This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Everyone complains about the perceived shortcomings of the MPAA, Hollywood's movie-ratings board, but nobody does anything. Nobody, that is, until activist documentarian Kirby Dick.

"...agency. By design, this board that assigns ratings to films according to their suitability for various age groups is..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...year, the majors are introducing close to 40 new films during these two months. Add to that another dozen..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ultimate Queer Guide to SXSW 2019

Often imitated, never duplicated, we’re here to keep it real kweer

"...Becoming Leslie, 5:30pm, Rollins Theatre, Badge required..."

March 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Control Freaks

Film Top Tens

"...the Austin Chronicle's cumulative tally of the Top Ten Films of 1997...."

Jan. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Starry Eyes

Roky Erickson's monumental comeback

"...on the song-list, but someone requests "Creature With the Atom Brain" and Roky complies. The song, unrehearsed, hits the..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Philip on film

UT Performance Arts Center's Philip Glass Series schedule

"...TUE, 10/2New Short Films by Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenaway, Shirin Neshtat, and Michal..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Truman Show

"...D: Atom Egoyan (1997) with Ian Holm, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Feature

Something Old, Something New, Something Eighties, Something P.U.

Scanlines' Summer Rentals, Games, and Favorites

"...Sports films seem to require both a mid-film dance interlude and..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...Included here are more reviews of films screened during the SXSW Film Festival 1998. Additional reviews..."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

279 Movies and 2 Funerals

Toronto International Film Festival Report

"...world is the Toronto International Film Festival. Some 279 films screened during the 22nd annual festival, held between September..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Decade Under the Influence

10 Years of SXSW Film

"...but many others. John Sayles, Kevin Smith, Maggie Renzi, Atom Egoyan, Nancy Savoca, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Demme,..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature

Letters @ 3AM

Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini: The great achievement of these film directors was to create living souls to look at, that we might know ourselves

"...another, Federico Fellini's in 1993. I hadn't watched their films in a long while, so my observance (and I..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Of Moose and Movies

Nine days and nights at the Toronto International Film Festival

"...The Toronto International Film Festival boasted more than 300 films in its lineup. Even if one were to average..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: The Missiles of October

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

"...mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. ... The statesmen ... who..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Short Cuts

"...Atom Egoyan, currently a nominee for a best director Oscar..."

March 6, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...serenades and subsequent vengeance-swearing, we were talking intensely about films. After I spent quite a bit of time raving..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

Dynamite Hack goes prime-time; Atomic Cafe hangs in there; the Old Settler's Music Festival is upon us.

"...Splitting the Atom..."

April 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

SXSW Film Review: Booksmart

Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut is smart, funny, and wild at heart

"...to the coming-of-age genre, a charming successor to recent films like Blockers and Ladybird. As an actress-turned-filmmaker, Wilde brings..."

March 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Britt Hayes

"Nobody's Right"

Latest Ken Burns documentary to explore all sides of Vietnam War

"...Confined to roughly 36 minutes of clips from the..."

April 27, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Everything Went Black: Let's Talk About Pron

Why cineastes should give a fuck about anti-porn rhetoric

"...censoring, or harassing the people who make or exhibit films such as Midnight Cowboy or A Serbian Film and..."

Sept. 5, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film

Reviews and interviews

"...Rightly famed for their nonstop output (more than 200 films and counting) as much for their films' gleefully lurid,..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bob Byington and Kaley Wheless Go to Nebraska in Frances Ferguson

Small-town sins follow an unlikeable person in this likable film

"...Byington's films are often defined by protagonists with a misanthropic streak..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Going on the Offensive With The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg navigates the hierarchy of martial arts

"...of Self-Defense, the real connecting tissue between the two films is their leading men, each on a voyage of..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron Wield a Sword of Trust

A question of trust in this new comedy

"...Knowing her previous films such as Laggies and Humpday fall firmly in the..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Shalavé Cawley

Robert Rodriguez Returns to His DIY Roots With Red 11

The film the Austin director shot while filming blockbuster Alita: Battle Angel debuts at SXSW

"...me of what the beauty of making these super-low-budget films is: You're building and designing the story, but while..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Ryan Reynolds, the Most Interesting Man in the World

How Van Wilder became Hollywood's most unpredictable talent

"...latest creation of the king of subversive sexual cinema, Atom Egoyan...."

May 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Soderbergh and IBM's Sense of Scale

Two small-scale projects put film and fiction in perspective

"...director announced his retirement from Hollywood after directing 26 films in the past 24 years. Since starting that so-called..."

May 2, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Page Two: Up, Up, and Away

Do Obama's sky-high approval ratings and unprecedented support indicate unrealistic expectations?

"...Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Otaku* Overload!!!

After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)

"...you want to get all otaku on me, "Mighty Atom," as creator Osamu Tezuka originally christened him.)..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

November Previews

"...D: Atom Egoyan; with Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald...."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

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