Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...impact has been in the hundreds of millions of dollars during the past three years, which doesn't detail the..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

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Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dennis Hopper Is Totally Not on Drugs in Eighties Gem White Star

White lightning in a bottle at AFS Cinema

"...When German director Roland Klick (Supermarkt) tapped Dennis Hopper to play washed-up music producer Ken Barlow in..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

It's a Mystery to Me

"...ghettoizing crime lit is missing out on the rarefied pleasures of books like Michael Connelly's Angels Flight(Little, Brown &..."

April 23, 1999 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

A League of Their Own

"...buzz, it's more like the rumble just before a volcanic eruption. Often, the town that Richard Linklater's Slacker helped..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

A Select Bibliography of Texas Plays

"...Jones, The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Oldest Living..."

July 2, 1999 Arts Feature

L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...promoter, visionary, con man, artist, tall-tale teller, Carson was always on the run, heading toward the next adventure rather..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Notorious

In Notorious, the life of hip-hop artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, assumes the shape of the standard biopic formula.

"...Directed by: George Tillman Jr.. Starring: Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All The Pieces Fall in to Place as SXSW Adds Tetris

New titles include experimental Visions and 24 Beats Per Second

"...Bottoms Director: Emma Seligman, Producers: Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman, Alison Small, Screenwriters: Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott Directed by..."

Feb. 1, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW’s Big Third List

YFN Lucci, Wyclef Jean, Ought, and 572 more

"...include heavy shoegaze trio A Place to Bury Strangers, L.A. rapper Duckwrth, soulful R&Bist Son Little (aka RJD2/Roots collaborator..."

Jan. 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...the face of the bigwigs in New York and L.A. So it should come as no surprise that Texas..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...all the movies at this year's hybrid event. The stellar lineupreally ignites with the world premiere of Apollo 10..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blindspotting Premiering at ATX Television Festival

New Starz show joins Central Park, Mythic Quest, more

"...What do you see? That will be a first..."

May 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Roll 'Em

March

"...A mob boss begins having panic attacks and goes..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...receive a boost as big as anything since the Dallas heydays if The Plutonium Circus gets the audience it..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

The Other Stars in the Galaxy

"...child in the galaxy will see the film at least once. The only serious question up for scrutiny now..."

May 21, 1999 Screens Feature

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...Joe Turner's last album, Toni Price's Swim Away, Duke Robillard's Swing Time, and Ministry's Filth Pig, and I was..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Fade In

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference & Festival

"...Programmer Jason White and co-founders Barbara Morgan and Marsha Miller photograph by..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYD: Steven M. Martin. (PG-13, 85..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEYD: Steven M. Martin. (PG-13, 85..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...New Review..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Film (March 8-17) announced that Jordan Peele's eagerly awaited doppelganger chiller Us will be this year's opening night movie,..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

Production companies are mad at work shooting sitcoms and dramas for consideration on the fall TV slate

"...As always, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, in..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...movie business thrives on. Size does matter. Joining the nuclear lizard in the ultra effects and thrills department are..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Bryan Singer; with Ron Mar quette, Dina Brooks, Burt Williams, Larry Maxwell, Charles Cavanaugh, Brandon Bo yce. (NR, 92..."

Nov. 17, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...WEDNESDAY PICKSAll showcase times subject to change. Please check www.sxsw.com. Rhymesayers8pm-2am, Emo's Main Minneapolis-based hip-hop powerhouse Rhymesayers..."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...will be back; plus, there's Texas true-crime specialist Skip Hollandsworth (The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Godzilla vs. the Green Screen

Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?

"...one better, shooting a rocket of his own design clear into the squinting eye of the original man in..."

April 22, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...be the most celebrated punk book of the season, Please Kill Me, by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (Grove..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Saturday-Sunday SXSW Live Shots

Saturday night SXSW showcase reviews

"...crowd-surfing to the stage. By Saturday afternoon, he was bleary-eyed and scarcely holding down a Jack-and-Coke breakfast. It looked..."

March 25, 2011 Music Feature

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