Top 10 Festival Films of 2021 You Haven't Seen Yet

From retro horror to COVID survival, the best of the fests

"...• Hellbender (Screened at Fantastic Fest) The Adams family showed that zero budget filmmaking is no restriction..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Amistad

"...abolitionists turn to an advocate (Hopkins, as former President John Quincy Adams) who dares raise the ultimate issues of..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

News Ticker: August 9

All the news that's fit to blog

"...adventure, Rick Perry makes a catty remark, and Cathie Adams prepares for end times. Catastrophe is on the News..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: December 20

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...Bethlehem, Martin Ssempa sees you when you’re sleeping, and John Paulk hurries round the chimney tonight. Today’s AggreGAYtor sleeps..."

Dec. 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Carole's Lips to God's Ear

The comptroller backs down on threat to de-religion-ize the Unitarians

"..."hardcore atheists." The church boasts as early members Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and as far as..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Road Shows

June

"...TUE 9 John Adams Quartet, John Fremgen Quartet, Speakeasy..."

June 5, 1998 Music Feature

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...latest in the V/H/S/ anthology series, V/H/S/85; and the Adams family (Hellbender, '21) get supernatural again with Where the..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Journey

Settling peace in Northern Ireland?

"...Starring: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens, Freddie Highmore, John Hurt and Ian Beattie...."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Orange County

"...Directed by: Jake Kasdan. Starring: Lily Tomlin, Leslie Mann, John Lithgow, Catherine O'Hara, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk and Colin..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The End

End times musical doesn't go far enough

"...selection, gone for a full modern operatic endeavor, called John Adams or Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell, and said,..."

Dec. 13, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Won’t Catch Max Richter Sleeping

A 60-minute edit of the 8-hour Sleep? Do tell!

"...whose music has tremendous impact. Hans Abrahamsen, Meredith Monk, John Adams, and George Crumb are others I’m very fond..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Music Post by Christina Garcia

SXSW Releases Final Artist List

Ryan Adams, Lil Yachty, Neko Case, and 184 more

"...music lineup comes into focus. Enduring enfant terrible Ryan Adams, mumble-rap superstar Lil Yachty, and alt-country queen Neko Case..."

March 4, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Baroness Turns Mohawk Outside In

Georgian metallurgists tease upcoming fourth LP Purple

"...indoors, the metal survivors began humbly enough, guitarist Pete Adams stating, “We’re gonna play a little music.”..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Music Post by Michael Toland

Back to a Shadow in the Night

Collected works of Jonathan Cott takes music criticism into deep territories

"...into focus best when interviewing composers Harry Partch and John Adams, conductor Pierre Boulez and pianist Glenn Gould, or..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Michael Toland

The Spirit – and Spirits – of '76

Mr. Smarty Pants knows America's alcohol history

"...our Founding Fathers also enjoyed a glass or two. "John Adams began his days with a draft of hard..."

July 5, 2013 Food Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Ivan Vaughan introduced John Lennon and Paul McCartney at a church festival on..."

Nov. 23, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

I Am Love

Tilda Swinton brings a haunting mix of ethereality and carnal gravitas to this fearlessly melodramatic Italian movie, which she also co-produced.

"...Saux (Swimming Pool) to the throbbing, atavistic score by John Adams. It's not silly or, at least, rarely so,..."

July 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Victory Gardens Redux

A Resurgence of Urban Agriculture

"...grounds. Early presidents had to fund their own households; John Adams planted the first garden in 1800. Thomas Jefferson..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Hightower Lowdown

The Bushes suddenly discover women's rights in Afghanistan, tear up the Bill of Rights, and let pesticide companies test their poisons on human beings.

"...Afghans, they dragged the constitutional genius of Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and other founders into the back rooms and..."

Dec. 7, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

Postscripts

The latest publishing deals that Texas authors have made concern murders both fictional and real.

"...Book Festival, Nov. 15-18. So is David McCullough (Truman, John Adams), the man with the enviable ability to spark..."

July 27, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

Sliding Toward Gomorrah

"...Dear Editor, John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a..."

Jan. 22, 2020 Postmarks

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...Having already unleashed two waves, including Rian Johnson's eagerly-awaited murder-mystery Knives Out and Taika Waititi's anti-bigotry comedy..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future

Corporations are not people

"...created by a shift in consciousness, as recalled by John Adams in an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson: "What..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

The Revolution Doesn't Need To Be Violent, but It Has To Happen

"...in this country ["Page Two,” July 24]. During the John Adams administration in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and..."

July 24, 2009 Postmarks

Letters @ 3AM

The author offers notes for a poem that tells how the America of our hearts is a forgotten country.

"...Melville and Whitman were born in 1819, the year John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson: "Is liberty a word..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

All the tumult, all the culture, all the relentless historical brouhaha, has not changed the irreducible loneliness that haunts us.

"...When Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were writing each other the..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Live Shots

"...Danny Barnes conducts the banjo workshop. photograph by John Carrico Nary a cumulo nor nimbus spotted this bright..."

April 18, 1997 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Mambo John Treanor dies, but Austin jazz lives!

"...went out announcing the death of longtime-Austin musician "Mambo" John Treanor. As was well-documented in a recent Chronicle feature..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Austin Opera Probes the Power and Perils of Connection With The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

The local company launches a new collaborative production for the nation

"...and conducted by Timothy Myers, this new production brings John Moore back to the titular role (which he previously..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...horrendous war. And I grew up on the movies, John Wayne and Audie Murphy – those kinds of mythologies..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

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