Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

"...Helena Solberg. We all know the screen image of Carmen Miranda: the fiery Brazilian bombshell in the fruit- and..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carmen

Maltese midlife crisis comedy is a pleasant if undemanding jaunt

"...This Carmen is not the Carmen of Bizet’s beloved opera and..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carmen

Did Bizet's classic tragic opera need a soft reboot?

"...American cinema has tried its hand at Carmen already – including 1954’s Broadway hit Carmen Jones and..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Carmen Jones

"...a former film critic for The Austin Chronicle."Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones is one of the most uncompromising portrayalsof black..."

July 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Generic Ensemble Company's Carmen

This devised work shares the name of Bizet's opera, but it has its own story to tell, one that's modern, irreverent and funny

"...Generic Ensemble Company's production, don't assume you know this Carmen. She won't be following a script someone else penned...."

May 25, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Lyric Opera: 'Carmen' glee-a

ALO makes its long-awaited move into the Long Center with opera's favorite libertine

"...dramatically with its new staging of Bizet's torrid, ever-popular Carmen...."

April 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

The Carmen Electra Continuum

What is up with all this Carmen and Joan dirt?

"...Butcher. Butchest? Some are banking on rumors of the Carmen Electra/Joan Jett hook up, while others are sayin' it..."

March 26, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Go for It!

A young woman in Chicago learns to overcome her fears and become a hip-hop dancer in this inspirational dance movie.

"...Directed by: Carmen Marron. Starring: Aimee Garcia, Al Bandiero, Jossara Jinaro, Gina..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Real Women Have Curves

"...Sites, Soledad St. Hilaire and Lourdes Perez. Two women, Carmen (Ontiveros) and Anna (Ferrara), are locked in an age-old..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

dot the i

In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle

"...is the native language spoken by the film’s lead Carmen (Verbeke). Nor is it true in Portuguese, which is..."

June 17, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boy

"...Oshima. The Austin Film Society calendar lists Otto Prreminger's Carmen Jones as sceening on Tuesday, October 10. They've called..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blancanieves

A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.

"...The bout ends in disaster, resulting in his newborn Carmencita growing up estranged from her father and under the..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Torremolinos 73

In this comedy set in Seventies Spain, a married couple makes porn movies for Scandinavian consumption.

"...Alfredo Lopez (Cámara, of Almodóvar’s Talk to Her) and Carmen (Peña, of Almodóvar’s All About My Mother) – who..."

June 24, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

"...the OSS spy organization when his sister, fellow op Carmen (Vega), goes missing. Actually, her body’s still safely ensconced..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alice et Martin

"...Directed by: André Téchiné. Starring: Juliette Binoche, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Alexis Loret and Marthe Villalonga. Every..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

The family-friendly spy franchise is revived once again, this time with a "fourth dimension" of scratch and sniff.

"...franchise continues ever onward, even as original spy kids Carmen and Juni Cortez (Vega, Sabara) have grown up and..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Callas Forever

While Callas Forever seems sincere in its attempt to pay tribute to the world’s most famous opera singer, it unwittingly disserves her in its bizarre wish-fantasy about resurrecting her voice onscreen.

"...as the titular lead in a filmed version of Carmen. No matter that her voice is shot – she’ll..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

"...Ricardo Montalban, Mike Judge and Steve Buscemi. Preteen superspies Carmen (Vega) and Juni Cortez (Sabara) return for more family-friendly..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tango

"...as he did with his recent Flamenco and 1983's Carmen, that he is a master director of the dance..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flamenco

"...Not reviewed at press time. Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (Carmen, Blood Wedding) takes stock of the art of flamenco..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Big Sleep

"...occurs in her bedroom when he returns the wayward Carmen home to the Sternwood mansion, and one that occurs..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...as diverse as the film noirish Laura, the musical Carmen Jones, and the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder,..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chile '76

Story of radicalization evokes the golden age of political thriller

"...Manuela Martelli. Starring: Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Sepúlveda, Hugo Medina, Carmen Gloria Martínez, Alejandro Goic and Gabriel Urzúa...."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Carmen: Hot! Hot! Hot!!

Austin Lyric Opera's latest staging of Bizet's Carmen is such a refreshing and vivid presentation -- and at the City Coliseum, no less -- that this tale of a gypsy love-sorceress and her jealous soldier-lover should smolder in audiences' imaginations well after this production's last embers have flickered out.

"...Carmen: Hot! Hot! Hot!!..."

May 25, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Carmen

Austin Lyric Opera’s debut in the Long Center serves Bizet’s classic in a clear, uncluttered way that satisfies

"...Carmen..."

April 25, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

In Order to Live

An American in Paris (1951)

"...most inspired givers of form in the medium. (3/28/86) CARMEN JONES (1954)..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

An American in Paris (1951)

"...most inspired givers of form in the medium. (3/28/86) CARMEN JONES (1954)..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

'Damas, Dramas, and Ana Ruiz'

The debut novel from Chronicle staff writer Belinda Acosta: an excerpt

"...small quinceañera, a nice way to celebrate her niña Carmen con cariño. She wanted Carmen's fifteenth birthday to be..."

July 31, 2009 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Learn to Make Tamales From Tamale House East’s Diane Valera

Plus, places to order tamales if that’s more your speed

"...about the tradition and technique of tamales. Between bouts, Carmen and Diane Valera, a daughter and mother team who..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by A. Richmond

School of Hard Knocks

Number Discrepancies

"...Carmen Cardenas builds houses while she studies through A.I.L.'s Casa..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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