Short Cuts

To auteur or not to auteur, a fabulous gay movie awards ceremony, kraut-rock!, and now boarding for Lonesome Dove.

"...call 916-0001 or e-mail Sidney Brammer at [email protected]… Austin casting agent Beth Sepko (The Rookie, Office Space ) presents..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Not Boxed In

Although filmmaker Carlos Avila grew up in Echo Park, only 10 miles from Hollywood, it couldn't have seemed farther away. With Price of Glory, Avila has finally arrived.

"...Mario Esquivel, Gilbert Leal). All were found at open casting calls held on both coasts last year. Often, the..."

March 31, 2000 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Anne Rapp's Fortune

The screenwriter of Cookie’s Fortune talks about storytelling, working in the business, and the incredible collaborator she found in Robert Altman.

"...selling script, per se. Then, man, once you start casting, then the faces of everything change. You start choosing..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sitting Around on "The Corner"

Drive, They Said

"..."You look very suburban," said the casting director, a back-handed compliment if ever I've heard one...."

Aug. 9, 1996 Screens Feature by Andy Langer

Adonis Rising

Matthew McConaughey

"...the law but doesn't end there. It was risky casting for Schumacher and Grisham to put a virtual unknown..."

July 26, 1996 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...than Renny Harlin. The movieÕs fatal error is the casting of Geena Davis as the pirate leader Morgan. I..."

Jan. 5, 1996 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...tour of brutal NYC crime scenes to the excellent casting and performances from Keitel (who, granted, could probably do..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...tour of brutal NY crime scenes to the excellent casting and performances from Keitel (who, granted, could probably do..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Magic Farm

A crew accidentally arrives in the wrong country for a film shoot in this absurdist comedy

"...Casting herself (as in her first feature El Planeta), Ulman..."

May 9, 2025 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Shrouds

Cronenberg contemplates grief and decay

"...– the Wozniak to his Jobs. Karsh is ideal casting for Cassel, his black-suited elegance and understatement making him..."

April 25, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Last Showgirl

Pamela Anderson captivates as an aging Vegas performer

"...faces brutal truths delivered by Jason Schwartzman as a casting director, or a failed dinner date with Eddie –..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Anora

An irresistible screwball comedy from the director of Red Rocket

"...His other extraordinary skill will always be in casting, whether it’s in finding the perfect first-timers in Tangerine..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mike Flanagan, Bill Lawrence, Henry Winkler Appearing at ATX TV Festival

Celebration of the small screen announces first 2025 programming

"...peek behind the scenes of the real TV industry, "Casting a Spotlight: Unsung Actors" will bring together some of..."

Oct. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson Become A Different Man

New A24 drama finds that wherever you go, there you are

"...But the script tackles a deeper ethical issue about casting. In A Different Man, post-treatment Edward decides to take..."

Oct. 3, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Bring Them Down

Sheep farming drama suffers from strange casting

"...that taciturn griminess that feels authentic. However, the biggest casting problem comes from Keoghan who does his best in..."

Oct. 1, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Substance

Brilliant body horror interrogates society's ugly ideas about aging

"...of 34. Now, it’s hard to imagine more perfect casting for a film about how society treats peri- and..."

Sept. 20, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Tuesday

Death manifest as a macaw attends a terminally ill young woman and her mother

"...The second is in the casting of Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Zora, the mother who would..."

June 14, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

A commando unit takes on the Nazis in this hyperviolent Guy Ritchie action-comedy

"...fare with energy, an inspired eye, a flair for casting. He is a master of glib entertainment, and that..."

April 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lousy Carter

A charismatic David Krumholtz plays the titular lit professor

"...upset). What makes his antagonistic protagonists bearable are Byington’s casting decisions: As he said about 2019’s statutory rape dry..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Everything You Need to Know About The Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin Awards

When to vote, why to vote, and how to campaign

"...Wondering why your vote matters? Well, casting a vote is a way to tell fellow Austinites..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kimberley Jones

Accidental Texan

Familiar but heartwarming story of a city slicker who gets stuck in a small town

"...than a paper contract. That makes Church the perfect casting for this kind of old man of the range..."

March 8, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Perfect Days

A toilet cleaner in Tokyo quietly goes about his days in this stirring Oscar nominated picture

"...majestic A Matter of Life and Death, so emphatically casting its lot with the living.) The lack of color..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

How to Have Sex

Un Certain Regard winner explores first sex and consent from the perspective of a British teenager on a holiday in Crete

"...as the bass thumps and the ouzo splashes. Yet casting three actresses in their mid-20s somehow blunts, while never..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Founders Day

Slasher political satire should fall on its own blade

"...only update to the usually lily-white and straight Eighties casting equation is that final girl Allison (Grace) is a..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Highs and lows from Austin’s stages in their first real post-pandemic year

"...Nontraditional casting alone was not what made Deaf Austin Theatre's recent..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Maestro

Truly moving biopic of musical leviathan Leonard Bernstein

"...hear the brassy opening notes from West Side Story, forecasting a rumble. There are visual bemusements, too, as in..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Suitable Flesh

The horniest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation to ever sleaze up the screen

"...horror, but none so unrelentingly horny, starting with the casting of two actors with pivotal roles in the maturation..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Expend4bles

Pointless action sequel should have gone straight to video

"...popped up intermittently in other action movies – a casting wink from filmmakers who want us to know that..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Equalizer 3

Final adventure in the cinematic reboot of the 1980s TV series

"...shared the screen since 2004’s Man on Fire; her casting here makes for a sweet, understated reunion.) What is..."

Sept. 8, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Golda

Ill-considered and superficial biopic of Israel's Iron Lady

"...the mixture it’s hard to understand the decisions behind casting such a slender woman to play Meir. Even the..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

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