City Hall Firestorm: Still Burning?

Minority contracting could be the meat of dispute between city manager and Hispanic leaders

"...what transpired has left us feeling bewildered, disappointed and quite frankly feeling disrespected." The group's letter to council members adds,..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Lookout

The Lookout, an odd caper story, marks Scott Frank’s directorial debut after years of working as a screenwriter on movies like Get Shorty and Out of Sight.

"...Directed by: Scott Frank. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher,..."

March 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Safe Cracking

Longtime screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank on The Lookout

"...Scott Frank's The Lookout isn't a film about brain injuries. It's..."

March 30, 2007 Screens Feature by Darcie Stevens

Lookout!

The Lookout premieres at the Paramount.

"...the least talented person associated with it," said Scott Frank at the premier of The Lookout . It's the..."

March 10, 2007 SXSW Post by Wells Dunbar

Nichols Execution: Another Texas death row travesty

Prosecutorial misconduct includes hiding crucial witness

"...On the morning of Oct. 13, 1980, 19-year-old Joseph Nichols and 24-year-old Willie Ray Williams entered Joseph's Delicatessen..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

SXSW 07: Update No. 1 of Approximately 450

Announcements

"...written and directed by Out of Sight screenwriter Scott Frank and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Matthew Goode, and..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Feature

It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special, Starring the Fonz

Rob Nash's It's a Wonderful Life, 70s Christmas Special, Starring the Fonz is a masterful melding of Seventies television and Frank Capra's film, but unless one has studied either subject in depth, the meeting proves perplexing

"...Christmas, and one is that everyone is familiar with Frank Capra's holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. But I'm..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...Episode 18, "House Arrest." Hawkeye can't leave his tent (Frank's black eye), so movie night crams into "the Swamp."..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

OoBer Alles

A guide to the troupes of the 2006 Out of Bounds Improv Festival (aka OoB V)

"...The Frank Mills: Formerly called Tight, an ensemble of Chicago and..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...Directed by: Frank Coraci. Starring: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cream of the Crop

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Frank Benge, Holes Before Bedtime..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Print

'Screenwriters' Masterclass'

"...code-cracking, or a paint-by-numbers schematic in the key of Joseph Campbell's "Call to Adventure" and "Magic Elixir," will find..."

April 28, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!

"...performances (in movies such as The Diary of Anne Frank, for which she won her first Oscar, and The..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...bitchy. Fasten your seat belts! Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, it won six Oscars, including Best Picture,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune

Robert Schenkkan's 'The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune' eases us back into that long-ago world of screwball comedy and serves up some new fun

"...an alley cat. And in the labored talk of Joseph Cheatham's malaprop-prone thug who's trying to better himself by..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Good Night, and Good Luck

Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow's confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

"...David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, George Clooney and Dianne Reeves. Director..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

The true source of terror is our own ill-begotten war

"...Less prominent in the Times report was the frank conclusion by the British Joint Terrorist Analysis Center that..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

On the Road to the Right Recipe

Austin chefs tour area farms

"...where he helps adapt varietals for each area. Darrell Joseph of Bella Verdi Farms was there to chat about..."

July 15, 2005 Food Feature by MM Pack

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Frank Benge, Pericles, Prince of Tyre..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art

"...writer Bill Finger created Batman, and several decades later Frank Miller reimagined him and re-created comic-book storytelling at the..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...imagine what kind of "catechetical damage control" the Rev. Frank Sabatte refers to in his recent letter ["Postmarks," March..."

April 2, 2004 Column

Critics Poll

Chronicle critics size up 2003

"...Gray: Dixie Chicks, Frank Erwin Center..."

Jan. 2, 2004 Music Feature

Texas in the Title

"...Elvis.13 "Texas Me," Sir Douglas Quintet Songwriters: Doug Sahm, Frank Morin, John Perez, Augie Meyers Year Released: 1969 Highest..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Naked City

Headlines

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

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June 27, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines

June 20, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Arts Stalwarts

Twelve of Austin's cultural heroes will be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame at the 2003 Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony, and here is an introduction to them and some of their significant contributions to the local arts scene.

"...the Historic Landmarks Commission. He received the Sue and Frank McBee Visionary Award from the Heritage Society of Austin..."

May 30, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...into the Walk of Fame in Lubbock, I mentioned Frank Sinatra's comment about Dean Martin. "He was not my..."

April 4, 2003 Column

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...1962, saw David Lean's British-American Lawrence of Arabia, John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate and Birdman of Alcatraz, Sidney Lumet's..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

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