Tuesday SXSW Showcases

First night hangs – showcases!

"...Arriving from Brooklyn, birthplace of the now-Los Angelean Felte label, Public Memory (Robert Toher) kicks things..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two: "I Got Vision, and the Rest of the World Wears Bifocals"

A conversation with Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Louis Black: excerpts

"...Louis: Now with you two, do you, when you're working on..."

March 4, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Playback: And the Award Goes To ...

The Grammys went bust, but their local equivalent – the 34th annual Austin Music Awards – just dropped its star-studded lineup

"...cross-eyed and drooling, as the three horsemen of music's apocalypse – Bieber, Skrillex, and Diplo – unsuccessfully impersonated a..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Adds Midnighters and More

Horror lineup announced, plus shorts and more

"...documentaries, and narrowed that down to about 150 titles. Now the Fest has announced 10 of the most eagerly..."

Feb. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Arts-Related Program Activities of 2015

The most memorable art of 2015 carved strange and brilliant new spaces out of familiar ones

"...Just as one might Cassandra an apocalypse, we saw this thing coming from miles away. And..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Critics Announce Award Nominees

Carol leads nominations with seven nods

"...on stop-motion animation Anomalisa; George Miller's return to the post-apocalypse with Mad Max: Fury Road; and a pair of..."

Dec. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Festival: Booger Red

Satanic panic déjà vu amidst the East Texas pines

"...and the sequence comes off nearly as unnerving as Apocalypse Now’s “Do Lung Bridge” scene...."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: This Is Halloween

Unconventional horror for the haunting time

"...out of grade school, tells her he's 33, and knows creepily accurate details about her family life, it's a..."

Oct. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Rise of the House of Torment

Austin's biggest home haunt is now a national phenomenon

"...a home haunt, scaring the kids every October 31st. Now he leads one of the biggest Halloween haunt businesses..."

Oct. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Nights With Monsters

ATX Halloween week: Witches, werewolves, and haints, oh my!

"...You know, opera isn't just consumptive courtesans and cigarette-rolling floozies. The..."

Oct. 22, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Sicario

Taut, morally ambiguous thriller is set on the U.S./Mexico border

"...the Mekong River in search of Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Joe Walker edits the film for maximum tension,..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mark Knopfler Repaves Telegraph Road

Dire Straits driver dusts up Music City southwest

"...Mark Knopfler enough time to summarize a recording career now approaching four decades. The Glasgow-born picker, 66, picked carefully..."

Sept. 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Point Austin: Those Who Sow the Wind

The national GOP continues to perpetuate its permanent culture of extremism

"...to comment on the Democratic candidates – a race now more interesting than seemed likely a few months ago..."

Sept. 25, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...the Alamo South Lamar (badges and info at www.fantasticfest.com). Now, here's wave two: April and the Extraordinary World D:..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

"Kira Lynn Harris: Glittering Dystopias"

"...strikes a distinctly new tone for the often-bright space: Now a moody scene unfolds with an overwhelmingly dark palette...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

Playback: Waterloo Records at 33¹⁄₃

Waterloo Records turns 331⁄3; native poster artist Jason Austin battles MS with an Aug. 7 benefit

"...largest music retailer in town. While the music industry apocalypse nuked chain stores and left a culture of microshops,..."

July 31, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Graphic Novel The Divine from Asaf & Tomer Hanuka

Note: Never fuck with spooky child-soldiers in Southeast Asia

"...shorthand and say it’s a mash-up of parts of Apocalypse Now and Princess Mononoke and that Rian Johnson sci-fi..."

July 15, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: Maggie

Arnie goes zombie

"...has been bitten by someone infected with what is known as the Necroambulist virus, and in around six weeks,..."

July 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

State of the Union

A Fourth of July film roundup that goes beyond Independence Day

"...for doing the right fucking thing these days, you know, as Americans, what with last week's legalization of same-sex..."

July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Chronicle Recommends: Bad Father Films

These movies have some serious daddy issues

"...family, including a son played by Michael O’Keefe. Think Apocalypse Now’s Lt. Kilgore transported to a placid domestic setting..."

June 19, 2015 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Other Worlds Austin Hears The Quiet Hour

Director Stéphanie Joalland on a very British apocalypse

"...Stéphanie Joalland found her influence in a more low-key apocalypse: The Birds...."

May 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mad Max: Fury Road

Glorious action cinema abounds on Fury Road

"...gasoline was the lifeblood of this dreadful post-apocalyptic society; now it’s water, which Joe controls. He also has a..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Mad Max

Before we hit Fury Road, the original revs up

"...world is not post-apocalyptic. It's the eve of the apocalypse. Things are breaking down, but they have not broken..."

May 9, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Among the Dead

Local zombie horror needs brains ... make that crowdfunding

"...Case in point: Austin-lensed undead apocalypse flick Among the Dead. Writer/director William Instone has a..."

May 1, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture

Star John Marshall on lions and the world's craziest home movie

"...maniac loaned Francis Ford Coppola the Filipino army for Apocalypse Now...."

April 29, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...Starkey – son of Richard Starkey, Jr. – has now powered the Who even longer than Keith Moon, his..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Oh Me, Oh My, Oh iZombie

Writer Diane Ruggiero-Wright on the walking, talking undead

"...had a left hand/right hand relationship since Veronica Mars. Now she's the co-developer and writer of their latest collaboration...."

April 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Richard Stanley, Cinema's Lost Soul

Director on new documentary about the Dr. Moreau disaster

"...who quickly drove the careening catastrophe over the cliff. Now the tale of madness, egos, and on-set clashes between..."

Feb. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...opens May 15, so let’s all start wildly speculating now if this means SXSW audiences will get a first..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Trials of Tribulation

Ghoulish death hounds return for a Texas-style massacre

"...thing about the new one though. I don’t really know there. Maybe I’ll know when the master and the..."

Jan. 29, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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