30 Breakout Music Acts to See in Austin This Week

Your guide to SXSW's buzziest artists, both official and unofficial

"...Named for the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, this young Belfast noise punk quartet’s atomic quality is..."

March 11, 2024 SXSW Post by Rachel Rascoe

AFF Review: First We Bombed New Mexico

Manhattan Project survivors documentary is a call to action

"...dirtiest of bombs – packed with more plutonium that Hiroshima and Nagasaki – there was no need to evacuate...."

Oct. 30, 2023 Screens Post by Oscar Rodriguez

Into the Woods With New Austin Animation When You Get to the Forest

Austin animator Eric Power takes a strange and beautiful adventure in new feature When You Get to the Forest

"...making its international debut in August at the inaugural Hiroshima Animation Season. It's not just a thematic change from..."

July 8, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Labyrinth of Cinema

House director’s love letter to movies, peace, and history

"...like the final days of Japan’s Edo period and Hiroshima days before the atom bomb terrorized its inhabitants. The..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Until the End of the World

Writing is not what I live for, it’s how I live

"...age? That question has been urgent since Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Climate Change has made it more so. [inset-1-right]..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Arts Feature by Michael Ventura

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...(Anna Bergmann), Akiko Takakura survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima – in the midst of total destruction she finds..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...Premiere, 126 min. In the neon-soaked streets of 1988 Hiroshima, experienced detective Ogami Shogo is forced to partner with..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Memoir of War

WWII literary adaptation lacks the novel's spark and insight

"...Duras, the novelist (The Lover), philosopher, screenwriter (Oscar-nominated for Hiroshima Mon Amour), and director (played here by Thierry). Tellingly,..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mile 22

Wahlberg and company get bloody as a CIA black ops team

"...something) are globally located, which have the power of Hiroshima AND Nagasaki combined. We know this because Silva has..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Chronicle Recommends: The Many Faces of Frankenstein

Celebrating the cinematic legacy of Mary Shelley's creation

"...splitting atoms and all that jazz. Nazis, Nick Adams, Hiroshima horror, and a giant, feral “Frankenstein” – vs. Gojira..."

Aug. 2, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

The Luv Doc: Free Range Kids

On the ominous meaning of "kid-friendly"

"...Think of it this way: If a grownass man..."

May 4, 2018 Column by The Luv Doc

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.

"...freshly haunted by the 20th-century horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. The more literal-minded God’s Not Dead franchise of faith-based..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

“Katy Horan and Teruko Nimura: Residual” at ICOSA

In their joint show, the two artists use paper crafts as a medium for exploring how traces of the past disrupt the present

"...mentioned sculpture. A young victim of America's bombing of Hiroshima who died 10 years after the bombing at the..."

March 16, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Here We Go Yet Again

Michael Ventura revisits his "Letters at 3am" Columbine column

"...the young airmen who incinerated the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ... the rural boys who slaughtered nearly..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Chronolog Post by Michael Ventura

Playback: Death by David Vincent

Hanging with Morbid Angel singer-turned-country outlaw David Vincent and other dark tales of the live music capital

"...after Hurricane Harvey hit last month. "It looked like Hiroshima."..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Your Weekend in Film

What major releases and one-off screenings are worth your theatre time

"...film, a bright white flash from the direction of Hiroshima. But director Sunao Katabuchi leavens this multi-award-winning portrait of..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

In This Corner of the World

The life of a Japanese girl during wartime

"...film, a bright white flash from the direction of Hiroshima. But director Katabuchi (Mai Mai Miracle) leavens this multi-award-winning..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: In Memory

The dead we remember, and the lessons we still need to learn

"...of Memorial Day with the visit of Obama to Hiroshima, the first sitting U.S. president to make that pilgrimage...."

June 3, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Forward Compatible

Silicon Cowboys details how Compaq took down IBM

"...crimes, war crimes in Uganda, and the bombing of Hiroshima – Cohen was also ready for a fun narrative...."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Soccer Watch

"...played this week in Japan. Argentina's River Plate beat Hiroshima in one semifinal on Wednesday; the other (Barcelona-Guangzhou) is..."

Dec. 18, 2015 Sports Column by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Live Shot: Hitchhiker/Perfume

Hitchhiker bounces, but Perfume caramelizes brains

"...up for J-Pop sensation Perfume. To be fair, the Hiroshima-bred electro-pop trio brought along a high-caliber production befitting a..."

March 18, 2015 Music Post by Greg Beets

Tuesday SXSW Music Picks & Sleepers

"...international headliners, the electro outfit formed as schoolmates at Hiroshima's Actors School, relocating to the capital city in 2003...."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature

Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By

"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column

"...from the Army. Eleven weeks before, the U.S. incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki...."

Nov. 14, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Trailer Park: SXSW Film Day 5

What's that stomping sound?

"...movie is an atomic era nightmare that put the post-Hiroshima psyche of Japan within a sci fi frame. The..."

March 11, 2014 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December

Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve

"...year the world learned of Nazi death camps and Hiroshima – the year Lowell looked into the manger and..."

Dec. 13, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Made You Look

Austin Film Society hosts impressionist Jean-Gabriel Périot

"...Take "200,000 Phantoms," which flashes picture after picture of Hiroshima from different vantage points between 1914 and 2006. On..."

April 16, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Amour

Death is part of love’s bargain, a fact filmmaker Michael Haneke lays bare.

"...Trintignant (A Man and a Woman) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon amour). Playing an elderly couple, Georges and Anne,..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Five Graphic Novel Recommendations

No powers: Just ordinary people as fucked up as most of us – more or less.

"...Los Alamos, "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds," Hiroshima. Even if you're already roughly familiar with the people..."

June 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cannes You Dig It?

Vincent Van Horn doesn't hold back the tears

"...acting legends Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour). The movie is slow and it all..."

May 25, 2012 Screens Post by Vincent Van Horn

Who Plays the Bongos While Fully Dressed?

Richard Feynman, that's who

"...opinions, one way or another, about the bombing of Hiroshima, and who prefer their pop-culture heroes to be anti-authoritarian..."

Sept. 13, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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