SXSW Film Gets Latest Apatow, Snowpiercer Premiere

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

"...disorder. Cast: Jessica Barden, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael McKean, Henry Winkler, Rosa Salazar, Odeya Rush, Lewis Pullman, Devon Bostick,..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Chronicle Recommends: Crime and No Punishment

For Crime Month, our favorite films about getting away with it

"...When scam artist Jean (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces Charles (Henry Fonda), a straight-laced heir to an ale empire, she..."

July 9, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Unbelievable Summers at the Paramount

The most unforgettable moments from this year’s classics of cinema

"...Time in the WestD: Sergio Leone; with Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson (1968)..."

May 18, 2018 Screens Feature by Chronicle staff

SXSW Unleashes Massive Film List

High-concept horror A Quiet Place to open fest

"...a juggalo. Cast: Taylor Schilling, Bryn Vale, Brian Tyree Henry, Jessie Ennis, Blair Beeken, Matt Walsh, Allison Tolman, Eric..."

Jan. 31, 2018 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...movie for you! Cinematic titans Peter O’Toole (as King Henry II) and Katherine Hepburn (as his estranged wife Eleanor..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

Chronicle Recommends: Fictional Presidents of Film and TV

Take a break from #45 with these fictional Commanders in Chief

"...depiction of how nuclear brinksmanship might actually play out. Henry Fonda, as always projecting an innate decency, plays the..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Doors Guitarist Robby Krieger Rallies

ROT thunderdome enlists some “Roadhouse Blues”

"...a video out of it. It was at the Henry Fonda Theatre in L.A., and we had the bass..."

June 9, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Subverting the Code

New AFS series showcases Barbara Stanwyck at her most sly and seductive

"...con artist, Jean, who accidentally falls for her mark, Henry Fonda's Charles Pike, a nerdy snake scholar and heir..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Lady Be Good

Austin Film Society presents pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck

"...Ball of Fire, the professional scam artist who hooks Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges' peerless The Lady Eve...."

Aug. 2, 2013 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Emperor

Tommy Lee Jones is Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Matthew Fox his adviser in this historical drama set in postwar Japan in which the general must decide the fate of the Japanese emperor.

"...colors, shades, and tones. Fox sounds like a young Henry Fonda, without trying to do a faithful imitation; Jones..."

March 8, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Letters at 3AM: The Lincolns of Hollywood

It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality

"...Lincoln (1939). Sappy as only Ford can be sappy, Henry Fonda's humble, saintly, silly Lincoln is saved, in performance,..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

What EVOO Can Do for You

Texas olive oil companies strive to educate consumers

"...honored at the Con' Olio Olive Oil dinner at Fonda San Miguel (see Food blog, Aug. 26). In the..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Kate Thornberry

Everything Went Black: Rewriting Sight & Sound's Top Ten

What, no Polanski?

"...Sergio Leone, a harmonica, and Henry Fonda's ice-blue eyes and killer smile equals choreographed mayhem..."

Aug. 29, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

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

Jules Buck Jones' 'Everglades'

This fertile art book gets you lost in Florida's primordial river of grass

"...naturalists as Jon Krakauer, John Muir, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Henry David Thoreau, John James Audubon, and, most importantly, fellow..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

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

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

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

Confessions From the King of Fuzz

Cult soundtrack composer Davie Allan comes to the Alamo Ritz

"...soundtrack varies wildly, especially between high- and low-budget films. Henry Mancini, one of Allan's heroes, may have worked closely..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

30 Days of Night

This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...and dishes out spontaneous ultraviolence like Slobodan Milosevic meeting Henry Fonda's Frank in the devil's cut of Once Upon..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...Hawkeye (missing the scene): What, what, what, what? Henry: Cornel Wilde just kissed Gene Tierney. Hawkeye: On the..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

Yours, Mine & Ours

This supersized family comedy makes The Brady Bunch look like an example of prudent family planning and sophisticated humor.

"...supersized family comedy, itself a remake of the 1968 Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball comedy. It won’t spoil your..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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

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