Thirteen Days

"...like Roger Donaldson's Thirteen Days, which covers the 1962 Cuban missile crisis from, if not a strictly intellectual angle,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ginger & Rosa

The personal becomes political in Sally Potter's story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.

"...an English seaside town at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Ginger (Fanning) has her feet planted on..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Company Man

"...real story behind the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a historical landmark not often noted as..."

March 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Matinee

This film is a fondly humorous look back at the last gasp of America's innocence, being a kid, and, in particular, monster movies.

"...John Sayles. Set against the background of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, at a time when the world found..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Robert S. McNamara, the confounding former secretary of defense during the Vietnam era, may be visionary filmmaker Errol Morris' best interview "get" ever.

"...Office adviser during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, but as the war in Vietnam ramped..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pointed Remembrances, Pointless Arguments

Letters at 3AM

"...'62, with an event nobody talks about much: the Cuban Missile Crisis, when for two weeks the world hovered..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Missiles of October

Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis

"...We call it the "Cuban Missile Crisis." Russians call it the "Caribbean Crisis." Cubans,..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: JFK and That Hard Rain

When boomers and their offspring die out, Kennedy's assassination will have the approximate historical echo of William McKinley's

"...When the sirens screech and the commie Russian atomic missiles head straight for us like a hard rain (as..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Being Robert McNamara

Through 'The Fog of War,' Errol Morris gets inside a mind full of hindsight, regret, and the lessons of Vietnam

"...the unavoidable strategic errors that arise in times of crisis and the notion that hindsight is a luxury wartime..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Blast From the Past

"...night in 1962, after watching an announcement about the Cuban Missile Crisis, he hurries his pregnant wife into the..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

When the Furies Sing

"...being concerned about was the Hungarian Revolution. Then the Cuban Revolution. Then the Cuban Missile Crisis. [We'd studied that...."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Films Without Borders

Cine Las Americas

"...quality. Dozens of films are being produced every year. Cuban cinema, Mexican cinema, Brazilian, Argentinean, some real powerhouses. And..."

April 24, 1998 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

Being president of America is not good for one's health.

"...Kennedy (Democrat) ... elected partly through lying about a "missile gap" that didn't exist, stupidly handled the Bay of..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

"It's Extremely Easy to Frighten People"

Insightful foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky explains the upcoming war, previewing his Austin appearances.

"...always true. This is the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis -- what Khrushchev and Kennedy were doing..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Coach's Corner

A guide for the younger generation: Sick of hearing about Woodstock? Recreate all of its dubious glories at this year's Super Bowl party.

"...The Good Old Days officially began with the Cuban Missile Crisis, when we all almost died in a..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Burning Down the Sixties

They don't normally let dogs in the LBJ Library and Museum, but after Chronicle writer Jesse Sublett explained that he was talking about James Ellroy, the demon dog of American literature, they graciously made an exception.

"...[Here we come to the Cuban Missile Crisis exhibit. The Chet Huntley news report is..."

June 29, 2001 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...Depp plays dual roles as a transvestite and a Cuban military officer, and Sean Penn appears as a Cuban..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Letters @ 3AM

Joe Biden and Chris Dodd rise above the other primary candidates in terms of achievement and hands-on experience in what a president needs to know

"...heeded much better advisers the following year during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a life-or-death-of-the-world event that would probably not..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

A Danse Macabre

Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.

"...the will of our allies, on building the so-called "missile-defense shield"; its antagonism to the United Nations; its defiance..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Wonder Stories: Artists in Space and Unstuck in Time

Austin artists and arts leaders reveal which work of science fiction affected them the most

"...U-2 project that eventually took the pictures of the Cuban missiles of the time that has since become known..."

July 25, 2008 Arts Feature

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Bossa Cubana (World Circuit/Nonesuch)..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Political Realist

An Interview With Ben Barnes

"...contribution to the state when we were in a crisis, and he convinced some people to vote for it...."

July 7, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and the war ceased before it started. During the Cuban Missile crisis, President Kennedy prevented war, not by war,..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Column

Letters at 3AM

The 21st Century Announces Itself

"...horror. For it is also human, in times of crisis, to allow the lowest and ugliest to set the..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Triggering a Time Trap

Ben Foster and Mark Dennis on the Hill Country sci-fi flick

"...in 1962. It was at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the people were just like, "We..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Demons' / 'Witchboard'

Director Kevin S. Tenney talks scream queens and classic posters

"...a coming-of-age story of a 10-year-old in Bermuda during Cuban missile Crisis), Tenney has plans for a sequel to..."

Feb. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...Avenue ad accounts, he had serial women and the Cuban Missile Crisis...."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

Stephen Stills wrote CSNY's best song about Judy Collins for more than love

"...experiences, major historical events unspool behind her, including the Cuban missile crisis, integration at the University of Mississippi, the..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

Gift Guide

Two new titles for the TV geek

"...list of cocktail recipes, of course. Additional touches include "Cuban Missile Crisis! The Goofy Game of Nuclear Brinkmanship," and..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...remembrance of another era – civil rights demonstrations, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War. Some familiar faces appear..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature

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