Paramount Summer Classics Are Back!

Celebration of classic cinema with Brando, Hitchcock, and 1971

"...of 1996, and that's quite a best-of list, including Fargo, Romeo + Juliet, and the home-grown vampires vs crooks..."

May 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Online to Feature Stacey Abrams and N. K. Jemisin in Conversation

James Cameron, Ted Lasso team, Bill Hader also announced

"...Hawley and Andrew Bird: Set in Kansas City 1950, Fargo’s fourth installment follows two crime syndicates jockeying to control..."

Feb. 11, 2021 SXSW Post by Kimberley Jones

How to Deter a Robber ... Politely

Writer/director Maria Bissell welcomes you to Wisconsin

"...into her story of a very unusual burglary: "The Fargo politeness, and also of the silliness of Home Alone,..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Blow the Man Down

Slick and smart New England noir shows the women run the show

"...Their crime in the night tilts the story into Fargo territory, and flips further when they discover that theirs..."

March 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Beyond the Night

Small town thriller intrigues, but never satisfies

"...the film up from being a turgid episode of Fargo or Justified. The father and son trying to negotiate..."

Jan. 26, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Anything

True love overcomes convention in this stylish, earnest romance.

"...Norm, the concerned husband of self-reliant Marge Gunderson in Fargo, but can also cause chills playing faux-John Wayne Gacy..."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...memorable personages in her incomparable career (one that includes Fargo’s Marge Gunderson and the titular Olive Kitteridge)...."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Suburbicon

The dark side of Fifties middle America

"...they realized that they were never going to top Fargo in terms of murder mysteries). Cut to years later..."

Nov. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lucky

Cranky loner (and beloved character actor) faces mortality

"...camera for playing Norm Gunderson in the Coen brothers’ Fargo – stays fixed on Stanton, in part, perhaps, because..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

ATX Television Festival Adds FX's Snowfall

Fest adds more premieres, plus network president panel

"...previously screened the first episodes of The Strain and Fargo. This year, not only will John Singleton's Eighties L.A.-set..."

March 23, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Split Screen: Reanimated

John Pierson's Split Screen begins streaming on FilmStruck

"...premiering today on FilmStruck. 1) Spike Lee, the Real Fargo, Waters Shocks..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Plain Speaking About Complex Things

Robert Jensen on his book Plain Radical and the friendship that inspired it

"...with Koplin went simply, "How did a boy from Fargo, North Dakota, end up here?" (a gag carried over..."

June 17, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

The AggreGAYtor: July 4

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Wells Fargo surveys LGBT investors, finds straight people have a simplistic..."

July 4, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Talking About 'My Generation' at ATX Television Festival

TV celebration adds Austin-shot ABC drama to schedule

"...to discuss his newest show, FX's series adaptation of Fargo...."

April 18, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

A contrarian view

"...I'm a cheerleader. Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Screens Post by Louis Black

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

This doc about the storied department store stays relentlessly on-message.

"...hopeful designer pitching her line to Fashion Director Linda Fargo; bow down to Betty Halbreich, the famously bitchy personal..."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Leah Churner

Headhunters

This Norwegian crime thriller is anchored by a schemer who brings on his own ruin.

"...his own ruin, William H. Macy's Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo. In brief bursts, Headhunters glints with a "Coen Bros...."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

This is the rare horror comedy that near-perfectly balances its blend of grue, guffaws, and gag reflexes.

"...Referencing everything from Deliverance to The Evil Dead to Fargo and nailing its central conceit dead-on (literally!), this is..."

Sept. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Report

Wall Street's Journal; and Three Stories, One Ugly Truth

"...bankers themselves. Instead, the Journal wrote admiringly of Wells Fargo, American Express, State Street, and other powerhouses of finance..."

Feb. 11, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.

"...film from the Coen brothers, won’t be mistaken for Fargo anytime soon. Or Barton Fink or The Man Who..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Truth and Inconsequences

Chuck Klosterman on his life and his latest

"...Lawrence Welk of pop culture. His first book, 2001's Fargo Rock City, chronicled his obsession with hair metal; subsequent..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Books Feature by Audra Schroeder

Immigrants Flex Muscle

Day Without an Immigrant work stoppage and boycott draws more than a million people into the streets nationally; thousands turn out locally

"...the nation to convince local banks – notably Wells Fargo – to offer undocumented immigrants without a Social Security..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

First Night Austin

First Night Austin gets ready to ring out the old year in a big way, with a cultural extravaganza on a scale the city has never before seen

"...event's first go-round: Target, Time Warner, Freescale, HEB, Wells Fargo, and Samsung, which kicked in a cool $100,000 just..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

North Country

Charlize Theron stars in this fictionalized, rousing, but nevertheless predictable account of the first class-action sexual discrimination suit.

"...into working at the mine, McDormand dons her best Fargo accent, but generally has too little to do. Likewise..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

It's not easy being a CEO; and touch a football or feast on fried shrimp, and go to hell

"...on the poor guy! Or Richard Kovacevich at Wells Fargo, who not only had to shoulder a $7.5 million..."

June 24, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

Highwaymen

He may be Mel Gibson's choice to play Jesus, but in this car-chase nightmare Jim Caviezel is on the highway to hell.

"...wife to Molly, but Feore’s character, the oddly named Fargo, is even more of a mystery. "He looks exactly..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intolerable Cruelty

The Coen brothers tackle a comedy of manners and come out winners.

"...best work; it doesn’t have the moral gravity of Fargo or Miller’s Crossing, for example, or even the dear..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...in line for the ATM machine at the Wells Fargo Bank on Far West Boulevard. That is how we..."

March 14, 2003 Column

Pinocchio

"...fantasizing that Peter Stormare would drop by with his Fargo wood-chipper in tow, but it was not to be...."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The Austin Museum of Art's downtown home gets a shot in the arm, and local television devotes more attention to Austin's arts scene.

"...with the announcement of a $100,000 gift from Wells Fargo & Co. The corporate donation, which was engineered by..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

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