Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Lauria, Tyler Bocock, Lea DeLaria, Sera Barbieri, Hersh Powers, Jonathan Bennett, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, James Grixoni..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...a limo at the bottom of a canal. Matt (Jonathan Bennett, best known as nice guy Aaron from Mean..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Forever Fest Hits Its Sophomore Year

Get your squee on Nov. 14-16

"...that beloved classic Mean Girls (quote-along style, natch), with Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Franzese, and Daniel DeSanto in attendance. Also..."

Oct. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

'Mean Girls': 10 Years On and Still Going Strong

That's so fetch

"...dance or any scene with the dreamy Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) with your über conservative mom; needless to say,..."

April 30, 2014 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Mean Girls

Clique comedy about teen groupthink lacks real bite.

"...Amy Poehler, Lacey Chabert, Ana Gasteyer, Amanda Seyfried and Jonathan Bennett. With a title like this, a script by..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Directors: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Producers: Jeremy Latcham, Brian Goldner,..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...not really directing it." We showed a cut to Jonathan Demme, we were in Lisbon...."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

'The NFL Beat': Bye Week Bros

Fantasy fill-in friends

"...very fantasy-relevant players such as Calvin Johnson, Jordy Nelson, Jonathan Dwyer, Rashard Mendenhall and Darren Sproles appearing very iffy..."

Nov. 3, 2012 Sports Post by Alex Dunlap

Dancing About Architecture

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.

"...programming, meaning Austin rock, explains K-NACK music director Drew Bennett. And this isn't just the co-opting of a name;..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Sxsw

"...you're gonna have to make some hard decisions: Tony Bennett, Junior Brown, and Peter Wolf at the Austin Music..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

After a Fashion

With 'Fashion Star' a wrap, even Your Style Avatar is poking around for some Summer Fun ...

"...masks in this fabricated fantasyland. I asked By Mojo's Jonathan Tieken how their mission differed from that of other..."

May 25, 2012 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Dancing About Architecture

That Was the Week That Was

"...in evidence as well. On the uplifting side, Tony Bennett stories abound; the crooner did a sketch of K-EYE's..."

March 21, 1997 Music Column

Pet Sematary Remake to Close SXSW Film

Midnighters, Festival Favorites, plus shorts all announced

"...Cast: Eddie Izzard, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Kevin Guthrie, Jonathan Aris, Alice Lowe, Samuel Bottomley, Viraj Juneja, Rian Gordon,..."

Feb. 6, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces 2015 Lineup

Circling the Thunderdome

"...The Sandwich Nazi (Canada) Director: Lewis Bennett Deli owner Salam Kahil is an art collector, a..."

Feb. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Show and Tell

Spring Previews 2000

"...Cohen; with Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Judah Domke, Jonathan Abrahams, Zorie Barber, Callie Thorne...."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrapped and Ready

"...D: Bennett Miller...."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

All Wrapped Up

Holiday Film Previews

"...D: Bill Bennett; with Frances O'Connor, Matt Day, Chris Haywood...."

Nov. 28, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Shotgun Blast of SXSW Film Programming

'Hobo,' Spike's 'Scenes From the Suburbs,' and more

"...A Naked Robotic Love Story Directors: Jesse Roesler & Jonathan Nowak Explores the challenges and delights found in sustaining..."

Feb. 10, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Rent

A Broadway-quality staging of the popular rock musical with energy to spare

"...show, and he does it with this hugely popular Jonathan Larson musical inspired by Puccini's opera La Bohème, but..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

City Theatre's solid staging gets an extra charge from Rachel McGinnis' Maggie

"...at times to see someone like Big Mama (Terri Bennett) go on and on about her love for her..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Naked City

Headlines

"...nagging scold -- and erstwhile Austinite -- William J. Bennett...."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Book Festival 2020: The Full Line-Up

All 150 authors announced for the 25th anniversary lit celebration

"...Gyasi, activist Erin Brockovich, NPR host Steve Innskeep, novelist Jonathan Lethem, poet Naomi Shihab Nye, economist Robert Reich, –..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Rules Don’t Apply

Beatty's Howard Hughes film is a frantic mess

"...Sheen, Candice Bergen, Annette Bening, Taissa Farmiga and Haley Bennett...."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saturday SXSW Picks

"...Bad Luck Jonathan12mid, Saxon Pub Keeping up with Jon Langford's multiple incarnations..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature

SXSW Announces Midnighters and Shorts

Henry Rollins, Jeremy Sisto join horror lineup

"..."Baby" Director: Samuel Aaron Bennett Naomi's got a problem. The vodka in the hotel..."

Feb. 10, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced

Boyhood, Kumiko earn multiple nods

"...Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole Boyhood Producers: Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland Love is Strange Producers:..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Texas Book Festival Announces Full Lineup

From R.L. Stine to Reza Aslan, 225-plus converge on the Capitol

"...Lansdale, The Thicket Starling Lawrence, The Thief of Words Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens Jeff Lindsay, Dexter's Final Cut: A..."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Another Round of Praise

Nominations for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Kristen Bennett, Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Oh, Give Me a Home

The 20th 'New American Talent' exhibition reveals a country struggling with isolation and power

"...Rocket Launch, an acrylic painting by Austin artist Jonathan Marshall, depicts a cloudy chem trail behind a rising..."

July 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Playing the Violin

Mr. Sinus Theater's Jerm Pollet is also a musician!

"...from da Bronx, who was later the subject of Bennett Miller's terrific cult documentary The Cruise. That pairing, the..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

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