The Racial Divide in Movies

The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on "race" movies

"...Want to Be Loved," Savannah Churchill stars as the femme fatale...."

July 25, 2014 Screens Feature by Louis Black

SXSW Live Shot: Lou Reed Tribute

‘Real Good Time Together’

"...Again,” and other happy interpreters included Cindy Lee Berryhill (“Femme Fatale“), Reed champion Bill Bentley’s local Hole in the..."

March 15, 2014 Music Post by Michael Toland

Dark Times in Austin With Noir City

The czar of noir Eddie Muller on Walter White and classic dread

"...March 1 2pm Larceny (1948) Shelley Winters plays the femme fatale to Jean Caulfield's far from merry widow in..."

Feb. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Happy Holidays from ALEC

Lobbyists continue program of drafting corporate-supported bills

"...conceal both their sponsorship and their process, like the femme fatale in Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives": "She's filing..."

Dec. 27, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Playback: Priced Out?

Soon, Austin’s golden geese – musicians – will be priced out of the live music capital

"...were touching renditions of the Velvet Underground's "Sunday morning," "Femme Fatale," and Reed's "Satellite of Love." Reed died on..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lady Be Good

Austin Film Society presents pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck

"...were defined by shrewdness and unsentimentality: Double Indemnity's cold-blooded femme fatale, the nightclub chanteuse dropping street smarts on Gary..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Black Angels

"...charging "Don't Play With the Guns" starring Josephine, a femme fatale finding happiness in a warm revolver. Not every..."

April 5, 2013 Music Review by Austin Powell

The AggreGAYtor: October 1

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...documentary claims that James Bond producers sent in a femme fatale to suss out George Lazenby’s suspected homosexuality. The..."

Oct. 1, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

ATX Television: TV Fantasy Goes Mainstream

Tales from 'Firefly,' 'Teen Wolf,' 'Supernatural,' & more

"...Reynolds (played by Nathan Fillion) tussles again with his femme fatale nemesis Saffron (Christina Hendricks). Molina recalled, “I’m standing..."

June 2, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Killing

As with the proto-New Wave French gangster epics of the period, the heist's the thing in this early Kubrick film

"...score, the crooked cop, the weaselly specialist, and the femme fatale (a head-turning Marie Windsor). But every trope Kubrick..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Letters at 3AM: The Bad and the Beautiful

Film noir cuts through the cant of America's idealism

"...played by the inimitable Jane Greer. Of all the femmes fatales in all the joints in all the world,..."

May 20, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Hellraisers

How classic horror movies made misfits out of these rockers

"...outfit Children in Heat is teaming up with horror-movie-influenced, femme-fatale cabaret/performance troupe Dolls From the Crypt (just don't call..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Thieves of Manhattan

Take this publishing industry satire to the beach, but don't turn your brain off just yet

"...evolves (devolves?) into a thriller complete with gunplay, a femme fatale, a treasure map, and double crosses. At the..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Books Review by James Renovitch

All Shades of Black

How do you define film noir?

"...films were crime and mystery films often featuring a femme fatale and a private detective protagonist, usually of the..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

City of Angels

"...long on it, like the gams of a Chandler femme fatale. The Los Angeles of six decades past is..."

April 16, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Happy Together

Is there any contemporary American director who can so effortlessly invoke the essence of tragic love and endless loss as easily as Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai?

"...icy-cool killer (Leon Lai Ming) and the equally amoral femme fatale (Michele Reis), who acts as his agent-cum-existential heart..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Private Midnight

Private Midnight vaults from police procedural to erotic thriller to occult horror to philosophical tome

"...cop finding some kind of redemption after a redheaded femme fatale walks into his life? In Private Midnight, Birch..."

April 10, 2009 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Neko Case

"...powers up Neko Case's rapturous howl while shards of femme fatale whiz about a musical jet stream of newly..."

March 6, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dug Up

Cyndi Williams pens a gothic ghost story, and what a demented, dramatic tale it is

"...at life's shit storm. Combine that with Liz Fisher's femme fatale, and this is one sensationally acted show. Honest...."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

How to Get to Portland

Full recap of the Texecutioners triple win at last weekend's Battle Royale western regionals

"...secret arsenal of the deadly three sisters – D-Bomb, Femme Fatale and Blonde An' Bitchen. But the line between..."

Oct. 8, 2008 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

Off the Record

The Butthole Surfers reunite, Sarah Jarosz paddles up Nickel Creek, and Shearwater soars to new heights

"...It was magical." Whereas 2006's Palo Santo culled the femme fatale spirit of Nico for inspiration, Shearwater's exquisite Matador..."

May 23, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

"...smithereens with Byron-esque fervor while forever mooning over some femme fatale. The title track's opening and inebriating pool-hall anthem..."

April 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Energy Forward

Sofia Resnick gets her kee-op! on at Master Yi Martial Arts Academy

"...of sorts about four fortune hunters – an antihero, femme fatale, thief, and mercenary – on a quest to..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Spanks for Comin' In

Getty goes to Lobo and gets spanked.

"...and the chick behind the counter, named Bell, a femme fatale with intricately detailed eye make-up and little inhibition,..."

June 1, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

'Friday Night Lights': Up to Now

"...Smash." TYRA: Issues ultimatum to mother (played by the femme fatale from Fletch) after watching stepfather go Ike Turner..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...Lip lock. Femme fatale takes pawn. The Swamp erupts...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

From Stuff, Art

The 21st 'New American Talent' exhibition features a whopping 72 works of art, many of them created from everyday objects

"...Nelson's heroine even seems shifty enough to be a femme fatale, akin to Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations of Oscar Wilde's..."

July 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Amanda Douberley

Summer Reading

"...dark alleys, and dead ends. He's got a red-haired femme fatale – "witch"-like, she is, with "red-flecked eyes" –..."

June 9, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

La Bête Humaine

Jean Renoir shot it in 1938, just as Hitler's troops were occupying the Sudetenland and Neville Chamberlain and his band of appeasers were bending Europe's back to the whims of the Third Reich. So, you'll forgive him for making such a dark picture.

"...soul terrified of his own demons, she the victimized femme fatale resigned to whatever inevitable tragedy awaits her...."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...crime boss Kirk Douglas over Jane Greer. As the femme fatale, Greer is a revelation (not exactly as an..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

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