Happenings

March 29 - April 5

"...everyone's pedestrian-friendly appetite, New Urbanism planners John Norquist and Andrés Duany will deliver a lecture. 5-7:30pm. Lone Star Room,..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

'My Trip to Al-Qaeda': Lawrence Wright's journey from page to stage

Lawrence Wright's experiences in the years he spent researching The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 have become the basis for a one-man theatrical work

"...He met with Lincoln Center director André Bishop, originally to discuss Wright's notion for a musical..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...again (The Last Metro, A Choice of Arms) in André Téchiné's romantic distraction on the cyclical nature of first..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

365 Days/365 Plays: Week 5

The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven short plays presented by Hyde Park Theatre in Week Five

"...Bland, Marc Frost, Adam Sultan, Julie Wright, Jenna Cox, Andréa Smith, and Maggie Wilhite. Admission: pay-what-you-can. For more information,..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Arts Feature

Oaxacan Turmoil Touches Austin

Oaxacan artist with Austin connections arrested during police sweep in Oaxaca City

"...country, went to the populist Democratic Revolution Party candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador.)..."

Dec. 8, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Oaxaca Unrest Continues

More of the dirty same in the southern Mexican state, where striking teachers, indigenous groups, students, and leftists have been trying to oust Gov. Ulises Ruiz from power for about the past six months

"...country, went to the populist Democratic Revolution Party candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Conservative National Action Party (PAN) candidate..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cine Las Americas

The slate through Sunday

"...A Vida de André 1pm, Hideout..."

April 21, 2006 Screens Feature

Tales That Must Be Told

Previewing the ninth Cine las Americas

"...D: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll; with Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani The co-writers and directors..."

April 14, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Three Women Abroad

Tuesdays, April 4 through May 16, Alamo Drafthouse Downtown

"...Lost Girl (1929)D: Georg Wilhelm Pabst; with Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovensk, Fritz Rasp, Vera PawlowaMay 16..."

March 31, 2006 Screens Feature

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"...the prestigious Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of André Previn. Sumner was reaping the benefits of life as..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine

The simple but elegant art of picnic pairing

"...The first was an André Brunel, Domaine de L'Enclos Côtes du Rhône 2003, which..."

April 22, 2005 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Chile's 'Machuca' Opens Eighth Cine Las Americas

Wednesday, April 20, 7pm

"...Wednesday, April 20, with the Texas premiere of Machuca, Andrés Wood's coming-of-age by way of suburban Santiago class struggle..."

April 15, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Out Takes

SXSW might be over and done with, but our coverage isn't quite yet: reviews and photos

"...to be an indie feature hit. Superb cinematography by André Turpin, a cast of recognizable, capable actors – namely..."

March 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

Short Cuts

Party at Pedazo, Access granted awards, and 'Dear Pillow' living the dream: Read all about it all!

"...TV Show's "World Evangelism," Inspirational; and "The Passion," Live), André Meadows (TV Junkies, Variety and First Effort), and Cindy..."

July 2, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Four Eyes, Three Dimensions

Alamo brings in big technology for 'Little Expo'

"...out of the screen and over your head in André de Toth's House of Wax, but beyond that admittedly..."

June 18, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

La Vie Promise

Isabelle Huppert stars in this French road movie about a selfish streetwalker, her unwanted teenage daughter, and the escaped convict who befriends them both.

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

TV Eye

The pre-Top 10, unofficial year in review.

Dec. 27, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Les Enfants Terribles

A brief survey of French cinema in the Nineties

"...more info, visit www.austinfilm.org. Nov. 12, 7pmWild Reeds (D: André Téchiné, 1995, 110 min.) Nov. 19, 7pmPigalle (D: Karim..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Feature

Latin Beat

"...Andrés Landeros: Check out his original LPs from Colombia or..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Duck Soup

A sublime, Surrealist comedy from the Marx Brothers, in which Groucho plays the new dictator-for-life of tiny Freedonia who declares war on a whim on neighboring Sylvania.

"...their careers -- are in particularly full bloom here. André Breton pronounced in 1924 that "the simplest Surrealist act..."

April 19, 2002 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Behind the Screens

Hidden Hollywood and other secret histories

"...which Robert B. Ray invokes Cahiers du Cinema founder André Bazin while celebrating a cherished tenet of "so-bad-it's-good" cinema:..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Lumumba

Peck's film is a fine, incendiary portrait of Congo's first freely elected prime minister, who arrived at his post in 1960 as the Belgians were finally exiting after 80 years of colonialism. – Marc Savlov

Sept. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedtime Stories

Eric Rohmer's "Moral Tales" and "Proverbs and Fables"

"...feature (and the inspiration for Malle's My Dinner with André), My Night at Maud's (originally scheduled to screen Sept...."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

ECM New Series

"...counterpart puzzle pieces, with Shubert's "Klavierstücke Es-Dur" distinguishing itself. András Schiff 's tribute to early-1900s Czech composer Leos Janácek,..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Music Review by David Lynch

Surreal Science

Looking at three books -- Plague Time, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy, and The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, Roger Gathman observes that for every advance in technology, nature counterbalances with new opportunities for disease.

"...as an aesthetic principle. Probably Fleming never heard of André Breton, but they were brothers under the skin. As..."

March 2, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Culinary Studies

Cooking Schools in Austin

"...teaching staff, which includes two certified master chefs, Chef André Touboule and chef Christian Echterbille, and a certified executive..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Where Some Austin Chefs Attended Culinary School

"...André Touboule (Texas Culinary Academy): Culinary Arts School, Nice, and..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Food Feature by MM Pack

Che Bella

The Austin Film Society's series is called "Che Bella: Italy in the 60s," but the story really begins -- as does all of modern cinema -- in the streets of Rome, in May of 1944. Nick Barbaro looks at Italian neorealism and the movies it inspired.

"...Luchino Visconti (1971); with Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano, Björn Andrésen, Luigi Battaglia...."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...for modern art. Appollinaire, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon. Ezra Pound came. André Gide, who was a member of the older generation...."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

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