Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...this is -- you'll pardon the pun -- a killer serial. New prints of the 15-part, 1949 serial Batman..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Food-o-File

All the movies you can watch and all the food you can eat: Virginia B. Wood reveals the Eat, Drink, Watch Movies lineup for spring.

"...few weeks, always on Monday nights, always with good films and good food from some of Austin's best restaurants...."

April 18, 2003 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...a 100% smoke-free ordinance as "health fascists" and potential killers of live music in Austin. In his comments Mr...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

A Monster Bash

Austin Studios will host a free outdoor screening this Saturday evening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which, despite its singular title, also manages to cram in both Dracula and the Wolfman.

"...do (such as 1949's Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff). Of all the comedy-monster, mish-mashes, Meet Frankenstein..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

More festival fever.

"...Too Many Films, Not Enough Time Redux Dept.: If you're trying to..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

"...on TV. I highlight classic (and not so classic) films for a news station in Seattle and I often..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Column

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

"...David Bowie got nothing on Austin's institution of silent films scored and accompanied live by local bands. Alt.classical indie..."

March 15, 2002 Music Feature

Fandemonium!

Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.

"...fans is the subject of countless books, articles, and films. Television fans in particular are overwhelmingly labeled as the..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)

It's not high art, but Black Christmas is a spare, efficient fright flick.

"...helped inaugurate the conventions of the slasher subgenre. The killer's perspective is rendered with shaky handheld camerawork, his (or..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Screens Review

Contributors

Descriptions of the contributors to The Austin Chronicle 20th anniversary issue

"...as a unit production manager; his credits include such films as A Simple Plan and Road Trip...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Eye to Eye

David Byrne gets sincere

"...even as Byrne was busy with books, photography, directing films, drawing, et al. His inclusive approach to aesthetics: "Anything..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Music Feature by David Lynch

Double Down

Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn goof around and discuss the making of Made.

"...every successful comedy team, they are foils: Vince, the lady-killer/attention-deficit manchild, and Jon, the sensitive guy and superego. This..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...ADV Films..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

ALSO PLAYING

"...Janusz Kaminski has lensed some of the most acclaimed films of the last decade, including Schindler's List and Saving..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Screens Feature

American Psycho (Koch)

"...American Psycho(Koch) Like most contemporary soundtracks for period films, American Psycho is more intent on revisionism than accuracy...."

April 28, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

The Speed of Technology

SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival

"...Learn from the Music and New Media Revolution" and "Killer Applications for Broadband." The second seminar is especially appropriate,..."

March 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Ron Deutsch

Stop Making Sense

"...by many to be one of the best concert films of all time, and possibly the best (depending on..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

Pauline Kael Remembers Sam Peckinpah

Pauline Kael discusses the myths surrounding the work of Sam Peckinpah in this excerpt from the monograph that accompanies the Peckinpah retrospective sponsored by the Austin Film Society.

"...of Sam Peckinpah], and Paul Seydor [Peckinpah: The Western Films -- A Reconsideration]. Writers Max Evans [The Hi-Lo Country,..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

"...who sports the director's eternal shades, his heartbreaking, sometimes killer smile -- Sam propels his con artist from grave..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Kathleen Murphy

American Hot Wax

This neglected 1978 American rock & roll film is a historical invocation of legendary deejay Alan Freed's life and cultural impact.

"...sets American Hot Wax apart from many other rock films, like The Rose and The Doors, is the overwhelming..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Review by Louis Black

Scanlines

Five Minutes to Live

"...TNT, HBO, Hallmark, and Showtime. Gangster, biography, and detective films, as well, have flourished on cable, mimicking the Thirties-Fifties..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Feature

Short Cuts

"...not better remembered for some of his great early films, such as Crossfire and Cornered, and is best remembered..."

July 9, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...act. It wasn't until Love It to Death and Killer, however, both of which came out in 1971, that..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

Don't Blame the Movies

"...death of their family member (and not the actual killer)...."

May 28, 1999 Column

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...three biggest testosterone-fueled rockers, "Enuff," "Dead Letter," and "Hollywood Killer," actually had the roomful of weasels bobbing along, if..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Scanlines

Dream for an Insomniac

"...works, particularly Skye as the doe-eyed dreamer with a killer smile. In most areas, however, the unriveting Gen-X dialogue..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature

Roll 'Em

March

"...Sierra Nevadas in 1847 is stalked by a cannibalistic killer. This nourishing Hollywood fare is directed by Antonia Bird,..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Surfing Indra's Net

"...playlist being something beyond the familiar symphonies of the "Killer Bs," stuff like chamber music and the occasional aria...."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Robert Faires

The Wrong Cause

"...Doc Holliday, or Wild Bill Hickok. Those guys were mankillers, too, and they may have even been assholes, but..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Books Feature

1998 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund

"...The Tourist). While in Austin, the panelists presented their films to the community in three evening programs sponsored by..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Screens Feature

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