Violet Criterion Arthouse Overload!

Violet Crown + Criterion = awesome!

"...movies lately? Better brace yourself, then. Austin's Violet Crown Cinema and DVD/Blu-Ray overlords the Criterion Collection are joining forces..."

April 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Architect Juan Miro proposes a new plan for the CSC-City Hall complex that's so simple and obvious, it's striking.

"...So what could have been done in downtown's southwest quadrant? Well, anything, had the city not been gaga..."

Sept. 8, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the heat in his efforts to shut down the Cinema West adult theatre. He may get his wish there,..."

May 29, 1998 News Feature

Austin Film Festival Review: Nanny

Eerie migrant drama is an intriguing addition to Black horror

"...not given much visibility in a lot of mainstream cinema, Nikyatu Jusu’s debut feature Nanny is a laudable and..."

Oct. 29, 2022 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

SXSW Film Review: The Unknown Country

Reality proves more compelling in this mixt of journalism and fiction

"...woman taking a solitary road trip from Minneapolis to West Texas after the death of her grandmother, for whom..."

March 14, 2022 SXSW Post by Dina Barrish

Austin-Shot Oil Epic The Iron Orchard Gets Its First Trailer

First look at this story of West Texas oil field life and Houston greed

"...those Van Zandts), it's an occasionally overlooked classic of West Texas oil field life and Houston greed. After decades..."

Feb. 2, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Memoriam: Sam Shepard

The late writer-actor left lots of himself in Central Texas

"...27 was a monumental loss to American theatre and cinema, for which he produced many enduring stage plays, screenplays,..."

Aug. 3, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Behold the New Drafthouse

Groundbreaking imminent for new Parkside Alamo at Circle C

"...new all-digital eight-screen Parkside Alamo near Circle C in South-West Austin will play a pivotal role in the company's..."

March 3, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

La Dolce Rota

The Ultimate Best of Federico Fellini & Nino Rota

"...ago to a whistled refrain from Sergio Leone’s grimy West world. Getting a glimpse of Morricone felt like John..."

June 22, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Excuse Factory

Accusations fly between SXSW and Factory People over afterparty shutdowns

"...Then someone pretends their changing room is the old Cinema West theatre, from back before South Congress was "SoCo."..."

March 21, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...Smart Growth era. Wynn's campaign HQ is the old Cinema West on South Congress -- "Some of you may..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Tenant Wanted on South Congress

"...community outcries and routine police raids at the nearby Cinema West porn house, prompting the theatre owners to move..."

June 21, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

And In Other Business...

"...than the cheddar wheel. For years, this end of Westgate Boulevard, on the edge of a weird mass of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Freerange Bastards

"...raise"). So even though they've gone to that big Cinema West in the sky, the damage is already done,..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...that presumably loitered the dark shadows of the late Cinema West Adult Theatre. They lumped the clinic in with..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...it to include a pay hike for the district's lowest paid employees among its top priorities. The Austin Federation..."

April 23, 1999 News Feature

The New Bubbaville

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature

Postmarks

We're Not Naive

"...5) There is no "naive sense" that because of Cinema West's closure, "all the neighborhood's problems would soon disappear."..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column

The Show Must Go On

"...Oct. 30, 1998, the Austin Music Network met its newest fate -- and its most promising yet -- when..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Save the Music

Power Plays

"...market reign gets the best results. It worked for Cinema West – as soon as the city bowed out..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...county government, transportation, overhauling Palmer Auditorium, and converting the Cinema West adult theater into a performing arts space...."

Jan. 10, 1997 News Feature

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...well be, but it's still one of the best cinematic meditations on the nature of inherited evil to come..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Sex, Thugs, and Thanatos

The mad, bad bounty of Fantastic Fest 2009

"...of fantastic and morally questionable (albeit vastly more entertaining) cinema and art. In my mad dash from cinematic puberty..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...originally printed in conjunction with screenings put on by CinemaTexas, a graduate-student-run film society that was part of the..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Film at Wit's End

An Interview With Stan Brakhage

"...Stan Brakhage, the de facto Godfather of American experimental cinema, is the most influential filmmaker you've never heard of...."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Polytheism in the Raw

"...been in place for centuries began to break down. Cinema had released a tremendous raw energy into the world,..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Pearl

Mia Goth shines madly in the delicious period prequel to X

"...Directed by: Ti West. Starring: Mia Goth, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, David Corenswet..."

Sept. 16, 2022 Movie Review by Sarah Jane

Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

"...Films in 1996 to take one of its "direct cinema" looks at poverty at the end of the millennium,..."

Sept. 6, 2001 Movie Review by Anne S. Lewis

Letters at 3AM

They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.

"...Great cinema, like great painting, teaches that seeing is a grace..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Now Speaking at SXSW: Ozzy Osbourne, Trent Reznor, Janelle Monae

Plus: St. Vincent, Carrie Brownstein, Judd Apatow, Desus & Mero

"...you that a prince were coming to South by Southwest, you’d probably guess Harry. More exciting, the conference rolls..."

Feb. 11, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

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