Further Reflections

SXSW Film Festival

"...Beach superficially resembles any number of recent Gen-X "friends" movies, it distinguishes itself repeatedly in vivid, arresting moments of..."

March 21, 1997 Screens Feature

Art is a put-up-or-

"...Which leaves a list of movies and TV shows -- forms we use mainly to..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Column

Scanlines

"...the mold of Roman Polanski or Alfred Hitchcock. Both movies are dripping with visual style and moody atmosphere, and..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Arts Feature

Scanlines

"...the mold of Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock. Both movies are dripping with visual style and moody atmosphere, and..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Arts Feature

Slime and Screams: Producer Matt Manjourides on the New Street Trash

The splatter punk sequel gets its Austin premiere

"...sequel retain that stomach-sloshing rainbow. “There’s a lot of movies that have red spray everywhere,” Manjourides said, “but we..."

May 23, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Record Store Day, Formula 1, Dyke March, and More Event Recommendations

Your weekend is spoken for

"...The greatest lie about the movies is that you can’t make a great film without..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Summers of Youth: Director Atsuko Ishizuka Says Goodbye, Don Glees!

The anime artist creates a new tale of adolescence and loss

"...things I often watch are western TV series and movies but almost never anything in animation outside of my..."

Feb. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2021 Awards Short Lists

The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nominations

"...wrangled nine nods, but faces stiff competition from two movies that scored eight nominations each: Denis Villeneuve's space epic..."

Jan. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chad Holt, Austin's Last Provocateur

The Total Badass left his mark on the city's underground

"...the things Chad wrote about – music, sports, drugs, movies, and generally audacious exploits – he specifically excelled at..."

Oct. 18, 2019 Screens Feature by Kevin Curtin

Mark Duplass: Brothers, Netflix, Respect, and Kindness

Austin's most famous filmmaking siblings return

"...writing about us, and I'm making a ton of movies, so at least they're bringing attention to us. I..."

May 9, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ATX Television Fest: Fargo Music Panel

Not surprising: Jeff Tweedy hates the Eagles

"...that I wanted covers of songs from Coen brothers movies,” said Hawley. “So we started reaching out to artists..."

June 14, 2016 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

Mark Duplass Is a Creep

Found footage gets arty on Netflix

"...than your average film." By contrast, he said, "Horror movies tend to focus on that less than your average..."

July 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lily Tomlin, Citizen of Austin

The comedian on our town, Ann Richards, and getting hitched

"...you some time. Maybe we can go to the movies sometime, and I'll have three washcloths in my purse...."

Feb. 27, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

How I Got Hitched

Marc Savlov on how Hitchcock was a family affair

"...Hitchcock parodies, the latter featuring endless stills from his movies...."

Oct. 15, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Take Three

Texas film incentives don't always carry sufficient funding

"...make it quicker and cheaper and easier to make movies in Austin."..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...you, until tonight I consulted your paper for restaurants, movies, and ideas for outings. However, I just lost every..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Column

Now Streaming in Austin: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

The scary sequel shot in the Statesman

"...• Hulu (Link) • iTunes (Link) • Sling (Link)..."

April 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...the improbabilities of any of the more familiar Christmas movies that we ritually rewatch in this season every year...."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Tobe Hooper, R.I.P.

Remembering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director

"...Indeed, it was a commercially cannier Hooper who reinvigorated..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Do You Accept The Invitation?

Director Karyn Kusama on cults and dinner parties

"...and compromise that comes with those great big studio movies. The issue for them was always just wanting to..."

July 26, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: The Club

Home release roundup time

"...Speaking of cults: Lifetime original movies have become a guarantee of abysmal quality and inept..."

May 21, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

From the Vaults: Harry Dean Stanton – Partly Musician

The actor partly reveals himself in song

"...has peered out at us from more than 200 movies and vintage TV shows. It’s a face the camera..."

Sept. 28, 2013 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

MC5 The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Reissues

"...Best of the MC5 (Rhino) Nostalgic books and TV movies have inundated the current generation with you-had-to-be-there visions of..."

May 19, 2000 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Booze, Bad Guys, and Bamboozlement

Analyzing the Stereotype of Detectives and the Bottle

"...left the realm of the lowly scrivener. We makin' movies -- TV movies -- now: the cinema of the..."

April 25, 1997 Books Feature by Tom Aiken

How Dan Brown Created Neo-Noir Your Lucky Day

Director and his star and composer on the twisty thriller

"...Rodriguez. The duo asked filmmakers to contribute trailers for movies that never existed (although, since then, three of them..."

Nov. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

There are stars, and then there is Nicolas Cage

"...as important to Cage's career as those more noted movies. They're the ones that have paid the bills, and..."

March 23, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Keeping Up With the Satans

For Halloween, one South Austin yard becomes an infernal delight

"..."I'm also fascinated with horror movies. They go together," he says...."

Oct. 27, 2017 Arts Feature by Rose L. Thayer

Katy Perry's Licking Stick

The teen dream diva gives tween sexploitation a peppermint twist.

"...The oddly named California Dreams Tour (perhaps the Candyland..."

Aug. 3, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

All in the Delivery

Penn Jillette on 'The Aristocrats'

"...a worse actor; he did a couple of good movies, and we pretend he's a good actor, whereas Bruce..."

Aug. 26, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

... In With the New

More on Upgrades for PCs

"...main current application for DVD is playing digital-quality, full-length movies...."

Aug. 21, 1998 Screens Feature by John Avignone

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