Midnight Art Heist at Z'Tejas

Z'Tejas art theft has the artist, restaurant, and police baffled

"...On Feb. 25, Austin artist Scarlett Olson got a call from local arts promoter..."

March 19, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

New Theatre Work Puts Attendees on the Trail of Notorious Art Thieves

Hit the streets and get to the bottom of this Art Heist

"...became the scene of one of the most daring heists the art world has ever seen, and if you..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Arts Post by Gerrard Hanly

The Art of the Steal

This documentary looks at the quandary faced in Philadelphia about moving the Barnes Foundation, home to a premier Postimpressionist collection.

"...makes no bones about where its allegiances lie. The Art of the Steal bills itself, after all, as "the..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Get Your Art Fix and Stay Outdoors With These Local Works

There’s a whole city filled with things to do and see outdoors

"...through strategic windows or by scheduled, one-person-at-a-time visits. “Some participants may present exhibitions outdoors,” Big Medium notes, “but the..."

Nov. 19, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Art of the Steal

The Liberators uncovers how Nazi gold ended up in a small Texas town

"...1990 was bizarre enough: a collection of lost medieval artifacts, the treasures of Quedlinburg cathedral in what was then..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Art, Stunt, or Punk?

James Marsh on his dizzying documentary, Man on Wire

"...him plan what can only be called the greatest artistic heist in history. Split between interviews and sepia-tinged re-enactments..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Austin Film Society Joins Kino Lorber's Art House Streaming Experiment

Cannes-lauded Brazilian drama Bacurau will be first film

"...through a virtual box office connected to a local art house theater. The ticket price will be split between..."

March 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Ruben Brandt, Collector

Pop-art animated heist flick puts collection obsession on display

"...from first-time Slovenian director Krstić is required viewing for art history majors and anyone else with even a glancing..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inside

High-concept art heist flick is an arthouse dud

"...High above the city in a Manhattan penthouse, art thief Nemo (Dafoe) is tasked with stealing the priceless..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Unlocking the Joys of Austin’s Puzzle Rooms

Escape rooms bring the solitary diversions to life

"...work together to get out of. Scenarios range from heists and jailbreaks to dungeon escapes, downed spaceships, and zombie..."

July 29, 2016 Arts Feature by Marc Majcher

Trance

Danny Boyle's film swerves unevenly between moods and motivations, from heist film to psychosexual thriller, and dreamy logic to amped-up action.

"...Trance begins with a direct camera address as art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy) walks the audience through the heist..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

American Animals

Truth, lies, and self-deception in this remarkable true-crime docudrama

"...Directed by: Bart Layton. Starring: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson, Blake..."

June 15, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Off the Wall

AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Rebecca Dreyfus' 'Stolen'

"...million's worth of paintings from the city's legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, purportedly the only museum in the world..."

July 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Thieves Quartet

"...film noir, Chappelle's feature debut borrows heavily from previous heist/crime films (Brando's 1969 The Night of the Following Day..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Burnt Orange Heresy

Disjointed art heist thriller is a better character study than crime drama

"...freeform adaptation of Charles Willeford's 1971 noir novel of art, fraud, and violence in Florida is as much a..."

May 8, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Thomas Crown Affair

"...Dunaway. Why? Why remake Norman Jewison's staunchly cool 1968 heist film in such a lackadaisical, uninspired manner? Not only..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Out of Sight

Soderbergh adapts Elmore Leonard in this caper movie that features great performances, gritty milieus, and clever creative flourishes.

"...doing so it makes for one of the better heist movies in some time. Clooney, looking and acting way..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

12 Things to Do With the Family Over the Thanksgiving Break

Give blood, see the circus, do a virtual 5K, and more

"...thankful for, and this year is an opportunity to start new traditions. And some of our favorites are still..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Events Post by Katherine McNevins

Magic Mike XXL

The boys are back in town

"...reconnects with his old strip-buddies at a bacchanal pool party, where bikini babes are nameless and fawning; the most..."

July 3, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gimme the Loot

This prize-winning indie debut follows two wannabe graffiti artists on one long night.

"...Grand Jury-winning narrative feature Gimme the Loot, young graffiti artists Sofia (Washington), a softer, perhaps not-too-distant cousin of The..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Monica Riese

Ocean's Thirteen

This heist franchise has settled into a kind of hipster equanimity.

"...happy to live in that loosely defined territory where art meets commerce and story blends seamlessly with cool. 2001’s..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

À Tout de Suite

Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film's on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.

"...right one?) can transform a person from a bored art student skipping class to an international fugitive. Eager to..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Eternal Spring

China's religious oppression explored through the art of Daxiong

"...simply being an oppositional group to the Chinese Communist Party to an active proponent of far right propaganda and..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bart Layton on Secrets, Lies, and American Animals

How the documentarian turned true crime tropes on their heads

"...their next film through hours of painstaking research. When Bart Layton stumbled across the amazing true story behind American..."

June 14, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Going in Style

Three old-timers plan to rob a bank

"...original version of this film, which starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. I mean this as a..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Stealing ideas

"...magazine and talk show on the face of the Earth. Sadly, the real hallucination was the last; if you..."

April 14, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Book Review: Barn 8

Deb Olin Unferth reveals humor and humanity inside a hen heist

"...that exploits chickens for their eggs. And imagine a quartet of Ahabs – though more disaffected than monomaniacal –..."

March 9, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...their beliefs, they are hardly portrayed as villains or cold-hearted people; they're merely parents who want the best for..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Good Show

It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.

"...Angeles. The Funk Brothers are the faceless (until now) artists whose contributions were overshadowed by the celebrity of the..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

What’cha Watchin’?

Front Desk Superstar Zach Pearce extols the Primitive Technology YouTube channel

"...The Thomas Crown Affair (Netflix) Gotta love a good heist flick. I do, anyways. This one has been a..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Screens Column

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