L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman

The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame

"...Kit Carson was an outlaw. This didn't mean he was..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Trailblazer Reaches End of Road

Texas filmmaker L.M. Kit Carson has passed away

"...in Dallas of actor, director, producer, and screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson has arrived. Carson possessed a great cinematic spirit..."

Oct. 21, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips & Beyond: November Events Roundup

It’s time for chili cook-offs, festivals, and all sorts of November fun

"...a porch running its length on the sunny side. Kit Carson bought the house a block off the square..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Gazing at the Texas Film Awards Through a Crystal Ball

The Texas Film Awards celebrate the state's best filmmaking

"...Curtis, Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Evan Welch, and L.M. Kit Carson. The awards to Welch and Carson are being..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Flam: Local Screens News

Mr. Kaplan closes Cine Las Americas, Ernie Cline scores big, and more

"...for appearances to receive Dallas Star Awards, and L.M. Kit Carson will be honored posthumously. His son Hunter Carson..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hopped-Up Hopper

AFS screens rare 1970 Dennis Hopper doc The American Dreamer

"...Photojournalist Lawrence Schiller and actor/screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson convinced Hopper to let them shoot a documentary..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Launching Bottle Rocket

Sparks Over Tinseltown

"...of the University of Texas at Austin. Screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson, a family friend, eventually got ahold of the..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Getting Their Due

The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde); actor, writer, and producer Kit Carson (Paris, Texas, Breathless, Perfume); and Academy Award-winning director..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

20x2

Monday night's participants in SXSW Interactive's 20x2 event offered hilarious, provocative, and simply odd ideas about what is and is not real.

"...answers defied not only expectations but logic. Film producer Kit Carson screened a one-minute, 50-second short about the evolution..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by David Garza

New Season Begins Marking The Territory

"...the devoted practice of shrubbery adornment; "Direction Man" by Kit Carson (Texas, 1995), a ground-zero art exercise in which..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Arts Feature

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Mono/Acid Mothers Temple

A pair of Japanese guitar storms

"...Saturday night, amidst the choking dust storm that was Carson Creek Ranch, two Tokyo-born combines generated enough fire and..."

May 4, 2014 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Texas Film Awards Add to Lineup

Presenters, emcee, musical guests, and another honoree added

"...Film Awards inductees Tommy Lee Jones, Bonnie Curtis, L.M. Kit Carson, and Guillermo del Toro, who will receive an..."

March 2, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Luke Wilson, Tommy Lee Jones to Recieve Texas Film Awards

Hollywood heavyweights, indie icons, and an honorary Texan lauded

"...There will also be a posthumous induction for L.M. Kit Carson, who died last year at the age of..."

Jan. 7, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Land of 1,000 Dances

Sundance Film Festival 1997

"...out the submitted tapes for viewing. A daily soup kitchen also provided nourishment for those slumming their way through..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...What did John Pershing, Kit Carson, and Billy the Kid have in common? At..."

April 25, 2025 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

New Year's Adjacent Events for the Week Ahead

Crafts, comedy, and more

"...the delicate pen of cinematic hall-of-famer and co-screenwriter L.M. Kit Carson that grounds this 1985 tragic odyssey as a..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Glen Powell to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame

Actor to be honored ahead of Austin premiere of Hit Man

"...Lee Jones, and Robin Wright, as well as writers (Kit Carson), producers (Bonnie Curtis), and executives (Michael De Luca),..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips & Beyond: September Events Roundup

Catch up on news from around Texas and travel destinations for fall

"...month before the seminal music festival kicks off in Kit Carson Park in Taos, N.M.: Michael Hearne’s Big Barn..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Bulgarian Chainsaw Massacre

David Blue Garcia proves you can take Leatherface out of Texas in the new Netflix horror Texas Chainsaw Massacre

"...Screenplay by Kit Carson..."

Feb. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

We Have an Issue: Why Austin?

Scratching our heads over the University of Austin, and celebrating the spirit of creativity and curiousity already alive in our city

"...trip to a Taos museum celebrating the legendary frontiersman Kit Carson...."

Nov. 12, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Day Trips & Beyond: Pecos National Historic Site

Travel tips for the Land of Enchantment

"...south of Albuquerque at Fort Craig, N.M., where Col. Kit Carson and a ragtag army of volunteers and Union..."

Oct. 31, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Bringing It All Back Home

Texas Film Awards adds Boyhood to roster of honorees

"...Guillermo del Toro, Honorary Texan, Bonnie Curtis, and L.M. Kit Carson (posthumous)...."

Jan. 21, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

See Reverse Side for Title: Part I

If English first-wavers had trouble getting ahold of American roots music, Americans themselves weren't much better off, piecemealing together the foundations of today's national scene

"...Says So Himself," a piece in Esquire by L.M. Kit Carson with a photograph by Diane Arbus. David Felton..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

CQ

"...Depardieu, Billy Zane, Elodie Bouchez, Angela Lindvall and L.M. Kit Carson. CQ, the debut feature by Strokes music videographer..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

But Seriously, Folks

CQ's Roman Coppola

"..."You know, it's funny. A friend of mine, Kit Carson, who's in the movie, and who has been..."

March 15, 2002 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Celebrity Call Sheet

"...(Troma Films); Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show); L.M. Kit Carson (producer, Bottle Rocket); Jeff Dowd (legendary producers' rep);..."

March 8, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

March 8, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Mark Miks and Murder in Small Town X, festival season upon us, and pre-production on The Life of David Gale.

"...and his own short film "Muddy Fork," with L.M. "Kit" Carson. The show, which places 10 "real" people in..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Wolfen

Director Michael Wadleigh's only narrative effort is a terrific post-George Romero modernist horror film about ancient spirits, deadly animals, and the nightmare landscape of the modern urban city.

"...(1968). He followed this by shooting Jim McBride and Kit Carson's notorious David Holzman's Diary (1968) -- once a..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Review by Louis Black

Boone's Lick: A Novel

"...Cecil family of Boone's Lick, Missouri (the home of Kit Carson, who does not appear here). Fifteen-year-old Shay, whose..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Review by Mark Busby

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