Beware the Jungle Trap

Director Jim Bryan on Hollywood's seedy and sublime

"...z-movie connoisseurs at Bleeding Skull! (read all about the restoration from Bryan and Bleeding Skull! founder Joseph Ziemba here)...."

July 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin's Paramount Theatre Turns 100

As the grande dame of Austin theatres turns 100, it matters more than ever

"...in for a second, fans of the Summer Classic Film Series: a Holiday Inn. People Who Cared..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Weird, Weird West

Giddings gets retro-futuristic for Weird West Fest

"...like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells wrote it or filmmaking pioneer Georges Méliès put it on the screen, it..."

Dec. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Burning and The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Another gruesome twosome for your weekend's viewing

"...Y'know, it's funny. Considering that the filmmaking Weinstein brothers of Miramax fame made their feature-writing debut..."

May 25, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Crimewave'

Sam Raimi's weirdest, plus nunsploitation and swinging sleazy London

"...something more surreally resurrected than Shout! Factory's latest loving restoration. After Evil Dead first draft Into the Woods, Crimewave..."

May 18, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Il Generale Della Rovere

Il Generale Della Rovere is the bridge between Rossellini's move from neorealism to artificial realism

"...its initial release, and Criterion has helpfully made the film available once again with this new restoration. This Italian..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

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

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...square feet of exhibit space with everything from IMAX films to pickup trucks, the story behind the biggest history..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

After a Fashion

All that Stephen Allows.

"...silver-screen glamour. A tribute to Sirk by the Austin Film Society is currently running at the Paramount. You've already..."

June 9, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Day Trips & Beyond: March Events Roundup

Spring is the season for Texas travel

"...After being closed for almost three months of restoration work, the Orange Show Monument on the east side..."

Feb. 29, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

DVDanger: Streets of Fire

A rock & roll fable hits Blu-ray, plus more new releases

"...This Shout! Select release and restoration doesn't just open up the film to a new,..."

June 18, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Don Coscarelli Returns With Phantasm: Ravager

Great balls of dire

"...the 1979 original is reborn again with a 4K restoration...."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: Jungle Trap

VHS madness needs a little help to get on tape

"...Their latest restoration is more of a first release. James Bryan, along..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Rolling Stones

Dinosaur DVDs with a smattering of punk, porn, and R&B

"...in order to compete with the Fab Four on film, gets thrown into their tour entourage, and though his..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Battleship Potemkin (Blu-ray)

Battleship Potemkin still packs a lumpen proletariat wallop 85 years after it was first released

"...World War II. It ignores the basic fact that filmmaking, like any other art form, is at its lusty..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

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

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

Scanlines

Dream for an Insomniac

"...that he's her destined soulmate. In some ways, the film works, particularly Skye as the doe-eyed dreamer with a..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...projects from around the nation featuring such concepts as "restoration and preservation" of the watershed. http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa_abstracts/grants/97/water/novotny.html...."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Banned Leader: The Contradiction of Frank Zappa in Zappa

Alex Winter sees the combative side of a cultural maverick

"...in the near-mythical Zappa archive, a vastly complicated digital restoration project that took dozens of professionals and a $1.2..."

Jan. 6, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Vaults: "Comin' at Ya!" Again

Drafthouse Films re-releases the 1981, 3-D spectacle, "Comin' at Ya!"

"...since, is currently touring Texas theatres, courtesy of Drafthouse Films. The Austin Chronicle was there the first time around,..."

Feb. 24, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

Animation Station

Through ADVision, Austin has become a hotspot for producing English-dubbed anime. Who knew?

"...being dubbed into English -- like thousands of anime films before it -- for mass consumption on video and..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Scanlines

"...director's credit. Listed as director is Donna Deitch, the filmmaker who, in 1985, broke into feature filmmaking with the..."

June 16, 1995 Arts Feature

Jenny Nulf's Top 10 Films in 2020

"2020 didn't take away my love for cinema"

"...the beginning of 2020 I went to a Hyperreal Film Club event for Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels. I hadn't..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

An Error

"...comprehensive and well analyzed from the Tal Michael's documentary film Bukra Fil Mish-Mish. However, I would like to draw..."

Nov. 14, 2020 Postmarks

Day Trips & Beyond: Daytripping in the Age of a Pandemic

Stay home, stay safe, and still scratch that travel itch

"...U.S. park ranger), and an update on horned lizard restoration efforts. Season 1 is still available at the website,..."

April 8, 2020 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin Brings Back Suspiria

Landmark horror gets the soundtrack it deserves

"...in 2013, the band headlined the inaugural Housecore Horror Film Festival, topping out the first leg of their first..."

July 16, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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