Paramount Has Your Dollar Theatre Beat

Opening night of the Paramount100 does silent cinema right

"...19, 7pm, Stateside (double feature) "Sherlock, Jr." (1924, D: Buster Keaton) and The General (1926, D: Clyde Bruckman and..."

Jan. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Bui Is the Warmest Color

Albert Bui's latest endeavor warms us to a modern lez love-story

"...Remember Albert Bui's Judgmental Austin Map meme? Well, we found the sometimes-Austin..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

News Ticker: June 13

All the news that's fit to blog

"...• Austin Planning and Development is having a weekend workshop..."

June 13, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

All Hail 'The Lords of Salem'

Rob Zombie on his fifth feature, a decade in the making

"...Halloween reboots – cut open the psyches of monsters. But for his fifth movie, the supernatural terror The Lords..."

April 19, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: March 7

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• I'll take it back. Apparently the slope IS slippery...."

March 8, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 list

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10s

"...1) Holy Motors I think Buñuel would have liked this movie, and that's good enough..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Soccer Watch

Austin Aztex suffer first home loss, and more

"...sights than the El Paso Patriots, another traditional power, but a team the Aztex spanked, 6-1, in the home..."

June 15, 2012 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

H-E-B Mi Tienda

Texas grocery chain unleashes a new concept in Austin

"...additional retail space and 40 new employees. The recent debut with food tastings and giveaways received an enthusiastic reception..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Food Review by Virginia B. Wood

VBW's Top 10 Sweet Bites of 2011

These were just too sweet to pass up

"...6) Buñuelos From 444 Gourmet Creations Dainty, crisp, and liberally dusted..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Taking a Stand on Shorts

No mere calling card or stepping stone, the short film is enjoying a renaissance

"...forgotten, nor can the eye-popping opening of Dalí and Buñuel's shaggy, Andalusian dog story. These brief, beautiful reels of..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Gay Place

Top 10s from the bottom to the top

"...2) ANTI-GAY BULLYING RESULTING IN SUICIDE This fall's rash of gay teen..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

Modern, indeed

"...It was a long time coming, but Criterion has finally released Chaplin's finest feature film, and..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Tuning in to KOOP Radio, dropping out for the Pixies, and turning up for HAAM Benefit Day

"...Web presence with more online-only shows during dark hours, but KOOP still needs your help. The volunteer-run station is..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Taking Budget Mountain by Strategy

To balance the city's long-term accounts, financial discussions need to climb beyond the General Fund

"...at the city's sole town hall on this year's budget, held in a Convention Center ballroom in June...."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Brigitte Bardot Classic Collection

Brigitte & Birkin, oh my ...

"...melodrama. Ursula, straight from the convent, arrives into a Buñuelian house of mystery and dysfunction; promptly falls for Irish-born..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: R.I.P.

Edwin 'Bud' Shrake and Stephen Bruton

"...– Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Blessed McGill..."

May 15, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Cine las Americas Previews

"...images from largely stationary midshots, her formalism providing depth but little peripheral vision – much like what Veró's partial..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature

A Republic of Indie in a Netflix Nation

How Austin's homegrown video stores are faring against the big red giant

"...are heading south by south weird when Salemi, Sicily, buys out your favorite independent video-rental store. Which is exactly..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Shock and Awesomeness

Stephen Romano puts the movies in his mind down on paper in his fake-history coffeetable book, Shock Festival

"...floor is tacky with what might be spilled Coca-Cola but is almost certainly something much, much worse. But it's..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Fight Stuff

Jamaa Fanaka on racial myths and the ailing film industry

"...(Welcome Home features a surrealistic death-by-penis-strangulation scene worthy of Buñuel) and then turned around and played directly to stereotype..."

June 27, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Catherine Deneuve: 5-Film Collection
Sophia Loren: 4-Film Collection

Lions Gate lionizes two icons – one French, one Italian – in two new collections

"...After taking a bullet or three with April's Alain Delon: 5-Film Collection, Lions..."

June 20, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lubitsch Musicals: Eclipse Series 8

There's a provocative postscript left off Lubitsch Musicals: pre-Code

"...Monte Carlo (1930) loosens able-bodied MacDonald on charisma-thin Jack Buchanan, whose sole raison d'être comes in the key of..."

March 21, 2008 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Border Crossing

AFS Essential Cinema presents 3 Mexicanas en Hollywood

"...is the Oscar-nominated Mexican actress who starred in Babel. But if you're a student of Mexican cinema, the last..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters @ 3AM

Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness

"...He's a reticent guy. Oh, we've talked a lot, but about movies, books, music, politics, relationships. Me, I also..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

The Next Next

Jasper Fforde reveals the secrets behind the new Thursday Next adventure, narrative gymnastics, and the job of writing

"...we meet not only an older, more maternal Thursday but a grittier, more violent Thursday and a softer, more..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Books Feature by Robert Faires

That SXSW Feelin'

Report from the black-clad fashion capital of Austin.

"...So I poked them like bears to see what bugged them most about the crowds this year. Jeremy was..."

March 18, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Page Two: When I Write the Book

On luck, anarchy, and the narrative vagaries of life

"...old days, Austin's airport was not only at Mueller but boasted a pretty basic terminal, one whose lobby housed..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Italian, Criterion-style

Three new Criterion titles demonstrate how far fascism's castor-oil cocktail will travel down the throat of its native filmmakers before it comes back up twice as Azzurri.

"...Marco Materazzi is impeachable! Whoever heard of getting head-butted in the World Cup final? Almost two months later,..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dazed and Confused

'That was me making the movie – being initiated into how you get a film made with someone else's money at a studio level. I felt I was the one being paddled and running for my life.'

"...Library of Congress short-list your film into its preservationist bunker. Criterion's extensive, two-disc archiving of Slacker in 2004 represented..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Inside the Actor's Superego

How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)

"...Stateside, the debut feature from 19-year-old Don Coscarelli opened and closed with..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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