'Les Enfants Terribles'

"...Ivan's Childhood (Criterion, $29.95): Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's unforgettable 1962 debut..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Paul

Two comic-book geeks (played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) encounter an alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) in Area 51.

"...(who bore more than superficial resemblance to Superbad’s screenwriters, childhood friends Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg). Paul, written by..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Let the Right One In

This multi-award-winning Swedish film might be summarized as a vampire tween romance, but that cheap and tawdry sum-up does zero justice to the magnificent emotional resonance of this gem. A discussion of the adaptation follows the film.

"...seems frighteningly freighted with the surreal, the mysterious, the forbidden. Hedebrant, in one of the film's two remarkable, standout..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Will the Real Norma Khouri Please Stand Up?

AFS Documentary Tour presents Forbidden Lie$

"...Forbidden Lie$ opens with a close-up of a woman in..."

June 5, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...world premiere of Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Wadjda

In this first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman, much is revealed about the reality of life for women there via its story of a 10-year-old girl who wants a bicycle.

"...among other things, to shed the freedoms of their childhood for the proprieties of Islamic womanhood. More than anything,..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What Is This?

"..."And then I'm pretty influenced still by my childhood, weird stuff like Disney cartoons -- just cartoons in..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

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April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...adorable Ms. Tweetie Pie aunts who raised him from childhood are poisoning the neighborhood's less fortunate with elderberry wine,..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

The Good Shepherd

Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.

"...of us commoners. Despite successfully creating the illusion of forbidden glimpses, The Good Shepherd slogs through most of its..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Summer Movie Events

"...Jules and Jim: 7:20 The 400 Blows: 9:35 7/8 Forbidden Planet: 7:15 First Men in the Moon: 9:25 7/9..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Summer Film Events

"...Jules and Jim: 7:20 The 400 Blows: 9:35 7/8 Forbidden Planet: 7:15 First Men in the Moon: 9:25 7/9..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and more

"...D: Erin Lee Carr Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Review: Rapper Billy Woods Has the Most Intense Lyrics at an Extreme Music Festival

His lines read like a poetry book bound in human flesh

"...a track built upon vivid family scenes of his childhood in Zimbabwe, the vehemence he exhibits on the mic..."

May 14, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Let Me Paint You a Picture

Movies were made to be shared

"...television during a sleepover. I'd loved the film from childhood and grew up hearing the magnificent Broadway musical version..."

May 20, 2011 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Fall Film Previews

September

"...for a man. And there's the rub: Witches are forbidden true love. The story is based on the novel..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

Huge lineup includes new docs on St. Vincent, Ozzy, Zappa

"...mosque while his daughter hides her passion for a forbidden dance, uncovering a shocking family secret. Cast: Faran Tahir,..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Luke suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend to help him cope. Charismatic and full..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Open Letter to Sharon Doubiago

The reason I can't read Sharon Doubiago's book is that I, like she, was shaped by incest and rape

"...parents who hurt me also deeply loved me. Our childhoods, though very different, are more alike than not. And..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

To Make a Long Story Short

"...For those privy to the details of Stephen Bruton's childhood, this newfound jazz approach probably isn't much of a..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Burgers, Burgers Everywhere

The Chronicle Guide to Hamburgers in Austin

"...or openly declared passion, there's no secret that our childhood favorite remains a Perfect American Meal -- a juicy,..."

June 20, 1997 Food Feature

Fantastic Fest Returns to Celebrate Itself

Global genre gathering announces streaming lineup

"...Kimo Stamboel Indonesia, 2019, North American Premiere, 99 min Childhood friends Hanif, Jefri, and Anton take their families on..."

Sept. 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Different Stages' Gliders

Rita Anderson's domestic drama sets one family's frictions against the backdrop of the Apollo 11 mission

"...cousin Christine – also 13 but still clinging to childhood – it's a whole crop of teen forbidden fruit:..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Review by Robert Faires

White Sands: Experiences From the Outside World

by Geoff Dyer

"...Dyer, who is 58, to have read it during childhood...."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Feature by W. A. Brenner

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...min D: Gerard Johnstone Forced to return to her childhood on house arrest, Kylie discovers that there are more..."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

IBIZ Districts: Voting local with holiday dollars

Keep Austin weird by shopping locally

"...toys, gizmos, trinkets, and candy that give grownups a second-childhood thrill. Affordable stocking stuffers (also available from their online..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom

Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level

"..."You couldn't have asked for a better childhood," smiles Hughes Jr. "It was the perfect nuclear family,..."

June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

Death Row Inmates' Sentences Overturned

Supremes overturn death sentences of three Texas inmates, sending them back to state courts and calling into question the death sentences of dozens of other inmates

"...to mitigating evidence – such as a history of childhood abuse or mental illness – that could have affected..."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Off the Radar, On the Gaydar Shows

‘Gay Place Xtra’ reviews of Dreadful Sorry, Zoe Lewis, the Gossip, and the Eagles of Death Metal

"...childhood, secret worlds, and wandering love. Bright-eyed,..."

March 17, 2006 Features Feature

Dress Suits to Hire

Winding up the Rude Mechanicals' Throws Like a Girl series, Holly Hughes' 'lesbian noir' 'Dress Suits to Hire' chills and excites in calculated disturbances

"...shimmering dress she changes into while recounting a muddy childhood full of spit and nasty talk. Drag within drag...."

April 22, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

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