Death Race 2000

"...plans afoot - with different talent - to make Death Race 3000). This is director Paul Bartel and writer..."

Oct. 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Death Race

All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.

"...nitrous-oxide-fueled hell rides. Carradine, as fans of the original Death Race 2000 (produced by Roger Corman and directed by..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Death Race 2050

Plus jungle Sacrifice! and street punk Parasites

"...Another year, another Death Race movie with Roger Corman's name attached. Don't worry,..."

Feb. 4, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Cruel & Unusual Confinement

Convicted hit man faces third date with death

"...Rolando Ruiz has spent the last 22 years on death row. After two stays of execution, he is once..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...allowing the voters to gather and evaluate a sizable brace of their current or potential representatives. Not every invited..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

The Death of Ben Brownlee

A Rockdale teenager's suicide raises questions about official protections for gay and transgendered kids

"...Less than 24 hours after his death, Johle heard a disturbing rumor that, in the weeks..."

Jan. 30, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Judge Edith Jones on Race, Crime, and God's Vengeance

Civil rights group files complaint against 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge

"...blacks and Hispanics are more violent, and that a death sentence provides a public service by allowing an inmate..."

June 7, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Death of Brad Will

An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way

"...the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was on fire. Death squads, the pistoleros of a despised governor, rolled through..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by John Ross

Death of the Neighborhood Library?

Closure of the Southeast Branch Library is Ominous

"...Library poverty is not just an Austin disgrace, but the status quo across the country and certainly..."

Sept. 5, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Death Row Reviewed

"...Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Eraby the editors of..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Clay Smith

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Coverage

"...shown they do not share Phelps' bullishness on the death penalty...."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Election 2000

Chronicle Election Coverage

"...line, with Republicans flexing greater muscle in the higher-court races...."

Nov. 10, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Shelf Life

"...“pound-of-flesh” financing scheme of Eating Raoul, the Machiavellian auto race of Death Race 2000, and the paranoid self-reflexivity of..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Six-String Samurai

"...Falcon, Justin Mcquire and Stephane Gauger. The whole Road Warrior/Death Race 2000 post-apocalyptic hero genre is stone-cold dead, and..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

All Attitude

"I'm a very nice girl -- who happens to be completely amoral," says cult queen Mary Woronov. She'll present two films -- Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School --at the Rolling Roadshow's Rock 'n Roll Drive-In this Saturday.

"...should not trifle. Often clad in leather (as in Death Race 2000) and often projecting the air of a..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

"...At long last, from that most graceful of art forms, a dance inspired by Death Race..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

Remembering actor-filmmaker Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Cannonball, Eating Raoul)

"...of a joke? The director of Cannonball, the classic Death Race 2000, and the masterful Private Parts -- on..."

May 26, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Down We Go

Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions

"...Barry Shear), 1970's Bloody Mama (D: Roger Corman), 1975's Death Race 2000 (D: Paul Bartel), and 1975's Crazy Mama..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Series 7: The Contenders

"...7, which was workshopped at Sundance and filmed in 2000 prior to the first Survivor's appearance on the American..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gamer

Gerard Butler stars in this futuristic thriller set in a multiplayer online gaming universe.

"...new, allegedly more trenchant "meta" form) by everything from Death Race 2000 and The Running Man to Peter Watkins’..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pompeii

A gladiator slave must rescue his secret love before Vesuvius erupts.

"...gear-grindingly lame retread of Paul Bartel's classic dystopian comedy Death Race 2000, but neither he nor Boll come within..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Speed Racer

The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight.

"...game than there is in the whole of Speed Racer, which raises some very intriguing questions about the future..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

KillSport

In KillSport, Spank Dance Company's latest, performers shoot, stab, bludgeon, and explode stuffed animals to satirize our lust for blood

"...inspired by, of all things, Roger Corman's cult B-movie Death Race 2000 – the story Bartel tells through movement..."

April 1, 2005 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Rock ’n’ Roll Drive-In With Mary Woronov

"...classics, Rock ’N’ Roll High School (PG, 93min.) and Death Race 2000 (78 min., R), are on a double..."

Nov. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hollywood Boulevard

"If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle!"

"...Petrified Forest. The film liberally borrows action footage from Death Race 2000, Big Bad Mama, The Big Doll House,..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Wild in the Streets

Crazed screenwriter Robert Thom penned this AIP exploitation picture about what happens when the voting age is lowered to 14 and the new electorate votes in a fascist pop idol.

"...Richard Pryor and Bert Freed. Crazed screenwriter Robert Thom (Death Race 2000, Bloody Mama) penned this AIP exploitation picture..."

Jan. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...I hope your publication dies a quick and painful death in the finest Austin tradition." [The paper had only..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Savlov's Top Ten Redux Part One: The Good, the Badass, and the Weirder

Savlov's other Top Ten

"...about film is an innately subjective endeavor: one person's Death Race 2000 is another, lesser person's Death Race. And..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Page Two: Spin and Cinema

An understanding of the U.S. Constitution by way of Robert Thom

"...outright fraud to electronic voting machines that leave no traceable trail. The move to demand that voters have IDs..."

May 16, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...masterpieces of American surrealism. Appearing from 1913 until Herriman's death in 1944, the strip is simple in narrative but..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

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