How Fugitive Pieces Became Fugitive Dreams

Jason Neulander takes the trip from stage to screen for his feature debut

"...Hyde Park Theatre to mount the Austin premiere of Fugitive Pieces, a play by Caridad Svich about a pair..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fugitive Dreams Rides the Rails to Your Screen

Jason Neulander's American fable is available on VOD now

"...Finally, the two-decade-plus journey of Jason Neulander's debut feature Fugitive Dreams is complete as the modern American fable has..."

Jan. 12, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

AFF Review: Fugitive Dreams

Haunting and unorthodox road trip drifts with its protagonists

"...The unorthodox Fugitive Dreams taps into the wounded psyches of two drifters..."

Oct. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Steve Davis

In Production: Riding the Rails With Jason Neulander’s Upcoming Feature, Fugitive Dreams

“It’s a road movie about two homeless people trying to survive in middle America”

"...on camera with his debut feature as a director, Fugitive Dreams. It's a bitterly cold day at the Austin..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

More Places at the Table

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

"...Fugitive Pieces, Salvage Vanguard Theater..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 2002 Austin Critics Table Awards

On Monday, June 3, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

"...productions of Big Love by the Rude Mechs and Fugitive Pieces and Tilt Angel by Salvage Vanguard Theater, and..."

June 7, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Festival Films of 2020 You Haven't Seen Yet

The best of the fests from Austin and beyond

"...unique, fascinating voice should guarantee a proper release. 3) Fugitive Dreams..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rush Hour 3

It's The Bourne Ultimatum's evil twin, relying, as it repeatedly does, on tired, cookie-cutter, cliché action set-pieces.

"...inspired comedic performance in Rush Hour 3 comes from director-cum-fugitive Roman Polanski, whose turn as the head of the..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fugitive Pieces

The Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces is a nowhere road reminiscent of the Tom Waits milieu, with vagabonds hopping trains to anywhere other than where they are now. But while it's not for everyone, it's worth the journey.

"...Fugitive Pieces: The Long Side of the Tracks Hyde Park..."

March 1, 2002 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...3) Fugitive Dreams: Another directorial debut, with Jason Neulander directing Caridad..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Taken 3

Liam Neeson's back in action.

"...easy comparison to the still-crackerjack thrills of 1993’s The Fugitive, with Forest Whitaker’s dogged detective Dotzler standing in for..."

Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

A Perfect Murder

"...best: Anglo-Saxon, urban, and upper class. Director Davis (The Fugitive) knows the genre and nearly succeeds at creating a..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Austin Film Festival Adds Nine Days and Welcomes the WWE's Brothers of Destruction

New Winston Duke/Zazie Beets movie as opening night film

"...taking an old script from stage to screen in Fugitive Dreams..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Films For the First Wave of Austin Film Festival

Fugitive Dreams, Horton Foote doc in first wave

"...institution Jason Neulander (The Intergalactic Nemesis) and adapted from Fugitive Pieces, a play by Caridad Svich that Neulander directed..."

Aug. 27, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Drive, He Said

In its 13th year, Jason Neulander shifts Salvage Vanguard Theater into overdrive

"...with 13 tons of railroad gravel for Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces and Graham Reynolds and Karen Hartman create the..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Top 10 Onstage Works of Wonder in 2002

Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires delivers his list of the Top 10 most memorable productions in the performing arts for 2002.

"...Fugitive Pieces (Salvage Vanguard Theater), for its bold landscape (a..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

More Than Just Kiln Time

Ishmael Soto passes the torch to a younger generation

"...by the Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces back in 2002...."

Feb. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Salvage Vanguard Theater: Neulander ends his run

After 13 years of running Salvage Vanguard Theater, Artistic Director Jason Neulander is moving on

"...it was staging edgy new dramas like Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces or retro sci-fi spoofs like The Intergalactic Nemesis,..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Does an Artist Get a Passport?

Two Austin playwrights join dozens of writers from across the hemisphere to 'dream the Americas'

"...know Svich's work from Salvage Vanguard Theater productions of Fugitive Pieces in 2002 and Thrush last fall. She is..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Feature

Culture Flash!

Still time left to get some free theatre, laurels for historian Oscar Brockett and director Don Toner, and a new baby for the first couple of Salvage Vanguard Theater

"...Manor Rd. The world premiere of Thrush, written by Fugitive Pieces author Caridad Svich and directed by company member..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Decade on the Vanguard

No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!

"...Adam Sultan Moment, and the Transgressors cover songs from Fugitive Pieces, Altamont Now, MotherBone, The Cry Pitch Carrolls, and..."

March 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

The Blanton Museum of Art gets a cool million for its new building, Austin Museum of Art gets a new director of development to raise money for its new building, and a whole lotta Austin Artists get nominations for the 2001-02 Critics Table Awards.

"...respectively), Salvage Vanguard Theater's dramas Tilt Angel (9) and Fugitive Pieces (8), and Austin Lyric Opera's production of A..."

May 24, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Four Austin Films to Watch in 2020

From cowboy horror to songs to save your life

"...can read our Austin Film Festival review right here. Fugitive Dreams..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

There's Peter, Never Mind the Wolf

The Golden Hornet Project turns Prokofiev

"...performance by modern musicians. We're talking here about Prokofiev's Fugitive Visions, which will first be played in their entirety,..."

Jan. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...his body in a pattern that looked like interlocking pieces of a jigsaw puzzle – and his temperature was..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...tightly structured narrative of Andrew Davis' last film The Fugitive is definitely absent from Steal Big, Steal Little, his..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...maniacs from Saturday morning television. Keeve's self-conscious stylistics (random pieces of film leader, for instance) grow a little tiresome,..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Temple of Angels, a DJ Chicken George benefit, a Soap Creek Saloon reunion, and more recommended shows

"...rundown of his inspirational Texas music pals: "Victor Gutierrez (Impalers/Fugitive), Mike Sharp (Hatred Surge), Cole Tucker (TOA), all of..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Bringing Real-World Trauma to Action Blockbuster Angel Has Fallen

Ric Roman Waugh flies on broken wings

"...and London Has Fallen were just sprints between action set-pieces, Angel Has Fallen looks at the intergenerational trauma of..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

'Justified' Recap: 'Truth and Consequences'

Handling snakes and secrets can be dangerous

"...her an offer which she righteously rejects as “thirty pieces of silver.” He counters, suggesting she think of it..."

Jan. 23, 2013 Screens Post by Virginia B. Wood

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