Fantastic Fest Interview: Girl

Writer/director/star Chad Faust heads into the dead heartlands

"...- writer, star, and director of Fantastic Fest thriller Girl, knows that first hand. He and his wife spent..."

Sept. 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...Leading the charge is The Black Phone, from director Scott Derrickson and Austin screenwriter C...."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Gary Kent Is One of the Last of the Dangerous Men

New documentary Love and Other Stunts catches the daredevil legend in action

"...for an actor during the filming of stunts and dangerous scenes. (First known use 1927.) See also: Badass; Lover;..."

June 1, 2018 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Smart Women, Dangerous Men

Dracula and Fur Tempt Females With the Dark Side

"...She's curious. Everybody wants to know about this evil, black side that's so far away from us. Especially for..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

Gay Place

This week it's all about the Tops and the Bottoms, loves. How do you like your 2013?

"...4) MIA MCKENZIE Blogger's Black Girl Dangerous is a QPOC and supporter lifeline, and..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Top 10 Queer Grrrls of 2013

Here's Sarah Marloff's list of top queer ladies making history in 2013

"...our hearts’ as Sophia on Orange Is the New Black, and by now she owns them. She’s a kickass..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

An Archive of Reelings

Reflections on a town hall meeting: A love letter to "community"

"...Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable” on Black Girl Dangerous...."

Jan. 8, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...between words and deeds, and the confused but anxious-to-be-appreciated girl stands in her bathroom and stares into the distance...."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Friend Dahmer

A look at the adolescent life of the infamous serial killer

"...become infamous as the Milwaukee Cannibal. Cut out the black shadow of real murders, and My Friend Dahmer is..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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.

"...back toward the French New Wave. Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, the film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...films in the experimental Visions category, including The Artifice Girl, the latest from Austin's Paper Street Pictures...."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Year of the Horse

"...rock & roll, from Rust Never Sleeps to Cinnamon Girl, and Jarmusch gives us huge, unedited slices of the..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...car. Instead, they find themselves caught between a little girl chained in the basement and a white-collar couple (Donovan..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Texas Book Festival 2018: The Full List

Lineup includes Cecile Richards, Julián Castro, + 280 more

"...American, Julissa Arce's Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream, and Bryan Mealer's The..."

Aug. 29, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

At Large in the Hills

Ray Wylie Hubbard's Dangerous Spirits

"...Loco Gringo's Lament and now its equally compelling follow-up, Dangerous Spirits...."

Aug. 29, 1997 Music Feature

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...near you. (Full disclosure: My husband, Chronicle Editor Louis Black, is one of the film's executive producers.) This film..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...and documentaries on subjects from the Grateful Dead to Black Lives Matter...."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Sour Notes Tour Diary

Local indie troupe cruises NXNE and all points between

"...memoir, Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag, Henry Rollins writes about being 18 and going..."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Jared Paul Boulanger

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Fest, Eastside Kings Festival, HAAM Day, Vein.fm, Monte Warden & the Dangerous Few, and more

"...her hip-hop lyricism that spans braggadocious raps and "sad girl shit," while KindKieth flexes instrumentally with jazz- studied, beat-oriented R&B..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...Technically, Sturgis is the Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, which takes place in..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Loving Day

Mat Johnson's novel Loving Day is all there in black and white

"...once owned by his recently deceased white father and black mother. Duffy's moving into this mansion because ... well,..."

June 19, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

New Documentary Every Body Illuminates the “I” in LGBTQIA

Local intersex activist Alicia Roth Weigel talks new doc

"...proof that gender is more shades of grey than black and white. New documentary Every Body highlights the intersex..."

June 30, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

From Leather to Chiffon With Nina Proctor

Costume designer talks season 2 of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

"...The Series, which the filmmaker describes as a "dark, dangerous, crime world with a supernatural edge," is packed full..."

Aug. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Alexa Harrington

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...serial version of Swimming With Sharks, the cult 1994 black comedy about the merciless nature of Hollywood life...."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Feliciano In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera (Lorenza Izzo), sets out to rise above..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...a dread, electronic tremor, displaced air rumbling like a blackened storm front. From the quickly gathered gloom rises a..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...TV job and works her way up to weather girl, a job that she views as her ticket out..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...SXSW screens this year. Fresh off the success of Babygirl, Nicole Kidman shifts from erotic drama to Midwestern mystery..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...The Black Sea (United States, Bulgaria) Director: Crystal Moselle, Derrick B...."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...it deserves. Ratliff opens his film conventionally enough, with black-and-white graphics giving solemn voice to the history of Pantex,..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

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