Faces Places

Celebrating faces in the crowd

"...monumental undertaking, a casual riff on some of the faces and places encountered by the artists and a thoughtful..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City Looking for Faces of Austin

Film competition could mean SXSW screening

"...Austin? That's the question at the beating heart of Faces of Austin, the city-run short film project designed to..."

Nov. 22, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Faces and Places

"...Century Even at its most abstract, photography is about faces and places. All of us have those pictures that..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Faces of Homelessness

Another Downtown attempt to find answers

"...the heat. Food is abundant. There's at least 12 places a day that feed people, from the Sally [Salvation..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Feature by Marc Savlov

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...Land Development Code to create, or preserve, or re-create places that would otherwise be illegal, which makes the other..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

"You Can't Stay Here": Austin's Unhoused Population Faces an Uncertain Future

Council, police, and providers confront camp challenge

"...measured in months or years. People currently camping in places that are now illegal have less than six weeks..."

May 21, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AMOA and Mexic-Arte Shows Take Us to Personal Places

"...robust and stocky, with more detail given to their faces and hands, and although the characters remain expressionless, these..."

May 22, 1998 Arts Feature

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"...Blond and tan with muscles in all the right places, Rocky is 180 degrees from Shelley's cadaverous horror in..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Passing Show

This rock documentary about musician Ronnie Lane can be described in one word (or is it three?): Ooh la la.

"...Lane’s best known song titles (co-written with fellow Small Faces bandmate Ron Wood) for a summary statement seems a..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Monrovia, Indiana

Frederick Wiseman's passive observation gets mired in rural life

"...of time for the mind to roam to surprising places – isn’t "I learned this.” It’s "I learned this..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Amélie

Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?

"...isn’t alone; Jeunet has packed his precious universe with faces that articulate way beyond words, and he frames those..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Five Films to See in Austin This Week

Your weekly film guide for Feb. 2 through Feb. 8

"...You can also check out Varda’s most recent film, Faces Places, a collaboration with mural artist JR, which also..."

Feb. 2, 2018 Events Post by Josh Kupecki

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2017

"...enhance this fresh take on a coming-of-age story. 4) Faces Places..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

...&More... Premieres Growth Through Acceptance

An ATX hip-hop soundtrack to futile existence

"...spiked with faded nihilism, drives the group’s debut single “Faces Places,” in which a pair of dynamic verses –..."

Feb. 13, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

You Can Count On Me

"...Lonergan plays it too loud and in the wrong places. And the edits are jarring, taking us away too..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

London

"...Thames; No. 10, Downing Street; and other, less familiar places. While the camera pans about, taking in the conglomeration..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Distinguished Gentleman

"...in the early Eighties with comedies such as Trading Places and 48HRS., Murphy seems to have lost -- or..."

Dec. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

MirrorMask

The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.

"...fairy-tale quality about them that transcends genre boundaries and places him further from Tolkien, Bradbury, and Lovecraft and closer,..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Postman

"...his other directorial effort, Dances With Wolves, The Postman places Costner in the role of a loner whose flight..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Smith turns his stoner Greek chorus into leading men on a mission.

"...films Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy, this final outing places the inept, scatological-humor-inclined pair at the forefront of the..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Smoking, Austin: 10 Years Later

Chronicle revisits smoking ban at bars, music venues

"...an ordinance to ban smoking in nearly all public places, including bars, music venues, and bowling alleys...."

Sept. 4, 2015 News Post by R.U. Steinberg

À Bientôt, Agnès Varda

Looking back on the Belgian-French cinema great, who died today

"...on a high note with her Oscar-nominated 2017 documentary Faces Places. Agnès From Then to Now..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Out Wins Austin Critics Top Prize

The Shape of Water, Timothée Chalamet get nods

"...Best Documentary: Faces Places (D: Agnès Varda and JR)..."

Jan. 8, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

Let's celebrate us

"...with the humanist themes that our last week’s pick, Faces Places, taps into...."

Oct. 20, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Your Weekend in Film

More than mere faces in the crowd

"...This Week’s Pick: Faces Places..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

News Roundup: Death and Lawsuits

Ken Paxton has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

"...in two shootings this weekend; Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an ethics complaint and a fraud investigation (from Houston!);..."

July 6, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Fusebox Facts, Sullivan’s Travels, and More Recommended Events

Some recommendations for the week ahead

"...year, Agnès Varda’s self-focused documentary revisits her past through places, photography, trinkets, and other colorful marginalia that she deems..."

Jan. 24, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Princes of Punk

New Kinks “Picture Book”

"...quite perfect, but it sneers in all the right places and faces...."

Jan. 9, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Groover's Paradise

Former Rolling Stone scribe Ed Ward describes trying to track Doug Sahm.

"...But that was Doug: constantly spinning off enthusiasm for places and people you'd never heard of, making your head..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Ed Ward

TribFest Recap: Red and Blue Teams Find Common Ground Before the 88th

Six points of agreement as the new Legislature coalesces

"...elected Nov. 8 and to convene on Jan. 10, faces the Herculean task of lawmaking in a sharply divided..."

Sept. 25, 2022 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

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