The Agony of the Ecstasy

Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?

"...of fog machines, Intellibeams, and the empathogenic club drug ecstasy, is suddenly facing the kind of coordinated law-enforcement attention..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy

What a bizarre, beautiful, and tonally askew sex-and-sadism romp this Hong Kong freak show is.

"...Kong freak show. On the face of it, Extreme Ecstasy is an update of Michael Mak's well-regarded 1991 film..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From the Vaults: Herzog's Ecstasy of Truth

Werner Herzog on documentary filmmaking

"...his documentary Grizzly Man. "To find some sort of ecstasy of truth, I stylize, I fabricate, I stage, I..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Countdown to Ecstasy

A New Drug for a New Millennium

"...and I, to discuss his former drug of choice, Ecstasy, or if you're a chemical engineer, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. This guy,..."

June 9, 2000 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Very Ecstasy of Love

"...blossom and grow into legend, Mercutio gives Romeo an ecstasy tablet. Meaning 40 minutes into the party, right about..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Visual Arts Review: “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024”

Highlighting a subject usually depicted in pain, UT exhibit reverberates joy

"...takes that question further. He asks, what about Black ecstasy? What about Black queer ecstasy? [inset-1-right]..."

Jan. 31, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs'

Monologist Mike Daisey takes a slightly different bite of the Apple

"...his compelling one-person theatre piece, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, being presented by Texas Performing Arts..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Arts Feature by Andrew Long

Lesbians on Ecstasy

Hot Canadian queer dance party drips into town

"...The kids were dancing. And the Lesbians on Ecstasy had fun. They said so. Free beers. Because it..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

Ecstasy: The Perfect Word for It

Getty luvs dem Lezzies on X.

"...I love them. I love the Lesbians on Ecstasy. (And I'm not the only one.) I will always..."

March 18, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Discord and Ecstasy

Werner Herzog on 'Grizzly Man'

"...[rather] than just facts. To find some sort of ecstasy of truth, I stylize, I fabricate, I stage, I..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy

UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.

"...there are just as many moments of humor, introspection, ecstasy."..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Robert Faires

Courting Ecstasy

Exploring the Landscapes of Playwright Lisa D'Amour

"...D'Amour wants to make plays which approach the ecstasy that sneaks up on people, to create those strange..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Arts Feature by Brett Holloway-Reeves

sxswf: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Senna

The Formula One documentary comes to the new Formula One city

March 13, 2011 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay People Like to Party

Are the Lesbians on Ecstasy really happy to be coming to Austin?

"...Meet The Lesbians on Ecstasy, a Montreal-based lesbian dance party in a can. Front-monkey..."

March 10, 2006 Features Feature by Kate Getty

Human Traffic

"...tree-skim that barely grazes the heads of the U.K.'s Ecstasy-mad youth culture. There's much about Human Traffic to enjoy:..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The World of Kanako

In this bloody Japanese thriller, a father searches for his daughter

"...gang of yakuza thugs rolling hard on equally awful ecstasy. Yeah, come to think of it, that’s The World..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

The “world’s first Iranian feminist vampire spaghetti western” is a spooky doozy

"...from a costume party, Arash is miles high on ecstasy and dressed as Count Dracula when the girl, imperiously..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

20,000 Days on Earth

This documentary (for which Nick Cave receives a script credit), gets inside the artist's notoriously fussy creative process.

"...poetic imagery, but also a sort of gargantuan, audience-fueled ecstasy. (Cave’s live performance reminds you of a walking, shrieking..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

AFF: God of Tetris

How 'The Tetris Masters' Thor Aackerlund is the anti-Billy Mitchell

"...have an opinion about the arrogant Donky Kong champ. Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters attempts to give block-turning..."

Oct. 27, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Circumstance

This Iranian film about two girls who begin a secret relationship is as much a political statement as it is a love story.

"...party, complete with a secret password, thumping bass, and ecstasy of all kinds. Keshavarz contrasts that with a seaside..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

This biopic tells the life story of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine nun, who was a woman of many talents and mystical visions.

"...informative, instructive, intriguing, and polished, yet it finds no ecstasy – religious or otherwise. Though these nuns can sing,..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Layer Cake

A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style, Layer Cake takes a realistic approach to Britain’s criminal underclass.

"...partner Monty (Harris). Add to this a cache of ecstasy pills stolen by bottom-feeding wannabe gangster Duke (Foreman) from..."

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Mask

Sequel has absolutely none of its predecessor’s manic charm.

"...Squarely targeted at the movie-going demographic that finds culinary ecstasy in Froot Loops-and-Jolt Cola pick-me-ups, marathon PlayStation weekends, and..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Dirty Shame

John Waters, America's king of trash, is back with this tale of sex addiction, fetishes, and mad, bad, lascivious squirrel sexin’.

"...a Japanese restroom. It’s a sex farce on an Ecstasy cocktail, leavened, appropriately enough, with not much of anything,..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Garden State

A mash note to love that speaks to Generation Y as powerfully as The Graduate did to the Boomers.

"...State, a zealously dreamy tale of love, loss, and ecstasy among twentysomething misfits in the brackish wilds of modern..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Little Otik

Brazenly bizarre animated feature by Czech filmmaker Svankmajer.

"...oaken babe, she takes to it with hysterical non-partum ecstasy, swaddling it in a blanket and insisting they care..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Anniversary Party

"...by the time Skye produces a dozen hits of Ecstasy (gifts of “love” for the couple, she beams). Soon..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Better Living Through Circuitry

"...his credit he does tackle the omnipresent drugs and Ecstasy questions head-on. He even manages to find a friendly..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Groove

"...surprise planned for his girlfriend Harmony (Firgens), David swallows Ecstasy for the first time. Through David we also become..."

June 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Like a Hurricane

Harnessing Lauren Larson's live hurricane on Ume's new Phantoms

"...the dichotomy that defines Ume, the agony and the ecstasy of control and release...."

Nov. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

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