Top 10 (+1) Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2012

In 2012, dance memorably explored profound topics, and classical embraced Charlie Brown and George Washington

"...2) 'LIGHT/THE HOLOCAUST & HUMANITY PROJECT' (Ballet Austin)/'THE MATERIALITY OF IMPERMANENCE' (Sharon..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'Creativity in the Face of Death: The Contemporary Resonance of Terezín'

UT symposium honors and ponders art created in the Nazi concentration camp

"...Documentary images of Holocaust survivors and contemporary Terezín by Loli Kantor, a Fort..."

Oct. 5, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Metallurgy

"...like Seventies hitmakers the Sweet, only heavier, "Heavy Metal Holocaust" ignites Year of the Metal Tiger: "Ozzy Osbourne's said..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The 'Chronicle' Chronicles

Josh Trank talks YouTube, superheroes and Holocaust footage

"...However, Trank explained that his big inspirations were the Holocaust documentaries of his father Richard and YouTube frat fights...."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Names of Love

This French romantic comedy is a gratifyingly grown-up kind of love story.

"...is French-Algerian, and Arthur is the son of a Holocaust survivor who has pointedly swept her Jewishness under the..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trollhunter

Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.

"...Witch Project and Ruggero Deodato's cringe- and gag-reflex-inducing Cannibal Holocaust, although here the heightened sense of the extremely weird..."

June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Serbian Film

Notorious for its disturbing content, this film has been slightly edited for its American theatrical debut.

"...a dizzying, sickening rush, not unlike Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, Gaspar Noé's Irréversible, or Michael Haneke's Funny Games, minus..."

May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shalom, Y'all

Previewing the Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...runs April 10-16. Highlights include a special Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) service and screening of Assaf Bernstein's The..."

April 9, 2010 Screens Feature

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, April 8-15

"...HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL honors victims with a candle-lighting ceremony and reading..."

April 9, 2010 News Feature

Gifts of the Magi

A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts

"...a community begin to affect your work? Stephen, Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project was such a highlight in your..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: Auschwitz Up the Block

To retain our humanity, we remember the unthinkable

"...A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust (The Lyons Press), a clear and unsentimental proof of..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Nov. 5-12

"...HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR GERDA WEISSMANN KLEIN talks about her life and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature

Once Upon a War Story

Quentin Tarantino rewrites the spaghtetti western with a side of sour Krauts in Inglourious Basterds

"...AC: The Holocaust is so sacrosanct; you're treading into some tricky territory..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Writing 'The Reader'

Scripter David Hare on Germany's long reckoning with its past

"...screen, says it's more about the impact of the Holocaust on succeeding generations. "That is where the book's originality..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Kevin Kelly

Why's Everybody Always Picking On Him?

David Sedaris on nitpicky fact-checkers and spiders' thighs

"...because she said I was making fun of the Holocaust when I wrote about getting real estate envy at..."

June 27, 2008 Books Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Standard Operating Procedure

The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.

"...Leuchter, Jr., a study of the execution-device designer and Holocaust denier – a man in denial of his own..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...prisoner in the unit. The Counterfeiters differs from most Holocaust movies in that the emphasis is on the personal..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Rape of Europa

During WWII, works of art were moved, hidden, and plundered on a vast and often institutional scale, and this film documents the shaky process of reclamation.

"...fine art looted by the Nazis during Europe’s six-year holocaust that left 50 million people dead. When the Allies..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Conspirare Children's Choir: Birdsong for the holidays

Musical Director Nina Revering explains how a trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum helped connect birdsong with this festive time of year

"...until she and the choir members visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "I cannot share with you how absolutely..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Captivity

Captivity, wherein 24's Elisha Cuthbert is abducted and tortured, is the kind of film that gives torture porn a bad name; it's just soulless, hateful, and freakishly monotonous.

"...again. I've always been a huge genre fan (Cannibal Holocaust and Punishment Park are still my ideal drive-in double-bill),..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hostel: Part II

Roth has accomplished the near impossible: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to Hostel, one that supersedes the original's sadistic quotient, gore effects, and narrative subversiveness.

"...you see the cameoing horror director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) in such an – ahem – meaty role? Social..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice

The first of Vladimir Sorokin's novels to be translated into English; the author will be at BookPeople on Saturday

"...answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious" – is a..."

April 27, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Freedom Writers

Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.

"...“tolerance” to her African-American and Chicano students using the Holocaust as a model of oppression, I was constantly reminded..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cavite

This rocketing thriller that pits an unseen Filipino terrorist against an unwitting Filipino-American dupe is one of the purest examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project.

"...of cultural disassociation found in, say, Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust. Cavite isn't a horror film, per se – its..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ballet Austin

Before revving up the jackhammers to renovate its downtown dance center, Ballet Austin is inviting the public to go Dancin' in the District

"...and education efforts it conducted with last year's Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project. The company received the Audrey and..."

March 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...men send rockets out into space. I foresee a holocaust, an angel of death, descending to destroy the human..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events of 2005 That Engaged and Endure

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires lists his favorite performances of dance and classical music from 2005

"...5) Light: The Holocaust and Humanity Project (Ballet Austin) Without ever showing a..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Asking for It

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

"...Austin Chronicle: Your jokes about the Holocaust, AIDS, race, and 9/11 have serious shock value, but..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants

Jill Soloway takes no pains to appear politically correct or ponderously deep in talking about her life, which can be very refreshing. She makes it clear that she doesn't take herself terribly seriously, but at times she laughs at herself a bit too hard.

"...Soloway begins the chapter with the line "Here's the holocaust chapter I promised you" is an appropriately red flag,..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Books Review by Jess Sauer

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...San MarcosPeace Movement Caused HolocaustDear Editor,..."

May 27, 2005 Column

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