Fantasia

"...Directed by: Pixote Hunt, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, James Algar, Francis Glebas, Gaetan Brizzi and Paul..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pocahontas

"...Directed by: Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg. Starring: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, David..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Mouse Hunt

"...Starring: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken, Maury Chaykin, Eric Christmas, Annabelle Gurwitch, William Hickey, Michael Jeter and Vicki..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

An Extra Day of Computer-game Heaven

"...online Hundred Years War and dozens of board wargames), Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan (Crossover Technologies), Steve Beeman and..."

March 6, 1998 Screens Feature

Final Destination 2

"...to say with any certainty whether or not Rube Goldberg would have enjoyed this gross-out teen horror film, but..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...lives with a busy foster mom played by Whoopi Goldberg has an imaginary friend named Bogus, played by Gerard..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked in New York

"...Directed by: Dan Algrant. Starring: Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Timothy Dalton,..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...conducted before a cheering crowd of 10,000 people. In America, Devi's story would take the form of a cartoon..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Top Five

Chris Rock is on a roll with this funny yet pointed comedy, which he wrote and directed, and also stars in.

"...perambulations, seems a more apt comparison (as though Rock’s Eric Rohmer-inspired film I Think I Love My Wife and..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

After a Fashion

You'd think we'd be all star-f***ed out after SXSW, but here it is, Oscar-time and we are just beside ourselves with the bold type and the dropped names! What? No silly. We said "fawned."

"...Lou Gosset Jr., and Halle Berry's dreamy husband, musician Eric Benet. Many mentions were made of the tragedies of..."

March 29, 2002 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Transforming Herself

Sissy Spacek's Most Memorable Movies

"...RAGGEDY MAND: Jack Fisk (1976); with Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard, William Sanderson...."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Great Expectations

Assessing Austin's Class of '96

"...labels or major independents. Spoon, Fastball, Prescott Curlywolf, Ugly Americans, Storyville, and Alejandro Escovedo all were releasing label debuts,..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin Film News: From A(nimation) to Z(ombies)

Production updates from around town and just beyond city limits

"...Demons, the cutout animated supernatural shocker from local one-man-studio Eric Power; then it was Lucky McKee's return to the..."

June 21, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

FronteraFest 2003

It's time again for that annual performance jamboree FronteraFest, and time to mark its first decade of presenting Austin with adventuresome new theatre, comedy, dance, and spoken word by anyone with the courage or folly to take a stage.

"...Paper Moon, by Jeff Goldberg. Play for man, woman, and talking cow...."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...Steve Bognar come straight from their Oscar nomination for American Factory with another examination of blue collar life in..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Adds Speakers, Films

Buzz Aldrin, Kesha, Cory Booker, Cecile Richards, and more

"...Emmy-winning comedian/actor Bob Odenkirk; Preacher team Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Sam Catlin, and Garth Ennis; Time Editor Jeffrey Kluger;..."

Feb. 7, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn

"...Alan Smithee (1997) with Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle, Richard Jeni, Sandra Bernhard, Stephen Tobolowsky, Sylvester Stallone,..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...swathe of firsts, including 82 world premieres, 11 North American premieres, five U.S. debuts, and 43 first-time filmmakers. Festival..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...a New Yorker who becomes engulfed in a Latin American revolution. Allen continues to lay on the high-concept comedy,..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lizzo, Beck Announced as SXSW Keynotes

Festival also adds cyberpunk pioneer Neil Stephenson

"...and keynotes to the conference, including two one-namer musical mavericks: Beck and Lizzo...."

Feb. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities drops, as does Clay Liford's Slash, a..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Austin Shorts at Sundance

David Lowery and the Zellner Bros. to do the 'Dance

"...A woman seeks love and beyond in a small American town."Brick Novax" (Director and Screenwriter: Matt Piedmont) – Penniless..."

Dec. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...a new, more accurate satellite survey of Armenia, an American cartographer forms a powerful bond with an Armenian expatriate..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Theatre Critics Table 2000-2001 Nominations

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

"...through April 2001. Participating critics this year include Austin American-Statesman staff reporters Michael Barnes and Jeanne Claire van Ryzin..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature

SXSW News: Friday

"...future. "It was a reference to Time Warner and America Online," Doolittle's Bonnie Spanogle explains innocently. "It seemed like..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

The Prophecy

"...Gregory Widen; with Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen,Amanda Plummer. VHS Home Video..."

July 12, 1996 Screens Feature

The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

"...Directed by: Dan Algrant. Starring: Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Timothy Dalton,..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov