Loving Highsmith

Documentary about the acclaimed American novelist explores her past loves

"...The image of Patricia Highsmith absorbed in the solitary act of creation, clack-clack-clacking on..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Patricia Highsmith

The crime writer's dark world is stranger than (literary) fiction

"...The decadelong revival of classic crime novelist Patricia Highsmith continues apace, with a film of The Two Faces..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Amy Gentry

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

Norton has reissued A Dog's Ransom and Little Tales of Misogyny from Patricia Highsmith, a Ft. Worth native whose disturbing brand of suspense could be "morbidly comic and surreal" or "traditional and believable," writes Tommi Ferguson.

"...Patricia Highsmith (1921-95), a Ft. Worth native who spent her writing..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Books Feature by Tommi Ferguson

The Talented Mr. Ripley

"...English Patient) is the second director to adapt Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, but his film bears..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Carol

Everything about this Fifties lesbian romance is sublime

"...for the screen from a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith, Carol began life as a book titled The Price..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Cry of the Owl

Based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, this mood-heavy film contemplates what happens to a stalker when the object of his obsession returns the favor.

"...This mood-heavy Canadian/German co-production, based on the 1962 Patricia Highsmith novel, contemplates what happens to a stalker when the..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Cry of the Owl

"...taken as their source material a novel by Patricia Highsmith (who also wrote the novel upon which Hitchcock's Strangers..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Talented Mr. Ripley

"...Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's book of the same name takes the best of..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Review by Barry Johnson

Style! Cine! Swashbuckling!

Sampling the latest DVD has to offer

"...era. The American Friend, from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, features Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley, a far cry..."

March 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Perfect Days

A toilet cleaner in Tokyo quietly goes about his days in this stirring Oscar nominated picture

"...Simone, and devouring books by William Faulkner and Patricia Highsmith...."

Feb. 16, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beware La Barracuda

A murder ballad comes to life in this Austin thriller

"...more from a position of great Texas writer Patricia Highsmith. We actually wrote the first draft at a residency..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Sheri Gallo's Long Campaign

Mapping a path to the Gallo's poll

"...her car windshields – "obviously for advertising purposes," Madelon Highsmith, who witnessed the infraction and contacted an election judge,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Titles

Lineup drops the latest from Todd Haynes and a Hank Williams biopic

"...and Kyle Chandler. The film is based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Price of Salt. Can an English actor..."

Aug. 19, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Films Go Better With Bluebonnets

The Hill Country Film Fest features cinema amid the wildflowers

"...will be represented among the shorts, including Lauren Pruitt's "Highsmith," a drama set in the Fifties; Scott Cobb's "The..."

April 24, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

July Is Crime Month

As summer heats up, the 'Chronicle' runs afoul of the law, in fiction and nonfiction

"...• Amy Gentry's appreciation of Fort Worth native Patricia Highsmith, the novelist who gave us such chilling works as..."

July 4, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Walgreens, what will you think of next? Plus, Hi.

"...recently welcomed a new member to their family. Tiny Highsmith Curcio Strickland (4.5 lbs.) bears the maiden names of..."

July 21, 2006 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

All Wrapped Up

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.

"...Snow Falling on Cedars, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, and plays by August Strindberg..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Swindle

"...the characters' intentions and motivations. Like the novelist Patricia Highsmith, whose material he adapted very successfully in The Cry..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Making Lists

"...a Texan!" -- Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Tunnel Vision

The New Waller Creek

"...on Waller Creek,' says the Sheraton's [general manager Jack] Highsmith, "and I think we're still about 100 consultants away."..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin's Waterloo

Taking a Walk along Waller

"...do along the creek," says Sheraton Austin manager Jack Highsmith, whose Sixth Street hotel (along with its twin, though..."

July 7, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Emerald Fennell's Saltburn to Open Austin Film Festival

Promising Young Woman followup leads first title drop

"...release on Nov. 24. Seemingly influenced by both Patricia Highsmith and E.M. Forster, Saltburn stars Barry Keoghan (Killing of..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Indoor Queers Club: LGBT-Boo!

Queer horror picks from your trusty Chronicle crypt keepers

"...a rec for Strangers on a Train, the Patricia Highsmith-penned thriller adapted by noted queer-subtext creator Alfred Hitchcock...."

Oct. 28, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Amy Gentry Is All the Rage in Her Third Novel, Bad Habits

The Austin author talks anger, solidarity, and grad school villainy

"...they have to happen in immediate sequence. Like Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels – which now everyone wants to write,..."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 11-17

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Boisterous Capricorn novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) once made the following New Year's Eve Toast:..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...An adaptation of The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (of The Talented Mr. Ripley fame), often credited as..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Women of Mystery

Investigating the latest "persons of interest" in Texas' literary crime scene

"...working the case of Steele's latest victim. Before Patricia Highsmith had ever written Ripley, Hughes had already taken readers..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Molly Odnitz

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 Films of 2015

"...Screenplay Carol (Phyllis Nagy, based on book by Patricia Highsmith), The Big Short (Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, based on..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015

"...Tóibín), Carol (Phyllis Nagy, based on book by Patricia Highsmith), The Big Short (Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, based on..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Lit-urday: The Fever

Megan Abbott novel outfits high schoolers in a fetching shade of noir

"...have flourished under the constraints of genre – Chandler, Highsmith, Le Carre, and Natsuo Kirino are some excellent examples..."

July 5, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp

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