Fantastic Fest Review: Barbarians

English dinner party drama goes straight to darkest hell

"...of late, so it’s refreshing to know that, as Barbarians proves, at least the “dinner party gone to hell”..."

Oct. 5, 2021 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Barbarians

Dark trip to a genteel English dinner party gets bloody

"...of late, so it’s refreshing to know that, as Barbarians proves, at least the “dinner party gone to hell”..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Death March of the Barbarians

The emperor has no clothes, no wisdom, and no moral center

"...The barbarians are inside the gates. Pick your nominated poison:..."

Feb. 3, 2025 News Post by Michael King

Waiting For The Barbarians

Coetzee's novel of empire and colonialism adapted

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review

Barbarians at the Box Office

AFS Documentary Tour: 'For the Love of Movies'

Feb. 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

An Opera for Wartime

Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed

"...leaders of the current military campaign. Waiting for the Barbarians is the latest opera by Philip Glass, an adaptation..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In the House

A pleasurably heady thriller from French auteur François Ozon.

"...novelist teaching Flaubert to bored, barely literate teenagers – “barbarians,” as he dismisses them to his sympathetic but distracted..."

May 17, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Slamnation

"...as an improvisational, often competitive oral art form or barbarians at the gate of high art? Either way, Paul..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Titane to Open Fantastic Fest 2021

Cannes winner heads up this year's lineup

"...Mad gods, spurting space barbarians and a head full of metal. Yes, Fantastic Fest..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Screens Post

Waiting for the Barbarians

Austin Lyric Opera's American premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians speaks powerfully to life in a time of terror and oppression, sounding a wake-up call to our humanity

"...Waiting for the Barbarians..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Outstanding!

Nominations for the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Waiting for the Barbarians, Austin Lyric OperaSinger Sandra Piques Eddy, The Barber of..."

May 18, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera: Breaking Glass

For Austin Lyric Opera's 20th season, artistic director Richard Buckley has lined up the American premiere of Philip Glass' opera 'Waiting for the Barbarians'

"...first American premiere, and it's grand: Waiting for the Barbarians, the most recent opera by Philip Glass – so..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Change of Aria Code

Leaving "Lyric" behind, Austin Opera launches a new era

"...the U.S. premiere of Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians, there was a financial crisis that undercut its forward..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

And the Award Goes to ...

The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Conspirare, et al.OperaWaiting for the Barbarians, Austin Lyric OperaSinger Phillip Hill, Plump Jack/Fall of the..."

June 8, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The story is lacking but the spectacle is stupendous

"...new world. The insane costumes worn by the biker barbarians made sense because they were trash from the time..."

May 24, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dune: Part Two

Frank Herbert’s galaxy-spanning narrative continues

"...the Harkonnens. It is increasingly clear that the rubber-clad barbarians are only the cat’s paws of the aging and..."

March 1, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

She Is Conann

Barbaric vision of how aging means eating your own youth.

"...and stories, the saga, of “the most barbaric of barbarians.” If you’re familiar with French provocateur Bertrand Mandico’s previous..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Austin at Large: People Can’t Live at the Bank

We should spend money to help people and build more homes. Is that so hard?

"...democratic values and indeed basic human rights from the barbarians (who it took America four years to realize were..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Sex and satire in this Romanian polemic comedy

"...Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, to the 2020 doc Uppercase Print, the story of..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Spine of Night

Epic Rotoscoped animation updates Ralph Bakshi’s dark fantasies

"...here. Instead, this is kin to his epic of barbarians versus sorcerers, Fire and Ice. It’s from the first..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Robin Hood

This umpteenth iteration of He Who Steals From the Rich to Give to the Poor puts its dumbness front and center

"...against the existential threat of dark-skinned hordes of Arabian barbarians at the gates – this is the Crusades, the..."

Nov. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Les Enfants Terribles'

Philip Glass opera gives new meaning to sibling rivalry

"...American premiere of the Glass opera Waiting for the Barbarians in 2007. This Butler Opera Center production is thus..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Secret of Kells

This animated Irish stunner is visually complex and colorful and was a contender this year for the best animated film Oscar.

"...ever higher encircling walls to protect them from pillaging barbarians. The goal is to protect the Book of Kells..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Before the Deluge

A look at three new discs from the past

"...Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, and the Barbarians...."

March 11, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.

"...retreat into the imagination (the final bastion that the barbarians at the gate are unable to broach). Bruno Bettelheim..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lost City

Andy Garcia’s film is a Cuban exile’s lament – more a dirge for what has vanished than a celebration of the past.

"...patrons of the arts and nightclubs against the bearded barbarians enforcing revolutionary ascetics. With a script by the recently..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Lyric Opera

Austin Lyric Opera announces what's coming when it turns 20 next season and serves up a banquet of opera on celluloid in a party, titled Lights, Camera, Opera

"...premiere of Philip Glass' new opera, Waiting for the Barbarians (Jan. 19-29, 2007) – was announced months ago, so..."

March 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

On the Map

Austin's art scene kept catching the eye of the nation in 2005

"...American premiere of Philip Glass' opera Waiting for the Barbarians. Arthouse presented the first Arthouse Texas Prize and with..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Right-Wing Activist Chris Rufo Calls for “Siege” of University at UT

Professors were there to shut him down

"...suggest that actually the opposite is true – the barbarians are behind the gates. … So I think what..."

Nov. 17, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

SXSW Film Review: The Spine of Night

Rotoscoped fantasy layers myth, legend, and gore

"...here. Instead, this is kin to his epic of barbarians versus sorcerers, Fire and Ice. It's from the first..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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