What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...event movies? Leery of hearing a generation raised by bubblegum pop spout out Shakespeare? A host of vintage rereleases..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...The movie distributors compartmentalize the year by season -- summer, fall, holiday..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Broadway Jungle

Imagine a movie made by someone who had never been told Imagine a movie made by someone who'd never even seen a movie before. The outcome might be the 1955 film Broadway Jungle

"...After a while it becomes almost Dada, like a Buñuel film, that is if Buñuel sniffed glue until he..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Celebration

"...Hamlet (though he does share many of the prince's attributes and troubles); however, Vinterberg's pivotal character in The Celebration..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...ruins. He's the younger brother of Marko (Manojlovic), a budding war racketeer and bon vivant who soon takes the..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Judges

Meet the arbiters of taste for the 2024 competition

"...Austin Under 40 awardee and recognized as an Austin Business Journal Women in Business Award winner, Kendall serves on..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Food Feature

Austin’s Best Wheat-Free Joints in 2023

Top 10 gluten-free glimmers

"...make life sans wheat far simpler and much tastier. But it's a game-changing glimmer to discover a new spot..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

AI, Strikes, and Burning It Down: Highlights of the ATX TV Festival

Celebration of the small screen becomes a war room for writers

"...today is that the old model of putting a bunch of writers in a room to develop a script,..."

June 9, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Josh Kupecki's Top10 Films of 2022

"...3) The Innocents Children with psychic powers, one a burgeoning sociopath. A riveting and terrifying experience and, as I..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Screens Feature

Day Trips: 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial, Grapevine

Poignant monument pays tribute to those who lost their lives

"...more than 2,600 artifacts were preserved and have been distributed to almost 1,600 locations worldwide...."

Sept. 10, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Father's Day Roundup of Lagers That Dads Like

Beermongers weigh in on what wets their most dadly whistles

"...Tim Bullock | co-founder, St. Elmo Brew­ing Co. "Ahhhhh ... Summertime..."

June 18, 2021 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Day Trips & Beyond: April Events Roundup

It’s a beautiful time of year to get your daytrippin’ on

"...two new locations are the Brazos Outdoor Center near Granbury and Spencer Canoes and Shady Grove Campground downstream from..."

April 1, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Holiday Dinners, Holiday Treats

And this list will grow as the year grows toward its end …

"...feast, y’all! Most likely at home, this year – but nonetheless abetted by the best professional chefs and kitchens..."

Dec. 17, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

A Guide to Black-Owned Hair & Beauty Businesses in Austin

Support local minority-owned businesses and look good doing it

"...dollars to purchase goods from Black-owned hair and beauty businesses. Black beauty brands continue to influence and shape our..."

Aug. 5, 2020 News Post by Desiree Johnson

Central Market Tomato Harvest is Red, Red Heaven

Celebration of those tasty apples-of-love is a many-splendored thing

"...one wants to be a real sad tomato, a busted valentine. Hell, no one wants to see a sad..."

June 13, 2019 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How to Enjoy a Month in Paris

Eight-part film series, Summer in Paris, screens in August

"...Godard’s Alphaville, which is not technically set in Paris but in a science-fiction future where love and self-expression are..."

Aug. 2, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Let's Get Weird

Getting stranger with Kino Lorber, plus slime mold!

"...is a war veteran whose face has been mostly burnt off, while Colleen has cut off all contact with..."

Feb. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: What to Watch This Halloween

Part I: Slugs, zombies, and one-night stands

"...embraces the Hollywood camp alongside some gruesomely overblown gore, but most importantly remembers that the narrator was deranged before,..."

Oct. 30, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Don Coscarelli Returns With Phantasm: Ravager

Great balls of dire

"...For Coscarelli, the films' appeal lies not in gore, but the impossible musings on death that originally inspired him...."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Capital City Black Film Festival Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Four-day event showcases African-American experiences in cinema

"...are going even bigger. The growing four-day event was built by African-American filmmakers and enthusiasts to showcase black experiences..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Books on Film

Nick Offerman would make a great Teddy Roosevelt

"...Filmmaking book: My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel, because he has a way of seeing through things..."

June 17, 2016 Screens Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...pronouncing Facebook in Mandarin, it sounds like "fei si bu ke" (fay suh boo kuh), which means "you must..."

April 8, 2016 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Tales of Ordinary Madness

AFS screens acclaimed Arabian Nights trilogy

"..."The films aren't funny from wall to wall, but I think each film has a part that is..."

April 8, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Remembering the Classics

Texas Film Hall of Famer Michael Barker reflects on Austin's film scene

"...Lights alum Jesse Plemons; and TV comedy legend Carol Burnett – but as a professional champion of independent and..."

March 4, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Charles Atlas / William Basinski

The artists' live layering of video and music immersed audiences in images of suffering and transformation

"...appear to work toward a clear or explicit end, but clarity is not always necessary to create an effective..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Review by Madeline Irvine

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Some people in China use the term "An Bu Neng Si" (pronounced ahn boo nung seu) for "ambulance,"..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Wolf Totem

The director of The Bear is back for this human-and-wolf-cub story

"...Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa, Yin Zhusheng, Ba Sen Zha Bu and Baoyingexige...."

Sept. 18, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alcomar

Fresh seafood and an instant vacation

"...enticing preparations. The recently refurbished old South Austin restaurant building now has a clean and airy feel to it..."

June 12, 2015 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Filmmaking Sin Fronteras

In its 18th annual edition, Cine Las Americas presents an eclectic mix

"...since the first Cine Las Americas International Film Festival debuted in Austin and brought with it an astonishing wealth..."

April 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Don Hertzfeldt's Digital Divide

Awards-sweeping "World of Tomorrow" is Don Hertzfeldt's first digital film

"...make me laugh out loud (although they frequently do), but because they so perfectly capture the tortured, insecure, and..."

April 10, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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