Geek Out!

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 15-hour epic at long last (and longer), in a Criterion Collection box to end all Criterion boxes

"...great consternation rather than the gloomy but crisply contrasty restoration committed to disc here...."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Food-o-File

Barbecue, competitive kolache eating, and more new babies

"...a restored Victorian house that was part of the film set for the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre (and..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Happenings

May 31-June 6

"...MEETING: AFRICA'S CHILDREN TODAY features a screening of the film Coming to Say Goodbye, followed by a presentation from..."

June 1, 2007 News Feature

Happenings

March 29 - April 5

"...TEXAS SPRINGS: Protection, Restoration, and Stewardship This year's Environmental Defense's annual water conference..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature

The Gauntlet

"...the end of the end of this year’s SXSW film festival, but I can’t leave well enough alone. I’ll..."

March 20, 2007 SXSW Post by Spencer Parsons

Just in Time for Nader '08

Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan on An Unreasonable Man

"...have been, but Phil Donahue speculates such in the film – then this erases it and starts scribbling an..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Happenings

"...DAY begins with several hours of trail maintenance, habitat restoration, and work in the native plant nursery. 9am-1pm. Hornsby..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature

The Fallen Idol

The first of three collaborations between Carol Reed and Graham Greene

"...When lists of the greatest directors in film history are compiled, they invariably feature names like Akira..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Film News

Ninja-pirate-supermodels, the Austin Polish Film Festival, and zombies (of course)

"...Central Texas' biggest independent film success story of the year? How about All the..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Paramount and State Theatres: Archives to UT

Some 3,000 items – from playbills and posters to contracts and correspondence – from the Paramount and State theatres are being donated to the UT Fine Arts Library

"...dating to the beginning of the historic opera house's restoration in 1971. Quite a few performances and screenings have..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...has courted in his re-election bid is the Texas Restoration Project, a shadowy, staunchly conservative gang of evangelicals; as..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature

Game 6

Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.

"...Novelist Don DeLillo debuts as a screenwriter in this film predicated on the events that occurred during the sixth..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reagan Film Fest

A group of student filmmakers hopes to reshape Ausinites' vision of the Eastside school

"...Reagan High is lined with poster boards advertising the films under production inside: Hood Fight, Homelessness, East Side Life,..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Restorative Powers

Moving Image Archivists converge on Austin, ready to party

"...Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. Various archivists will show obscure short films and engage in an archivists' version of a smackdown...."

Nov. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune

Robert Schenkkan's 'The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune' eases us back into that long-ago world of screwball comedy and serves up some new fun

"...British classical thespian who leaped into the saddle of silent-film Westerns and has improbably become a range-riding hero by..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Clip and Save

The 2005 Paramount Summer Film Classics series

"...The Leopard (1963/1983 restoration, new print), Thursday, Aug. 11, & Friday, Aug. 12,..."

May 20, 2005 Screens Feature

NY (Heart) TFF

A report from the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival

"...In its fourth year, New York's Tribeca Film Festival, which concluded last weekend, has begun to find..."

May 13, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Dolce Vita

Decadence, perhaps inevitably, dates itself: Fellini's much-censored 'La Dolce Vita' no longer shocks in its depiction of upper-class excess and listless living the way it did upon release in 1960, but it's a gorgeous artifact, nonetheless

"...LA DOLCE VITA Koch Lorber Films, $34.99..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

The Leopard

Criterion releases a three-disc restoration project of Visconti's regal The Leopard

"...The first viewing of Luchino Visconti's three-hour 1963 film Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) is typically Italian: paced like..."

June 25, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Add Restoration of Hogg to List

"...necessary to give Austin a state-of-the-art, midsized theatre and film house. As our committee chairman, Mr. David Honeycutt, has..."

Feb. 25, 2004 Postmarks

The Radical Context

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center's Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941

"...It's tough to be an experimental filmmaker these days. Not only do you have to find..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Page Two

Contemplating the devastating effects of redistricting on democracy and the transformational effects of knowing Ondine and Ed Lowry.

"...Even accepting the most optimistic accounts of rebuilding and restoration efforts by no means leads to the accompanying conclusion..."

Oct. 17, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...of Bell, Klein & Hoffman, he helped oversee the restoration of the Paramount Theatre, Littlefield and Hirschfeld houses, and..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Greed (1925)

Erich von Stroheim's 10-hour masterpiece-cum-folly, 1925's Greed, is the Holy Grail of Silent Film, a film which exists only in dusty script fragments, fading publicity stills, and the imaginations of dreamers.

"...masterpiece-cum-folly, 1925's Greed, is the Holy Grail of silent film, a film which exists only in dusty script fragments,..."

April 11, 2003 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Bright Lights, Little City

It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

"...Associates intended to re-create when it took on the restoration of the theatre in the late Nineties. Although the..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Dancing About Architecture

Mars Music store goes the way of Halley's Comet.

"...in 1982, making this the 20th anniversary of the restoration. Awn says that with the additional elements like the..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Age of Restoration

Reviled at the time of their release, silent cinema classics Metropolis and The Thief of Bagdad get their due at the Paramount Theatre this weekend.

"...Lang's legendary Metropolis -- the first cast-of-thousands science fiction film -- which shows at the Paramount Theatre this Friday..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Treasure Chest

The Vault Disney collection dusts off kid classics from its golden era of live-action films. They still fit -- and beautifully.

"...That's why it's a little scary to revisit the films that fed our childhood fantasies. Would they feel dated?..."

May 10, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...that Mitchell is an urban developer specializing in historic restoration projects ["Postmarks: Not a 'Single-Issue' Candidate," April 26]. Actually,..."

May 3, 2002 Column

TV Eye

Another day, another blah awards show

"...Last Saturday, I tuned into the First Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Awards broadcast live on CBS. Just what..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

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