SXSW Film Review: Frame by Frame

Powerful doc about the vitalness of photojournalists

"...danger continue to ripple through the country's photography rebirth. Frame by Frame delicately inter-weaves the lives of four photojournalists,..."

March 17, 2015 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

Frame by Frame: The Art and Technique of Film Animation

"...Frame by Frame: The Art and Technique of Film Animation..."

April 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Stealing America: Vote by Vote

This documentary account of Election Day 2004 thinks it has the answer: conspiracy and treason, Republican-style.

"...Directed by: Dorothy Fadiman. Anyone whose loyalties lie on the left..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Murder by Numbers

"...Directed by: Barbet Schroeder. Starring: Chris Penn, Michael Pitt, Ryan Gosling,..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

JLG by JLG

"...Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard. The JLG of the title is film..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

Much like the title character Precious, this rough-hewn movie overcomes the unlikely odds for its success.

"...Directed by: Lee Daniels. Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"..."Arnold Newman: Masterclass" at the Harry Ransom Center. Curated by William Ewing for the Foundation for the Exhibition of..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Beyond the Frame

Curator Elizabeth Dunbar likes art that punches through the gallery walls

"...community. Their work can't be contained within a four-cornered frame. It punches through art's conventions and traditions to find..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese

Recounting of legendary Dylan tour is best when the details blur themselves

"...Directed by: Martin Scorsese...."

June 11, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Balm: New Paintings by Bradley Kerl

Painter Bradley Kerl leads us from inside to outside and beyond

"...dark room – a box surrounded in blackness, criss-crossed by silhouetted bars and a diamond grille metal covering. Looking..."

June 18, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Frame Job: Carson Brock

Former U18er steps into another league on new full-length

"...into the major leagues with his new LP, Finding Frames...."

March 26, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Frame of 'Reference'

"...I was flattened by the same kind of powerful voice, fresh arrangements, and..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Music Feature by Michael Chamy

El Nopalito

It's All in the Latitude

"...such thing as good food karma, this small white frame building has seen more than its share. For years,..."

March 10, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Hotrod Golgotha

In this collection, the Austin poet delivers a high octane paean to cars and all that makes them cool

"...that's alive with a monster V-8 that shakes your frame, rattles your bones, thunders under you, rumbles roars explodes...."

Jan. 1, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oklahoma City Caused by Reno's Crimes

"...Davidian complex, you'll see nothing remaining but a simple frame church and a field of trees, one for each..."

April 17, 2007 Postmarks

Council Member Jimmy Flannigan Harassed by Opponent’s Biker Friends

Confrontation between D6 CM and Wind Therapy Freedom Riders CEO caught on tape

"...calling us racist?" Rod­riguez asks in a video recorded by Flan­nigan. As Rodriguez shouts at Flannigan, Jacob Aronowitz, the..."

Nov. 27, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Struggling to Get by in Rome

The pure perfection and modern resonance of Bicycle Thieves lives on

"...Hollywood, where soulless studio exec Griffin Mill (slimily embodied by Tim Robbins) hits up a screening of Vittorio de..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Art City Austin Is More Fun Than Just Another Frame-Up

Annual extravaganza fills the Palmer and beyond with creativity

"...in beginning this post, as we’ve been unduly influenced by those Four Rocking Horses of the Apocalypse towering above..."

April 9, 2018 Arts Post by Memory Harker

FotoATX: "Austin Women by Austin Women" at the Elisabet Ney Museum

The five women showing photographs capture the beauty, passion, grace, and resilience of being a woman in Austin today

"...Austin women as both subject and artist. "Austin Women by Austin Women" explores what being a woman in modern..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

McMillan 'Traumatized' by Houston Cops

DiverseArts Culture Works founder / director travels to Houston due to a death in the family, and gets roughed up by police and arrested

"...that resulted in his beating and arrest. "I've worked side-by-side with him at many neighborhood meetings," said neighbor Valerie..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Cindy Widner

The Way They Get By

Spoon ladles up another winner

"...record should sound, but really, it's on a song by song basis...."

Aug. 23, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A New Album From That Guided By Voices Man?

Yes, and reviewed with a little hot Robert-on-Robert action.

"...near enough about Pollard, his solo work, his Guided By Voices material, to give the thing a decent review...."

Dec. 12, 2013 Music Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

As the Years Go Passing By

Inner Sanctum Records and the Armadillo – rock & roll, Austin-historical-style

"...had already been far too long, passed in a cubbyhole in a bookstore on the Drag with a newly..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Touched by Fire

For half a century, Ishmael Soto has used flame to transform copper, clay, and bronze into works of wonder

"...makes is not complete until it has been touched by fire...."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Paris by Net

Surfing to the City of Light

"...a compact Parisian named Marie. Marie pulled her under-five-foot frame up and stared daggers at the teenage tourists, rolled-up..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

By the Hand of the Father

Previewing Alejandro Escovedo's new autobiographical play, By the Hand of the Father.

"...the world of theatre for the first time. That By the Hand of the Father, which memorializes Escovedo's father..."

June 16, 2000 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Booth's Richard III by the Hidden Room Theatre

Beth Burns and company unearths a fascinating theatrical time capsule with this version of Shakespeare's tragedy

"...that John Wilkes Booth), discovered at the Ransom Center by curator Eric Colleary, director Beth Burns and her team..."

June 22, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf loads into the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Crow all appear, and the opening credits as soundtracked by Joe Ely’s “Hopes Up High” gets you singing from..."

March 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Balanchine, by the Muse

Working with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Ballet Austin gets in step with history

"...tights, gingerly begin to move together as if propelled by the forces of the sound. "Is this ballet?" some..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

His Shadow in the Frame

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Robert Frank Photographs" provides an excellent introduction to Frank's career from his early social documentary work to his introspective images of later decades, and shows him always striving in his images to reflect his deeply personal response to the world around him.

"...Tucker delved into the museum's collection of 300 photographs by Frank and selected more than 60 prints that trace..."

March 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Erina Duganne

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