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March 18, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell
Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)
Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One
"...Jess Franco has been making his own kind of cinematic poetry, steeped with themes of sex, violence, jazz, and..."
July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
One Size Does Not Fit All
The international community reacts and adapts to a Westernized Web
"...global, which really means design is American and very Western," says Boa-Ventura. Sometimes this can be obvious, like her..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Battle of AlgiersAlso Out Now The Battle of Algiers
In the wake of this country's most recent exercise in
colonialism, Criterion has released, on three DVDs,
Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece, a film so rich in
aesthetic and political relevance as to be almost
uncanny
"...struggles of the wretched of the earth: an anti-colonial cinema...."
Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Short Cuts
Tim and Karrie League take their genius Drafthouse idea and open two more franchises.
"...a(n Alamo) Nation Dept.: Rumors of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema's supersecret plan for global domination via an unstoppable army..."
March 7, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov
Dancing About Architecture
Labor Days ends, people bummed.
"...as well as the crowd that's increasingly out on West Sixth Street where Katz's was once an island unto..."
Sept. 6, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...Most of the boxes I lost were in far Southwest Austin, like Circle C where I lost by 900..."
March 15, 2002 Column
Songwriters and Spirit Chasers
Resentments Jon Dee Graham and Stephen Bruton go mano a mano about their new albums.
"...guitar to songwriting, both have new releases on New West Records, Graham's Hooray for the Moon and Bruton's Spirit..."
Feb. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
The Tenth Annual "Austin Chronicle' Short Story Contest Results
"...ears off about Yeats and Maude Gonne and Irish cinema and relights our cigarettes. Then we fall into the..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature
Postmarks
A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.
"...in it's pages). Class warfare, white guilt, race baiting, anti-westernism, anti-industrialism, "bite the hand that feeds you" as philosophy,..."
Oct. 12, 2001 Column
Page Two
Peckinpah rides again at the Alamo Drafthouse.
"...larger. The last shot of John Ford's 1956 American Western masterpiece, The Searchers, finds John Wayne cut off from..."
Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Louis Black
Iron Writer
"...McCanlies, 46, lives in a place much like the West Texas town he created for his directorial film debut..."
Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts
Slam Week Events
"...Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: 409 Colorado, 867-1839...."
Aug. 14, 1998 Books Feature
Summer Movie Events
"...9:20 7/16 Dark Passage: 7:15 Key Largo: 9:25 7/17 West Side Story: 7:30 7/18 West Side Story: 4:00, 7:30..."
June 12, 1998 Screens Feature
Postmarks
We Get What We Want
"...Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice at the dollar cinema years ago - and I went to that just..."
Feb. 27, 1998 Column
Further Reflections
SXSW Film Festival
"...feature to suggest that journalism's loss will be indie cinema's gain. Though made for only $90,000, this smart, quirky,..."
March 21, 1997 Screens Feature
Trains, Dance, and Lesbionage in This Week’s Recommended Events
Find some art and community this weekend
"...Thursday 22 - Wednesday 28, AFS Cinema..."
Aug. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Find Creativity, Karaoke, and Even a Casket in This Week’s Recommended Events
Art and death become you
"...part of its mission to keep kids entertained and cinematically educated on the cheap, offering Kids Club screenings for..."
Aug. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Thelma, Louise, Musketeers, and More Queer Films Headline Our Week in Events
Get your weekdays squared away
"...the road for real, hightailing it around the American West on the run. With a stellar cast, soundtrack, costumes,..."
Aug. 16, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott
Reality Bites: Looking Back at The Real World: Austin
Austin's film community shaped the reality show and vice versa
"...a band trying to make it at South by Southwest and their Avid editing program had frozen...."
July 22, 2024 Screens Post by Paul Stekler
Jess Williamson, Stay Black & Live, Babestock, and More Crucial Concerts
Recommended shows for the week in Austin
"...Obscura’s new Look to the East, Look to the West is 11 years removed from their last record, the..."
June 14, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White
SXSW Film Review: We're All Gonna Die
Sci-fi romance balances humor and grieving
"...In South by Southwest world premiere We’re All Gonna Die, an alien spike..."
March 11, 2024 Screens Post by Dex Wesley Parra
30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week
Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial
"...March: Anyone you’re excited to see at South by Southwest?..."
March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe
Cassette Roulette, Some Bitchcraft, and More Arts Events
Get arty this week with our recommended happenings
"...Adrienne Brown, Zsaknor Powe, Mike T., Charlie Mac, Daniel West, Joy Melan, Charles Adams Jr., Bernard White, Will Williams,..."
Feb. 23, 2024 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Austin Film Society Announces 2023 AFS Grant for Short Films Recipients
Career-changing grants go to 16 projects from Texas filmmakers
"...Jose Rodriguez, and Lauren Wolkstein, director of South by Southwest 2017 selection The Strange Ones...."
Jan. 5, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Qmmunity: Making It Ourselves
Examples of queer creativity abound in Austin, Texas
"...being queer in Texas? Try local DJ Lavender Thug's newest track, "Metagirl," whose thumping beat provides a theme song..."
Sept. 22, 2023 Column by James Scott
SXSW Film Review: Last Stop Larrimah
True crime whodunnit exposes murder in and of an Australian town
"...consequences of Paddy’s, and the town’s, disappearance. Almost a Western, the threat of the lawless outback encroaches as more..."
March 12, 2023 SXSW Post by Lina Fisher
The Beast and the Bone Collector in Rondo and Bob
Joe O'Connell brings together two horror icons in his documentary, on VOD now
"...about the Ross Sisters. The loose-limbed singing triplets from West Texas will be familiar to Alamo Drafthouse veterans from..."
June 24, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet
From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests
"...one of his meatiest, most unexpected roles since PTSD Western In the Valley of Violence. (Read our review here.)..."
Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
AFS Announces 2020 Feature Grant Recipients
Special new fund will help those hit by SXSW cancellation
"...program has supported up-and-coming talents in Lone Star State cinema to the tune of over $2 million. It's gone..."
