You Can Leave Your Hat On

Watching movies in Marfa

"...1 through 5, the fest's agenda of old, new, experimental, and traditional films intersected with the idiosyncratic local population..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Jardine Libaire

On the Road, From San Fran to Taipei

Two new film series bebop and globe-hop

"...Series covers the gamut, examining everything from Stan Brakhage's experimental films to Shirley Clarke's abstract expressionism and everything in..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Feature by Raymond Blanton

Kortedala Syndrome

Night falls over Scandinavia

"...honey." In other words: The group's third album, Private Cinema, sounds like Animal Collective on tranquilizers, an amalgam of..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

When There's Nothing Left to Burn ...

Cinematexas throws itself a Viking Funeral

"...week marks the end of the road for the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival. After spending the last 10..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Something Out of Nothing

Joe Swanberg, anti-director, on Hannah Takes the Stairs

"...is the much-hyped rise (and fall?) of a contemporary cinematic tendency – mostly young, white, and male – in..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Blue Water, White Death and Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

"...Benchley's bible for Jaws, the only work of intentional cinema verité ever to play Tarantino's QT Fest, and the..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...and serious cinema like Blackboard Jungle had one basic message: Your children..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

... And the 'West' is History

How Big State Productions' little monologue show changed Austin theatre

"...and Refraction Arts and Rubber Repertory, this was our experimental theatre company, the most daring, the most innovative theatrically,..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

What Hath Eagle Wrought?

After the smoke cleared, 'The Whole Shootin' Match' helped give rise to the contemporary indie

"...the first year [programmed] for new voices and more experimental films. ... The difference now ... is everything surrounding..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Louis Black

A Family Affair

Those Canadians are too damn happy. Must be the the donuts.

"...warmed up the cold winters with last year's Underwater Cinematographer, and while they aren't officially connected to BSS, they..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

By Example

The TFPF panelist screenings

"...films since 1969 – while also heading avant-garde and experimental distributor Canyon Cinema and teaching at the likes of..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Working Beauty

In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns, Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told

"...Company, when it was housed in an abandoned three-theatre cinema on East Ben White, Cullum was tapping the power..."

March 11, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The Austin Shakespeare Festival gets a roof over its head and a place of its own, and Austin Lyric Opera gets a new season and a cool million

"...several false starts – among them, the former adult cinema on South Congress – the Zinkgrafs got a look..."

March 5, 2004 Arts Column by Robert Faires

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...critical and commercial success with Apocalypse Now, a genuine cultural/cinematic sensation. Furthermore, Coppola was an outspoken cinematic visionary committed..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Page Two

Meet our new Web site; local film news; and tackling denial, from the city budget to the Republican right.

"...Criminally Insane (benefiting AFS and the Center for Young Cinema). Chainsaw's cinematographer is Daniel Pearl, who made his film..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Behind the Screens

Hidden Hollywood and other secret histories

"...fierce-willed self-promotion, and outspoken pronouncements on the liberation of cinema, Maya Deren is ingrained in the mythology of American..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Slack Where We Started

Richard Linklater and John Pierson Ponder 'Slacker' and Its Aftermath

"...Plus, the past decade has seen so much navel-gazing cinema, the kind that's all about the filmmakers publicly working..."

June 29, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chanson Anglais

Air heads in America.

"...If French pop music were as realized as French cinema, Catherine Deneuve, not Björk, would have been the star..."

June 15, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two

Why Mike Clark-Madison's cover story will be informative even to the most experienced city veteran, and why the work of exploitation director Stephanie Rothman deserves serious study.

"...In the late Seventies, I ran with the CinemaTexas gang, the film programming society of the UT Radio-Television-Film..."

May 18, 2001 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Japanese fourpiece Mono is too conventional to be tagged experimental. Post-rock might be a more apt classification. It's hard..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Short Stories

From Hollywood to Austin and beyond: the rise and rise of short film online

"...Mike Swenson's "Maid! Madonna! Whore! The Latina in American Cinema" nabbed the prize. A fun, marimba-scored short, it currently..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...invitation to The Other Side. Conjuring an emotive aural cinema out of guitars and effects, they're nothing short of..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...Loose Diamond successfully traded in roots-rockin' for a more experimental brand of singer-songwriter fare on last year's Man vs...."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

"...finally went a week without mentioning the folks at Cinemaker Co-op, and so to correct that glaring absence of..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Film news from around Austin

"...luck. As for the second turnover of late, Regal Cinemas has announced that they will be relocating Charly Raines,..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

sex, lies, and videotape; King of the Hill; Out of Sight

"...the other night, I was again reminded of his cinematic brilliance and skill at narrative storytelling. Soderbergh's filmography is..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

The Lunch's Last Supper

"...Friday original music slots and Sunday acoustic shows were "experimental stuff" all along, and that live music isn't out..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Iron Writer

"...McCanlies worked his way through Southern Methodist University's graduate cinema program as a Dallas cop. An early screenplay, Louisiana..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Further Reflections

"...in time, serves as the fulcrum for Joe Lovett's cinematic exploration of his family and the dynamics that fashioned..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

"...which a screening of Holloweird, a new collection of experimental, bizarre, and cutting-edge horror films will be shown simultaneously..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

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