Off-Centered Film Fest Days 2-3: Beer, Bullets, Bullington

Updating the Off-Centered Film Fest

"...Ahem. Speaking of expanding waistlines, as Henry Fonda's sublimely taciturn villain Frank says, "How can you..."

April 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Event Menu

March 27-April 5

"...Preston Sturges' classic zany comedy The Lady Eve, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. Each team will present five..."

March 28, 2008 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Now I'm a 'Believer'

'The Believer' gets pervy at the movies

"...Inside are feature-length pieces (Devin McKinney's impassioned case that Henry Fonda should've played the obsessive Scottie in Hitchcock's Vertigo,..."

March 20, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats

These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them

"...funniest "service comedies" ever made. With a crew including Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and, as the quintessential schemer Ensign..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...at first looked liked lava erupting the rock, while Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale matched wits on the screen...."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...tries to take and then falls for clueless heir Henry Fonda. He finds out and turns on her, so..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

My Favorite Year

In an extraordinary season of four premieres, playwright Robert Schenkkan brings UT, his old school, a new screwball comedy

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

From the Source

"...Eve (1941) D, scr: Preston Sturges; with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda...."

Nov. 4, 2005 Arts Feature

Talk of the College Town

'The New Yorker' on tour in Austin

"...comedy classic The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, which will be followed by commentary by Lane...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bell, Book, and Candle

The comic skill of the actors in OnStage Theatre Company's revival of Bell, Book, and Candle makes magic

"...the same cloth as a young Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda. Complicating their affair are Gillian's brother Nicky, played..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Discus Maximus

New and nifty dvds

"...buttresses Barbara Stanwyck's command performance as the reptile in Henry Fonda's ophidian Garden of Eden with a revealing commentary..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.

"...like Eddie Bracken and makes even a straight-arrow like Henry Fonda look like a pratfall prince. And never let..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Desert Island Films, Part II

Louis Black continues his ongoing list of "desert island" videos with films by Preston Sturges, Quentin Tarantino, and John Ford

"...classic moments.Fort ApacheD: John Ford (1948); with John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, John Agar, Ward Bond,..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Screens Review by Louis Black

The Man With Susan's Plan

"...Gloria Swanson, Groucho Marx, Abbott and Costello, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Tony Curtis, Steve McQueen, Bob Redford ... it..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

A Potpourri of Pages

On the Bookshelf

"...McGilligan gathers endless testimony from everyone who loathed Lang. (Henry Fonda, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, etc. etc. etc. etc....)...."

Nov. 21, 1997 Books Review

Readers Poll

"...Mirabelle, Gumbo'sBEST ORIGINAL RECIPEZ'Tejas GrillRUNNERS-UPVeggie Heaven, Castle Hill Cafe, Fonda San Miguel..."

May 12, 2000 Food Feature

Monkeybone

"...Directed by: Henry Selick. Starring: John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Megan Mullally, Dave..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...Directed by Dennis Hopper. Produced by Peter Fonda. Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern...."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Boundaries

Take a pleasant road trip with Christopher Plummer up the PCH

"...MacDougall, Christopher Lloyd, Kristen Schaal, Bobby Cannavale and Peter Fonda...."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

In Memory of Dennis Hopper

'A walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction'

"...– Peter Fonda reminiscing about the first two days of shooting for..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...(B) Katherine Anne Porter and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry); (C) Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy, and Cabeza de Vaca;..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Almereyda; with Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Jared Harris, Karl Geary, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch. From..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...of all Altman's venomous belittlement of his characters. Buck Henry's smart script, which was adapted from Joyce Maynard's novel,..."

Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature

Readers Poll

"...HONORABLE MENTIONThai Kitchen, Veggie HeavenInterior MexicanFonda San MiguelRUNNERS-UPCurra's Grill, Manuel's..."

May 25, 2001 Food Feature

Food Top Tens 1996: A Year of Good Tastes

Top Ten Bites of 1996

"...2. Fonda San Miguel's the Sunday brunch..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...Almereyda; with Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Jared Harris, Karl Geary, Elina Lowensohn, David Lynch. From..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...D: Mervyn LeRoy; with Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Warden, William Hopper...."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...of all Altman's venomous belittlement of his characters. Buck Henry's smart script, which was adapted from Joyce Maynard's novel,..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

SXSW Announces Film Lineup

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

"...Brown (Bill Pullman) has ridden with Eddie Johnson (Peter Fonda) his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie,..."

Jan. 31, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...Last Days of Disco, Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, Henry Jaglom's Déjà Vu, Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, Tom DiCillo's..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

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