Experimental Response Cinema Rises to the Surface

Avant-gardians of Austin’s underground films

"...else that's newer" than Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, or Kenneth Anger "was a crapshoot." Stark says, "Sometimes we end..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

Page Two: May the Circle Be Unbroken

Exploitation film's family tree

"...week, cooking beef stroganoff in his shocking red pajamas. Kenneth Anger, Paul Bartel, Jonathan Demme visiting...."

Feb. 26, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Out in Public

OUTsider returns with Sex in Public, and we're ready to voyeur

"...visual inspiration from Mortville of John Waters' Desperate Living, Kenneth Anger’s early gay erotica films, David Lynch films, Pee-wee's..."

Feb. 17, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Ezra Edwards

DVD Watch: Berberian Sound Studio

Analog audio horror that will send a chill through your ears

"...However, Strickland is an heir to great experimenters like Kenneth Anger and Peter Greenaway, and his narrative is purposefully..."

Dec. 10, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Eye on the Underground

Avant-garde pioneer Jack Smith

"...kids to get them out of their hair. Like Kenneth Anger, Smith maintained a brave vision of another America,..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Taking a Stand on Shorts

No mere calling card or stepping stone, the short film is enjoying a renaissance

"...Immigrant," from Chuck Jones' Wile E. Coyote plummeting to Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising," the short film is, was, and..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

What's That on Your Blog? Fred Schneider, Part 2

One part of the B-52's/Superions front man was not enough.

"...AC: Kenneth Anger...."

Nov. 5, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Gay New York: Jonathan Horowitz at PS1

Andy's next installment from NYC.

"...PS1 also held a Kenneth Anger retrospective, and while I love and admire the..."

July 26, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Gay New York: Sappho at the Met

Andy gets lesbianic in The Big City.

"...gaze! It's just positively lezbotronic. There's more to come: Kenneth Anger, Gay Ice Cream, Rocky Horror, Fred Halsted, Queer..."

July 23, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

You Call It Madness

Sheet music

"...such crooner arcana, but Kaye knows his onions. Think Kenneth Anger's blasphemous Hollywood homage, Hollywood Babylon. Likewise, Kaye, in..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Review by Kate X Messer

The Need for Sleaze

Bill Landis will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Feb. 23 to introduce two films and talk about his new book, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square.

"...as those that were. Larry Buchanan (Poor White Trash), Kenneth Anger (Lucifer Rising), Andy Milligan (The Rats Are Coming!..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Deconstructing Film

The Hideout hosts a retrospective of experimental filmmaker Aaron Valdéz's work.

"...the American avant-garde film tradition (Harry Smith, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger), Valdéz became far more interested in the essence..."

July 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus

Short Cuts

Austin institutions: Hippies. The bats. Kelso. Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe? Rumor has it the two River City regulars have signed on for The Alamo, the not-yet-greenlit, big-budget remake tentatively set to film just outside Austin.

"...video/text, and assorted other avant-gardisms. Along with Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, and Bruce Conner, Varela -- currently an assistant..."

May 24, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Pieces of Time

The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.

"...has been whispered about for decades: It's there in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, though it was never discussed by..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charting America

Filmmaker James Benning typifies the avant-garde tradition and will be on hand to present his film, Los, as part of the Austin Film Society's series, "Expanding Cinema: Fifty Years of Avant-Garde Cinema."

"...the broken-down, snowbound panorama of Cleveland in Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise...."

July 13, 2001 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

The Territory Schedule

"...This split-screen documentary, a work-in-progress, captures the mind of Kenneth Anger and the making of his avant-garde classic, Scorpio..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

"...includes fascinating interview material with Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Kenneth Anger, Nicolas Roeg, Cathy Moriarty, and Barbara Steele. The..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Old Hollywood Tales

"...the Bosoms going, either! That famous cover shot from Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon of Mansfield spilling out of her..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

In Person

"...recent string of appearances by notables such as filmmaker Kenneth Anger, you'd do well to keep it in mind...."

April 10, 1998 Books Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Elephant Parts

"...and midnight; Friday sees Rick Koster at 10:15am, filmmaker Kenneth Anger at 11am, and Annyland at noon; Saturday on..."

March 20, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Shortcuts

"...The Lead Shoes by Sidney Peterson; and Fireworks, young Kenneth Anger's seminal expression of gay iconography. Future screenings include..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Appearing in October

"...Oct. 31 Kenneth Anger, tentative, Fringeware..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Books Feature

How to Get an Education in Film

Austin Film Society Projections

"...screenings were constant, irregular, and eclectic -- everything from Kenneth Anger to Robert Bresson, Vincente Minnelli to Michael Snow,..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Screens Feature

SXSW Film Conference and Festival '98 Further Reflections

"...with all sorts of emotions: blame, hope, joy, futility, anger, and inequity. A pretty good arsenal for a movie...."

March 27, 1998 Screens Feature

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...in Jerry Maguire, Debbie Reynolds in Albert Brooks' Mother, Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet, Jack Lemmon and James Garner in..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World , every MCU film reviewed

"...Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Tom..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

“I Want Peace, but I Want Justice First”

Austinites protested against police brutality. Police responded with brutal force.

"...police. As the Chronicle went to press, protests and dangerous encounters have continued, but tensions have eased somewhat as..."

June 5, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Courtside: From Meurer to Earle

"...have signed on to challenge 3rd Court Chief Justice Kenneth Law: In the Dem primary, former Austin Bar president..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Boom Town

The Company's production of Boom Town, a stage thriller by film actor Jeff Daniels concerning economic development and marital infidelity, may hit the audience over the head with themes familiar from Hollywood potboilers, but unlike most movies of that kind it leaves its audience with a memorable bang.

"...to the playwright's cinematic experience. Blunt Stu (the excellent Kenneth Bradley) states his position in the first scene of..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Arts Review by Rob Curran

Deep in the Art

How In the West Became Deep in the Heart (of Texas)

"...who reacted to the photos with a mixture of anger and disappointment at what they perceived to be a..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

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