AAAFF 2022 Review: Hidden Letters

Documentary explores a secret Chinese language created by women

"...sisterhood and survival. Those secrets are finally translated in Hidden Letters, Violet Feng’s new documentary explores the history and..."

June 28, 2022 Screens Post by Mazzy Oliver Smallwood

Hidden Room Theatre's Houdini Speaks to the Living

In Houdini Speaks to the Living, Hidden Room Theatre resurrects two dead celebrities for a spirited battle

"...Terry and Robert Matney and the crafty crew of Hidden Room Theatre. And the speaking that's done, with Terry..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Letters at 3AM

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon asks whether we’re really living … and if not, why not?

"...the fifth time I saw Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Then, this sentence: Great art re-creates itself within..."

June 22, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.

"...watching a film that can do that. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (opening next week in Austin on January 12)..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

How to be and not to be.

"...the paragraphs seem to circle a single concern, a hidden depth -- as when m'lady and I, not long..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life

"...Tao te Ching: "Prosperity rests on disaster; disaster is hidden in prosperity." This is true of our prosperity, whether..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Death is not a separation, but a living presence.

"...die with all their selves, all their open and hidden aspects, rather than just the selves we tried carefully..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Auschwitz Up the Block

To retain our humanity, we remember the unthinkable

"...death. She never betrayed her daughter. Isadora kept herself hidden long after the shed grew quiet. When she emerged..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

Reality is cracked and alive; the one constant is change

"...tame by comparison (i.e., many-worlds theory, an observer-based universe, pilot-wave/hidden-variable universes, time as a complete illusion, etc.)...."

June 20, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters @ 3AM

A report from 2107: The decline and fall of the former United States of America

"...United States had a lot of luck – but hidden in that luck was the beginning of that society's..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great novel. The first great American novel of the 21st century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of creating a novel that is not a book but an organism. Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'

"...mass murderer that he kept in his closet – hidden so as not to frighten his dates (or not..."

March 4, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...junta kills. But ... the junta's a rumor tonight, hidden in stacks of unread print in my living room...."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Weapons of Mass Deception

"...the FBI, your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance -- and you have the super-snoop's dream:..."

Nov. 29, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.

"...destruction" in the guise of "conventional warfare," and has hidden this fact from its people and its soldiers...."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

You can't always be who you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you can be who you need.

"...... sentences that tell all while keeping a secret hidden in a syntax no grammarian could graph. Almost more..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...on the surface nevertheless keep making everything uglier, their hidden barbarity revealed in their results...."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Preparing for War With Europe

"...improbable. ICBM sites are major structures and cannot be hidden from orbiting eyes. If we could bomb targets in..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...too bright at that. His column about "America Ungoverned" ["Letters @ 3AM," Oct. 5] is nothing but a whine..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...too bright at that. His column about "America Ungoverned" ["Letters @ 3AM," Oct. 5] is nothing but a whine..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...I'm sure you are receiving hundreds of letters these days, but I thought I'd send you one..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

This Week's Waste of Time

The last 53 (of 303) contestants in the Independent Games Festival get played

"...your browser. Today all games with names starting with letters "T" through "Z" get the once over...."

Dec. 10, 2009 Screens Post by James Renovitch

A Hundred Years of Shadows

One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.

"...Something there is, hidden in Nature from the beginning, that wants to transform..."

March 7, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

The Keepers of Your Silence II

Letters at 3 AM

"...fear. The feminist movement has made previously forbidden or hidden behaviors both speakable and doable. The National Organization for..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Postmarks

Plan for People, Not Cars

"...CSC is getting for moving downtown, there is a hidden cost that will be paid by all automobilists. (Don't..."

March 26, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Last week's letters by Erick Kittelson and Shawn Pendley ["Postmarks," Aug. 8]..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

The Notorious Irving Klaw

My grandfather's photography studio made him rich and Bettie Page famous. It also made him into a target for Fifties censors. So, what has director Mary Harron made of him?

"...and cheery even in the Klaw stuff ... a hidden world of sexuality that we have discovered in the..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Rick Klaw

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of the recent attacks, I thumbed through the many "Letters at 3AM" columns I have carefully put away. One..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

Moving On

Misguided rape-revenge dramedy depends on Tomlin and Fonda's charm

"...Allie (Burns) confesses to Evelyn that she found love letters written by Evelyn to her mother, still kept after..."

March 17, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ready Player One

Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment

"...book and film are massive, absurd, and unapologetic love letters to Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties ephemera. The film is..."

March 30, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Life of Pi

This time Ang Lee's tiger is not crouching; this animal has its claws out and has only an adolescent boy for companionship – or vice versa.

"...roam through a free-ranging zoo in India as alphabet letters from the titles are subtly reshaped into the animals..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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