Into Great Silence

At once eerie, picaresque, and evocative, this is a daring and breathtakingly constructed documentary about the Carthusian monks of the French Alps, who have taken a vow of silence.

"...French Alps – who have taken a vow of silence that lasts as long as they do – is..."

April 27, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Silence

Two missionaries in feudal Japan are tested

"...whose spiritual journey is the subject of Martin Scorsese’s Silence, is certain that God hears the faithful’s prayers, but..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into the West

Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek's Cutoff

"...Kelly Reichardt's film begins. Actually, Meek's Cutoff opens in silence, or more accurately, with the sounds that become prominent..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Into The Black Hole at Other Worlds Austin

Director Gary Nelson on Disney's sci-fi epic, returning this weekend

"...the director of The Black Hole, Disney's 1979 push into the burgeoning space opera market opened up by Star..."

Dec. 7, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Into the 'Wild' and Back

Cheryl Strayed is having a hell of a year

"...on the Pacific Crest Trail. "Even with all this great stuff that's happened, I still have to maintain a..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature by Jessi Cape

115 Comics Walk Into a Bar ...

"...festival was scheduled to begin at 11am. I pulled into the club parking lot at 9:45am; the first time..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba is a remarkable marriage of technical experimentation, artistic innovation, radical storytelling, and left-wing politics

"...Cuban revolution, which had turned that tiny island nation into the symbol of communism's growing influence and the model..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Letters at 3AM

Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.

"...building that rose out of this bottom level high into the sky, the weight of it pressing down on..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Philadelphia

"...the filmmakers seem to have forgotten to tell a great and original story and, instead, relied on the more..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

M

Lang's unnerving tale of a deranged child-killer (with Lorre in a star-making turn) is a riveting example of Expressionist filmmaking.

"...Stein, Theodor Loos and Fritz Gnass. Arguably Fritz Lang's greatest cinematic achievement, this unnerving tale of deranged child-killer Hans..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dr. Robert Van Boven, the Whistleblower

Lakeway neurologist battles hospitals, officials, and the "culture of silence"

"...and he has been vindicated – but only after great personal trouble and cost in money, time, energy, and..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Hello I Must Be Going

The marvelous Melanie Lynskey, for once, gets the starring role in this movie about a woman who gets blindsided by divorce.

"...has moved back in with her parents after falling into a deep depression when her husband blindsids her with..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cairo Time

Patricia Clarkson gives a glorious performance in this film about a woman's unexpected discovery of love.

"...greet Juliette at the airport and get her settled into the hotel. While the problem keeps Mark detained for..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sense and Sensibility

The lively and funny screenplay adaptation of Jane Austen written by Emma Thompson, who also stars, was rewarded with an Oscar.

"...Amy Heckerling declared that her movie Clueless owes a great debt to Austen's Emma. Whether this cluster is mere..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Some Mother's Son

"...the Irish people’s dogged struggle for independence has flared into warfare and ghastly carnage. The ancient conflict’s poisoned black..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 22-28

"...and teacher Marianne Williamson, "Ego says, 'Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace.' Spirit says, 'Find your peace,..."

May 22, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Camp

"...available ears a barren stretch of raw and aching silence? Writer/director Graff, who had a part in last year’s..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saraband

Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.

"...in 1982 – is a pure distillation of the great director’s ongoing themes of the frailty of the human..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Conjuring 2

Semi-retired ghost hunters make a comeback in the second installment of James Wan's spooky series

"...on the man behind the edgy goregasm Saw, Dead Silence, and two Insidious films – know all too well..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: A Cheating Top 10

An introduction, then a list of lots of cool things, shoved into 10 slots, that are not necessarily related to 2008

"...many different things that I enjoyed this year, force-fitted into 10 slots. This is by no means complete (whatever..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Council Watch

The Bradley deal is out in the open but no one seems to have an opinion on it.

"...The silence surrounding the Bradley deal is becoming deafening. In this..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Page Two: The Immersion Method

Dream double bills and the great and simple pleasure of film viewing

"...There are good movies and there are great movies. To some, there are "movies" and then there..."

May 2, 2008 Column by Louis Black

That’s So Cool: Celebrating Bob Johnston

The late producer’s staggering output somehow excluded his own renown

"...fragments rather than wholes, beginning stories only to wander into a dozen tangents on his way to forgetting the..."

Aug. 20, 2015 Music Post by Louis Black

SXSW Interview: Margaret Brown

We're all connected through the Great Invisible

"...2010, causing the world's largest oil spill that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for over five months, it..."

March 10, 2014 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Uncover the Forgotten Wartime Heroism of Marcel Marceau in Resistance

Jesse Eisenberg and UT student-turned-filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz find strength in silence

"...smuggled hundreds of orphaned Jewish children across the border into Switzerland, using his art to help distract and calm..."

May 15, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Boy George’s New Life

Culture Club frontman relives the Seventies

"...singer of the Eighties, Boy George brought alternative lifestyles into homes around the globe via Culture Club MTV smashes..."

July 4, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Ups and Downs of Comedy

Hanging with the stand-ups for a look into the life

"...that I loved and watched on TV, that was great. Since it's such a small town, being able to..."

Dec. 31, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Page Two: We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident

Free speech: Do we have to spell it out for you? Plus, a farewell to a great American filmmaker.

"...love him tenderly when abruptly he takes Natalie Wood into his arms in the last reel of The Searchers?"..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Star Maps Hustle

Interview With Filmmaker Miguel Arteta

"...worn him down. "Are you kidding? he says. "It's great."..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Seeing the Invisible

Margaret Brown dives headfirst into the BP Gulf oil tragedy

"...Brown learned this firsthand while soliciting subjects for The Great Invisible. "Many ... settled [financially], signed nondisclosure agreements. There's..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

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