Cruel Story of Youth

"...Shinji Tanaka. This is an early film by one of the leading lights of the Japanese New Wave, Nagisa..."

July 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Under the Hoof of the Merciless Kandisha

Julien Maury on a Moroccan myth, and what scares him

"...With its cast of teens evading a supernatural threat, Kandisha may seem like..."

Aug. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gang of Guerillas

"...Americans will pass through life without finding an apparition of the Virgin Mary in one of their tortillas. Just..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Review

Awesome Overload: Alamo Does the Kobayashi Maru Class of '82

Alamo Drafthouse screens 1982 30 years later

"...even that. Thanks to the Alamo Drafthouse's imminent "Summer of 1982" series, you can experience that insanely great summer's..."

April 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Of Frogs and Children

Do what you can to defend imprisoned refugees

"...It's one of those moments in political history when pundits resort to..."

July 13, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: Songs of Ourselves

As friends and legends pass, art and memory burst from the present and warn the future

"...no respect for time but possessing an endless variety of ways to make meaning. Not "we" as in "we,..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Age of Aquarius

With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.

"...The members of "the Tribe" wander into the playing space, moving slowly,..."

July 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The House of Lepore Brings Ballroom to the Austin Club Scene

The family that slays together …

"...from blood but from bonds made by choice. House of Lepore is one of those Texas families, grown from..."

June 23, 2023 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...England. Though it didn't originate there, it took hold of and thrived in the taverns and music halls of..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

"...Holm, Aidan Quinn and John Cleese. Kenneth Branagh, resuscitator of Shakespeare onscreen, tackles the Frankenstein tale and brings that..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Pigs, Pimps, and Pornographers

A look at this prolific, political Japanese filmmaker

"..."I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Screens Feature by Salvatore Botti

Short Cuts

Cinemaker gets jiggy wit it.

"...more than four splices and a maximum running time of four minutes, beeyatch. Super-8 only, you nasty person, you...."

July 13, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Calvary

Brendan Gleeson stars in this darkly hilarious and deeply ruminative update on the passion play.

"...a quote by Saint Augustine (“Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

South by Southwest Falls for Ryan Gosling With The Fall Guy World Premiere

3 Body Problem, more announced for 2024 festival

"...South by Southwest audiences have seen the artier side of Ryan Gosling with films like the Austin-shot Song to..."

Jan. 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Goob

The freedom and horror of growing up

"...Somewhere lost in the heart of youth are moments of pure freedom spent wandering across..."

March 18, 2015 SXSW Post by Joe O'Connell

Neorealism, Now and Then, in Troubled Lands

AFS Essential Cinema: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim 4

"...Society premiered its first Middle Eastern film program, Children of Abraham/Ibrahim, as part of the Essential Cinema series. Yet..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...familiar with that metaphor – due to a classic of fantastic storytelling called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comic Books and Forward Motion

"...so I’ve been doing a little research in honor of the last full day of our inaugural Film Fight,..."

July 11, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Moll Flanders

"...with 18th-century female literary heroines. This new screen adaptation of the Daniel Defoe classic about the life experiences of..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long, Hot Summer

Books to Spend Your Summer With

"...the weather has hit 100 degrees before the beginning of June. It's a drier heat, to be sure, but..."

June 5, 1998 Books Feature

The White Crow

Biopic of the great dancer Rudolf Nureyev rarely finds its feet

"...Ballet only has meaning if there is story to connect the movements: That's the gist of what..."

May 17, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Childhood's End

A certain boy whose permanent address is Neverland has been buzzing Austin quite a bit this spring, and here are some thoughts on why Peter Pan is so much in the air these days.

"...March, he flew into the Paramount via a production of Peter Pan by the New York company TheatreWorks/USA. He..."

May 10, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Harvey Sid Fisher's set in the spacious outdoor area of the Waterloo Brewing Company. Best known for his set..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Austin Playwright’s Final Play Might Have Died With Him, but a Community Joined Together to Ensure Its Survival

Saving Jason Tremblay’s Gretel! The Musical

"...a taleteller happened upon an idea for a new story. So he began eagerly stitching words together that he..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...published in today's Chronicle about Tesía Samara ["The Death of Ben Brownlee," News, Jan. 30]. The piece was detailed..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Column

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Karl Geary, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch. From the director of the bizarre cult hit Twister comes this genuinely affecting..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Wong Foo is a fairy tale in every sense of the word. Kidron's (Used People) latest film outdrags, outdresses,..."

Sept. 8, 1995 News Feature

Just Watch the Livestock

Texas schools' sex ed favors 'don't ask, don't tell ... and keep 'em ignorant'

"...By 5pm on Oct. 31, 2007, Sid Pruitt, superintendent of the small Evant Independent School District (about 60 miles..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Exhibitionism

"...longer living in Texas, returns to the burned-out shell of the home of her grandmother, rekindling memories of her..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Arts Review

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...in the makeshift Tentooine villages return to the end of the line as soon as their current ticket stubs..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

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