. Flesh Lights coin fast-rock.

"..."I actually don't know that band well at all," injects singer/guitarist..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Pennies From Heaven

The new streaming economy is here, with or without royalties

"...much attention against the blasts of noise and marketing that swirl around them. The local quintet is unassuming save..."

May 18, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Crush

"...first-time writer-director John McKay, is the kind of movie that gives “chick flicks” a bad reputation. This gal-pal British..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don't Move

Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.

"...at times, the overarching story of a surgeon who falls both in love and from grace – almost –..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Moonlight and Valentino

"...Moonlight and Valentino, more than once, brings to mind that other mainstream gal-pal picture of late, Boys on the..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Fun: Some Like It Hot Cold & Dreary

Counterprogramming Gidget: 11 icy, downer movies

"...frolics starring Gidget, Elvis, Frankie and Annette. None of that beach bunny nonsense for us: When summer hits, we..."

May 19, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...The worst part about summer is everyone demanding that you go outside. Fortunately, here comes the Paramount to..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Johnny Belinda, Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows

"...Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Stephen McNally, Jan Sterling.MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION D: Douglas Sirk (1954); with Jane..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Sink Into Sirk This May

Alamo screens "Majestic Tears: The Melodramas of Douglas Sirk"

"...That’s Douglas Sirk, the German émigré film director who made..."

May 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Written on the Wind

A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind' explores the director's typical fascination with interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail- hat production oozing with Technicolor angst

"...but it's like trying to corral a dozen helium balloons. When Kyle marries Lucy Moore (Lauren Bacall), the themes..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Fassbinder's grimy Berliner sensibility coats the bare bones of Sirk's original tale in a slick sheen of weary cynicism and pits true love against societal mores in a battle to the bitter end.

"...That German merchant-in-angst Fassbinder could successfully remake Douglas Sirk's 1955..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

There’s Always Tomorrow

"...from his spoiled, self-interested children, who (as in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows) become society’s staunchest upholders of the..."

May 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

"...low points of the last year. Now, some assume that this is just another attempt by our writers to..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...is controversial, which is both surprising and not surprising. Periodically, I'm stopped by someone who exclaims, "It's just a..."

June 2, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Douglas Sirk Film Series Schedule

"...looks at these corpses with such tenderness and radiance that we start to think that something must be at..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Feature

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...Self-Sacrifice for Kin: 'All That Heaven Allows'..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Sirkus Maximus

Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years.

"...and you can't live without them. In a nutshell, that might sum up the subversive dialectics of Douglas Sirk's..."

May 12, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

The Big Combo

"...with Cornel Wilde, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Earl Holliman...."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...be it girl meets boy, man makes monster, or small-town boy makes good – could be boiled down to..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Good ‘Goat’!

The Brothers Bogart premiere 'Artois the Goat'

"...very much stands on its own merits, the fact that it was made by fresh-faced UT grads for a..."

March 15, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Magnificent Obsession

This is the film that heralded Sirk's astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women's pictures

"...pop of color and a crisper soundtrack, but filmmaker Allison Anders – a Douglas Sirk fanatic and contributor to this..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

Chronicle Recommends: Family Dysfunction Films

Because the holidays aren't all about happiness and good cheer

"...for the holidays. For his part, Hellman has stated that he believes this to be some of his best..."

Dec. 19, 2014 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

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