Five Easy Pieces

"...rigs and slum through life as an average joe. Five Easy Pieces is also the film that contains Nicholson’s..."

Aug. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Six (Not So) Easy Pieces

Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.

"...Thirty-five years later and a continent over, local filmmakers and..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

Austin Over Easy

The Chronicle Guide to Breakfast Dining

"...traditional morning repast included a plate of eggs over easy with a side of grits, a breakfast steak or..."

March 13, 1998 Food Feature

What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?

Making the grade

"...scores as part of its new A-F accountability system, five schools in the Austin Independent School District received failing..."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Five More to Die For, Part 2: Must-See Movies You Missed in 2011

What you missed: Na Hong-jin's 'The Yellow Sea'

"...director adept at both labyrinthine plotting and bullet-riddled set pieces that completely negate the need for Epinephrine jabs in..."

Jan. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Man Trouble

"...saving graces. Carole Eastman, who worked with Rafelson on Five Easy Pieces, returns with considerably less success but there..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Jaw-Dropping, Eye-Popping, Marvelous Relics of Yore

VHS, I can't quit you

"...tape, I felt a little bit kid-in-a-candy-store... and at five tapes for $10, I figured it'd be like throwing..."

May 13, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

NFL Midseason Report

"...of the year, maybe the game of the past five years, between the undefeated Patriots and the Super Bowl..."

Oct. 29, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Instant Classic

Paramount Theatre's Summer 2000 Series

"...Easy Rider, 7:30pm..."

May 19, 2000 Screens Feature

Marjorie Prime

"...career spans from Elia Kazan’s East of Eden to Five Easy Pieces, and from there to Minority Report and..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Scope of Evil

"...in which case it would become an Evil prediction. Five Easy Pieces (a quintet of other matters on my..."

Sept. 10, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

No Good Deed

Samuel L. Jackson as an auto-theft detective, perhaps in over his head. Not reviewed at press time.

"...a gaggle of international bond thieves. With Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice) at the..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Cindy Widner

Miss Congeniality

America's Sweetheart plays a detective who goes undercover to vie in a beauty pageant.

"...never suspect it was the same guy who shot Five Easy Pieces and Paper Moon -- scenes are restrained..."

Dec. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Circle Sky

For your resident Head, the Monkees' Michael Nesmith still lassos 'Circle Sky' country-rock

"...the lead-in to BBS Productions' Dennis Hopper directorial debut, Easy Rider. Rafelson and Nicholson then made the even better..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Toronto International Film Festival

A first-timer's diary

"...again. In a decade, 1972 to 1982, Coppola made five great American films The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather:..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music

Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert

"...La Follia made a pretty convincing case for the five sonatas presented in the second concert of its 2017-18..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

NFL Teams Already Looking to Rebuild for '08

"...on an aging team. Luckily, they could have a top-five pick to do so. Five Easy Pieces (a quintet..."

Nov. 19, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Puzzling: Cowboys/Patriots Revisited

"...third quarter. Brady ended the game with a mind-blowing five touchdowns and is my current vote for league MVP...."

Oct. 15, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

Texans vs. Colts: the Game Plan

"...whilst using a power running game, and the occasional five-yard slant route to not only fatten the scoreboard, but..."

Sept. 24, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

'Life, the Universe, and Everything' Bowl

"...be showing the Texans/Colts game this Sunday. Tune in.] Five Easy Pieces (a quintet of other football matters on..."

Sept. 17, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

'One From the Heart'

Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback

"...terrible irony is that Coppola didn't knock out four masterpieces in a row, but five. Derided, neglected, dismissed, One..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

A Whole Lotta Lava Going On

Winter/Spring Movie Sneaks

"...and Flood are also on tap for the first five months of 1997. Then icebergs strike this summer when..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

When Artificial Intelligence Meets a Failing Mind

Sci-fi drama Marjorie Prime questions human identity

"...Hamm) has been dead for decades, while 86-year-old Marjorie (Five Easy Pieces' Lois Smith) is going senile. When she..."

June 29, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Fall That Was

"...with less, but this fall Cameron gets the vote. Five Easy Pieces (a quintet of other football matters on..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Sports Post by Timothy Braun

On the Lege

Opening day of the special legislative session featured more plot lines than a MASH episode.

"...originate, has broken down the Perry tax proposal into five easy pieces (HBs 1-5) to help expedite the process...."

April 21, 2006 News Column by Amy Smith

For Your Consideration ...

Austin Film Festival Preview

"...Fleetwood Mac frontwoman. Look for Seventies It-Girl Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, Nashville) as a karaoke diva named Bambi..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Screens Feature

Soul Sushi

A Tradition Honored

"...still surviving. I chose nigiri-zushi a la carte, two pieces per order of yellowtail, abalone, crab, and raw shrimp,..."

July 25, 1997 Food Feature by Meredith Phillips

ATX Television: Bailey Breaks into Anime

'Party of Five's Scott Wolf hangs with the vocal elite for 'Kaijudo'

"...Nineties, then odds are that Bailey from Party of Five was a part of your life. Now actor Scott..."

June 6, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Behind the Wheel With Deezie Brown

After five years of fine-tuning, the perfectionist producer and rapper rolls out 5th Wheel Fairytale

"...Fairytale isn't a stand-alone album. It's chapter one (of five) in the soundtrack to a book (which Deezie plans..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

Pepe Romero

The Austin Classical Guitar Society scored a great coup in booking guitar virtuoso Pepe Romero, who treated the sold-out house to a hypnotizing, intoxicating evening of Spanish grace and melody.

"...technical control were astonishing. Watching him play, it was easy to let the mind drift to images of pastoral..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

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