Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Animation

Five works of superior, ambitious animation.

"...wilderness. Seeking shelter within, he encounters a “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” fever dream of multiplying objects engaging in Busby Berkeley dance..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Wrong Cops

French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.

"...in the case of Myrin’s Officer Holmes) particular fetishistic fever dream. Eric Wareheim of the comedy team Tim and..."

Jan. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Most-Read Film Reviews of 2013

Hey, 'After Earth' lands on a list that isn't worst-of-year

"...... Luhrmann has always had a knack with the fever of passion, but here he only catches high fever’s..."

Jan. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Top 10

One hundred individual LP choices

"...9) The Octopus Project, Fever Forms (Peek-a-Boo)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Jayne Mansfield's Car

This Billy Bob Thornton vehicle hits the skids with its confessional monologues and confrontational encounters, even though Robert Duvall provides some redeeming moments.

"...turns into a grotesquerie fitting of a Carson McCullers’ fever dream...."

Sept. 13, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Playback

Octopus Project returns – with vocals! Plus, inside the foliage at Austin City Limits.

"...video for "Whitby," a song off their fifth album Fever Forms, in stores Tuesday. The group describes making the..."

July 5, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Where Is the Next Austin?

"...owners, strain on natural resources. The episodes of cedar fever were a brilliant way to mark the passage of..."

May 6, 2013 Postmarks

Trash Dance

The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.

"...forms the heart of Trash Dance, showing Orr’s creative fever as her understanding of the job deepens and the..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The AggreGAYtor: July 30

Your daily dose of LGBTQ news

"...• Queerlympic fever: Danny Boyle sneaks a lesbian kiss into the opening..."

July 30, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Living an almost feral existence on a wild, low-lying area of the Louisiana coast known as the Bathtub, young Hushpuppy narrates her own vivid life story.

"...other than film (although it bears resemblance to some fever dreams I vaguely recall having had as a child)...."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Film Flam

Birdsong, 'Bindlestiffs,' Amy Heckerling, and more

"...Festival will present the Austin premiere of Andrew Bird: Fever Year, the concert doc that chronicles a year of..."

June 6, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Home Movies

Q&A with "Family Nightmare" director Dustin Defa

"...Defa’s second year at SXSW; his narrative feature Bad Fever premiered in Emerging Visions in 2011. Bad Fever will..."

March 15, 2012 SXSW Post by Leah Churner

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...Director: Debbie Lum When an American man with "yellow fever" meets a Chinese woman half his age online, documenting..."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

Bieber Fever strikes the cineplex.

"...beginning and end, as the film emphasizes how Bieber Fever circulated entirely through social media outlets. He is the..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Top 10s

"...3) THE GARY Logan (Cedar Fever)..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Music Feature

Bee Gees

Mythology

"...into the Stevie Wonder-lite "Jive Talkin'" and Saturday Night Fever soundtrack ("More Than a Woman," "Night Fever," "How Deep..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fall X: The Good News

Standouts From the Fall 2010 Fashion Front

"...few trends do stand out, even if some are fever-pitch versions of last year's direction...."

Sept. 28, 2010 Design Post by Anne Harris

Monkeys Gone to Heaven

Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago sounds the call ... for balut!

"...AC: L.A. has Dengue Fever, who turned everyone on to the psychedelic pop/rock music..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Despicable Me

Steve Carell provides the voice of the supervillain Gru in this animated movie in which he plots to capture the moon.

"...(all too common in these heady days of 3-D fever). Produced by Chris Meledandri (Horton Hears a Who!, Ice..."

July 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Film

Daily reviews and interviews

"...its top remix master in "White Lines and the Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug." ("Quadrangle" won the Jury..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

Critics Poll

"...'SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE MEKONG' Dengue Fever (Thomas Fawcett)..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Music Feature

The Laughing

"...The LaughingFever..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Fantastic Fest: 'House of the Devil'

1983 is back from the grave

"...uneven Triggerman and the Alan Smitheeing of his Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, West seemed unlikely to create something..."

Sept. 30, 2009 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bernadette Nason

A local storytelling star gets a chance to spin a yarn on a national stage

"...did you catch her British sterling turn in Hay Fever this summer? – will be taking the stage at..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

News/Print

Sci-fi, slam, and sainted stoners: what's happening in books this week

"...releases of his and her books – his: novel Fever Chart (McSweeney's); hers: the "prose poem memoir" Stoners and..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Books Column by Kimberley Jones

Chile on the Menu

Cine las Americas screens Chilean Cinema of the Post-dictatorship era

"...La Fiebre del Loco (Loco Fever) (D: Andrés Wood, 2001): A temporarily lifted ban on..."

April 17, 2009 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Mining the Soul Part 2

Reissues, continued

"...sister music to the Cambodian pop aped by Dengue Fever. If you like Dengue Fever, try sipping on some..."

Jan. 15, 2009 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Dengue Fever

"...Dengue FeverVenus on Earth (M80)..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Rainin in Paradize

Manu Chao, changing the world one neighborhood at a time

"...out Mano Negra's major label U.S. debut, 1989's Puta's Fever.] Until recently, with someone like Gogol Bordello, there wasn't..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Exit Music for a Film Fest Producer

Sending off South by Southwest's Matt Dentler

"...torture-porn film? Dentler caught Eli Roth's debut feature, Cabin Fever, at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002; Lions..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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