AFF Review: The Blue Orchid
Danish fever dream mixes Cronenberg and Carruth
"...Film Festival 2020 Dark Matters jury award winner) The Blue Orchid a film to be absorbed rather than explained...."
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Oct. 29, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Velvet Ruts and How to Leave Them
Two AFF films explore growing up and moving on in Austin
"...Nick Holden (Red, White and Blue) plays Scottie's best friend, yoga teacher, and delightful voice-of-reason,..."
Oct. 14, 2016 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno
The Reflecting Skin
"...a true American Gothic, a movie in which breathtakingly blue skies and Van Gogh-gold wheat fields are unlikely witnesses..."
Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis
I Saw the Devil
A serial killer meets his match – and then some – in this nasty revenge drama from South Korea that's nevertheless executed with superlative style and wit.
"...homage to the comparatively placid world of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet or the dark pop poetry of Quentin Tarantino’s..."
March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Terribly Happy
This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.
"...wandered in from the sets of Northern Exposure and Blue Velvet. However, Texans of the local persuasion, certainly, will..."
March 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Experimental Films
"...directors. The most mainstream amongst this group would be Blue Velvet's David Lynch, who is represented here with two..."
May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Living End
"...calculated to illustrate -- to borrow from David Lynch's Blue Velvet -- that it's a strange world, they instead..."
Nov. 13, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis
After a Fashion
How Your Style Avatar sleeps at night
"...I received a gift from my sister of a turquoise-blue satin mask with white lace ruffles around it. I..."
July 11, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Pearl
Mia Goth shines madly in the delicious period prequel to X
"...are moments in Pearl where it evokes thoughts of Blue Velvet, like it has the same color palette. And..."
Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane
After a Fashion
Celebrity sightings … and slightings. Bitchy, bitchy, biiiiitcheeeeee …
"...but nothing more fun than what I received from Blue Velvet. Celebrating the opening of the new Hand-Made House..."
May 24, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
After a Fashion
"...of course. Kirk Haines from Service Menswear showed his blue-collar chic. The collection is not high-drama, but the seemingly..."
Nov. 24, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Straight Story
David Lynch takes the long road to a strange story of brotherly love
"...departure for a filmmaker who, in such films as Blue Velvet and the television series Twin Peaks, picks up..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis
A Time of Recognition
An excerpt from John Cale's new autobiography, What's Welsh for Zen?
"...light on the workings of Cale's beloved legacy, the Velvet Underground. Taken from the last chapters of the beautifully..."
April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Victor Bockris
State of the Union
A Fourth of July film roundup that goes beyond Independence Day
"...so you don't miss any of the (social) action. Blue Velvet (1986)..."
July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki
After a Fashion
… Wherein we listen to a new DJ, see Stephen's new 'do and wok, don't run, for some late night Chinese. Join us?
"...10, 10pm at Beerland (7111/2 Red River, admission $4), Blue Velvet and the Fuzz Club present You Can Be..."
Aug. 2, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
After a Fashion
What are the kids sporting in the clubs these days and what are they thinking???
"...Thursday, they were sporting white shoes from Austin's own Blue Velvet. The band stopped by the vintage clothing store..."
Sept. 13, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Ley Line & Nané Reopen Paramount Theatre with Spiritual Lift
Live music’s return to the downtown beacon felt familial
"...percussive rhythmic pulse. Pulling from sophomore LP We Saw Blue, released at the end of 2020, the 40-minute set..."
May 24, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman
In Memory of Dennis Hopper
'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'
"...Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend (1983). There is also Blue Velvet (D: David Lynch; 1986), River's Edge (D: Tim..."
June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black
After a Fashion
Read all about the peacock-themed Christmas tree fit for a Style Avatar!
"...knew I'd be doing peacock colors again -- purple, blue, green and gold -- but even more vibrantly this..."
Jan. 9, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
The Good Eye
Old Bohemia
"...on Earth? It depends on what you're looking for. Blue Velvet is a Seventies mecca; old Hollywood glamour lives..."
March 28, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry
The Good Eye: Haul of Fame
The cost-benefit analysis of clothing on the cheap
"...dove gray pin-stripes from the final-sale rack outside of Blue Velvet. A baggy, blousy thing with a droopy bow..."
Jan. 16, 2015 Column by Amy Gentry
Estate Sale Roundup: May 22-25
Take Monday to admire your loot.
"...four contemporary bar stools; beds and desks; leather sofa; blue velvet mid-century MCM chair; blue and green striped MCM..."
May 22, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris
Love Is the Devil
"...drank hard, verbally abused his friends, and treated his blue-collar boy toys like dirt, cruelly ridiculing them for the..."
Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Angela
"...Swoon) translates many of these moments in shades of blue, lending an ethereal, moody quality to the scenes. Such..."
Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor
Earth Day 101: All Things Consignment
Clean the city and your guilty conscience
"...Blue Velvet Blue Velvet is the perfect place to revamp..."
April 20, 2017 Events Post by Chelsea Pribble
Paterson
Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian
"...The stunning camerawork and expressive lighting by Frederick Elmes (Blue Velvet; River’s Edge; Synecdoche, New York) add further dimensions..."
Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Good Eye: La Nausée
We had no idea Kübler-Ross wrote "The Story of Austin Style"
"...confining seems kind of – overblown. You head to Blue Velvet – you know, that vintage shop that celebrated..."
Oct. 3, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry
The Call
Halle Berry plays a 911 phone operator who takes a call in which everything's on the line.
"...The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Conversation, Blue Velvet, and dozens of other movies, the story often..."
March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner
Killer Joe
Matthew McConaughey's Killer Joe is sociopathy incarnate; William Friedkin adds visual punch to the venality within Tracy Letts' screenplay.
"...like an errant bit of K-Fried-C gristle. Kin to Blue Velvet's Frank Booth, McConaughey's Joe is sociopathy incarnate in..."
Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
After a Fashion
In between TV marathons, Stephen Skip-Bos to his Lou all over town at the functions he can still make it to
"...bed a lot, always swaddled in bed jackets from Blue Velvet, I have to make a disturbing admission: I've..."
