SXSW Film Review: American Fable

A farm girl has a tough choice to make in this dreamy film

"...the parable of the lion and the mouse? The fable about a lion saved by a mouse he spares?..."

March 16, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Faster Than Sound: The Fable Trilogy, Briscoe Center's "Greatest Hits," and Beerland Sold

Rare local reissues from Jazzman Records, the Briscoe Center’s Music Collections presents its “Greatest Hits,” and – has Beerland been sold?

"...Fable Records officially launched in 1975 with a hot check...."

May 31, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

American Boy

Chris Isaak's drummer Kenney Dale Johnson: From Soap Creek to Showtime

"...Although Chris Isaak sings "I'm the original American boy" during the opening of his Showtime series The..."

July 5, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fugitive Dreams Rides the Rails to Your Screen

Jason Neulander's American fable is available on VOD now

"...debut feature Fugitive Dreams is complete as the modern American fable has now arrived on VOD...."

Jan. 12, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Journey From the Fall

The fall of the title refers to the fall of Saigon – which is just the beginning for these Vietnamese characters whose stories of re-education camps, exile, and relocation are movingly portrayed in this drama.

"...of Saigon on April 30, 1975, when the last American troops and diplomats left South Vietnam for good. For..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

This martial arts film succeeds as a great pulp yarn, a historical drama, an epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable.

"...story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable. Chow and Yeoh star as the unrequited lovers, too..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Slow West

A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West

"...A folksy fable defined equally by its whimsy and wistfulness, John Maclean’s..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Gadjo Dilo

"...the world's beauty and mystery. Like his two previous American releases, Latcho Drom (1993) and Mondo (1996), Gadjo Dilo..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

"...itself. A deconstructionist masterpiece disguised as a commercial theatrical American cartoon produced in 1953, Duck Amuck -- in 7..."

Nov. 1, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The Academy's five favorite animated shorts, plus two ringers

"...Bob Newhart left the air. “Bao” is a somber fable about a Chinese-Canadian woman whose bao dumpling turns into..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Academy Award-Nominated Animated Shorts 2006

See this year's five nominees and some additional animated shorts.

"...were the Canadian/Norwegian co-production "The Danish Poet," a charming fable directed by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann,..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

You Were Never Really Here

Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.

"...gritty crime drama that sears through the darkest of American underbellies...."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

Despite the fact that Tyler Perry relies on contrivances and sentimentality, he manages to spin a good yarn in the process.

"...quite producer/writer/director Perry’s target audience. Aimed primarily at African American filmgoers, Perry’s oeuvre is known for explicit Christianity, melodrama,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

James' Journey to Jerusalem

A movie about a Christian pilgrim and chance, temptation, and illusions’ protection.

"...Salim Dau, Sandra Schonwald and Hugh Masebenza. An intriguing fable, James’ Journey to Jerusalem is like a Bible story..."

May 14, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wild Bunch

"...save their friend's life. The story of how these American bank robbers ended up about to confront a small..."

March 31, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Quiz Show

"...literary family, made a Faustian bargain to deceive the American public in return for intellectual pop celebrity. Winning over..."

Sept. 23, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Basquiat

"...film biography of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the black American painter of Haitian descent who rose to the pinnacle..."

Aug. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern American society. (World Premiere) * SXsports screening..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Day Trips & Beyond: Amon Carter Art Museum

This Fort Worth museum is one of the coolest in Texas

"...to hang out in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art’s air-conditioned bliss during Fort Worth’s scorching, late summer..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Page Two

The history of the intermittent Halloween mask covers and of burgeoning staff dinners.

"...Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece and one of the great American films. This is the director's cut (and in this..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Column by Louis Black

Fantastic Fest: Zoology

Director Ivan Tverdovsky on the tale of a tail

"...Russian black comedy Zoology is the fable of a woman who grows a tail: But which..."

Sept. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...bit of time raving about Songwriter, a neon jukebox American fable directed by Alan Rudolph and written by his..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...spent some time raving about Songwriter, a neon jukebox American fable written by his friend Bud Shrake, Demme asked..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Operation: Weather

"...cable television, The Water Engine has been subtitled "An American Fable," but the finished film is a much darker..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Screens Feature

Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson's stop motion wonder is a tail-wagger

"...resident outsider Chief (Cranston, channeling a variant of the affable surliness that served him so well in Last Flag..."

March 23, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...by: Richard B. Phillips & Chong Kim A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Record Reviews

"...a Christmas jazz album whose title refers to an African-American holiday celebration and which was released by a record..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Review

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTD: Rob Reiner; with Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

Texas Platters

"...Who? (Fable)..."

July 11, 1997 Music Review

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated

This year's Academy-loved cartoons push the boundaries of the medium

"...been a huge issue in mainstream depictions of African American people, Cherry's isn't simply about acceptance. Yes, it's about..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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