It Came From Beyond

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

"...talk with the ample del Toro about his childhood, movies, and plans for the future. At the time, del..."

July 21, 2000 Screens Feature by Cary L. Roberts

That Obscure Stretch of a Master's Filmography

Cine las Americas presents Luis Buñuel en México

"...film scholars. Yet frequently overlooked or discounted is Buñuel's Mexican period, an interval that stretched from 1946 to 1961,..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...sons and daughters of both newly arrived immigrants and Mexican-American professional parents from every level of Austin's Latino community...."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

If You're a Viper

From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T

"...political side note to the 4:20 generation: During the Mexican Revolution of 1910, thousands of native Mexicans moved north..."

May 25, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Staccato Purr of CineFestival

Latino Filmmakers Explore the Middle Class

"...Retes' critically acclaimed Bienvenido/Welcome. Winner of four Arieles (the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar), this film-within-a-film tells the story..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Screens Feature

The Legend of La Llorona

The weeping woman has reason to cry in this flat supernatural horror

"...It’s a centuries-old Mexican folktale told by generations of parents to scare the..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Swimming in Summer Cinema

So many series, so little time

"...The big kahuna, the Paramount series features 125 movies, including many in 35mm, most nights from Memorial Day..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

'El Automóvil Gris': Making an old silent film speak today

Mexican theatre company Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes brings a silent film from Mexican cinema into the 21st century, using a 19th century Japanese performance technique

"...When some people think of silent movies, they think of something obsolete or only of interest..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

10 in Focus

Alma

"...(former Austinite Carmen Nogales) is a popular and successful Mexican soap opera star. Yet her obsession in life is..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...the last chief of the Comanches (Comanche Moon), a Mexican-American hero of the Texas revolution named Juan N. Seguin..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Stories, Operas, and Meet-Cutes: The Week in Arts

Brett Goldstein brings the laughs, Zach Theatre conjures a comet, and more arty events

"...Sure, there are plenty of movies like Groundhog Day, but how many movies actually take..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Arts Feature by Katherine McNevins

Short Cuts

"...the world's top festivals, hosting an impressive collection of movies from around the world which, in turn, attract an..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Imagined Mexico

A personal guide to three exhibits on Mexico through one bifurcated perspective

"...My father is Mexican. He was born in Xilitla, a speck tucked away..."

April 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Birdman director seems painfully aware of his own pretensions

"...his artistic vision and hardly ever actually like his movies. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths does..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Blessed Deliverance

The Borderland, Bud Shrake's Latest Tall Tale

"...for generations and had strewn the land with dead Mexicans and stolen hundreds of thousands of Mexican horses and..."

March 31, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

Animated pup adventure opens surprising doors for talks with your kids

"...Movies, like all stories, can help children process the world..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Marvel's Afrofuturist paradise goes to war with the world

"...that it's a bridging film back to the earlier movies and to the beloved Afrofuturist utopia of Wakanda, the..."

Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Wish List

Give 'Til It Helps, Part 2

"...Catered Mexican lunch for 40..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Features Feature

Beautiful Songs and Good, Heavy Sounds

"...There are people who remember when Sixth Street was Mexican. Before the calle ancho (I-35) appeared, and even some..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Spider Sculptures, Gore Feasts, and More Arts Events

Feed your art habit with these recommended events for the week

"...ourselves? Okay, most of us haven’t, but damn if movies don’t overrepresent this experience. This month, the cinematic-minded queer..."

March 22, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Sayles Talk

More on the making of 'Go for Sisters' from John Sayles

"...just across the border into Mexico but into the Mexican underworld, with human and drug traffickers, then, on top..."

Dec. 7, 2013 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...a childish toddle in the direction he intends his movies to take. "My next picture," he has promised his..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...as a temporary operation, with duties confined to the U.S.-Mexican border. As it now approaches its 10th birthday, JTF-6..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Off the Road and Hungry

Where Austin Musicians Eat When They Get Home

"...satisfies him. Both guys are big fans of local Mexican foods, too. "We like Güero's (1412 S. Congress, 447-7688)..."

March 20, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Postmarks

Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...town stereotyped to death in various TV shows and movies, and to date, I have never seen one that..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

The Last Laugh

Remembering the late underground comic Mitch Hedberg

"...old episode of Adult Swim's Dr. Katz or Home Movies featuring a Hedberg cameo. Wherever or however you first..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...from personal experience that when it comes to renting movies, like some Capra-esque sojourn to Shangri-La, getting there is..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...styles we grew up with – rock, blues, Spanish, Mexican – but we're not Tejano at all...."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Bud Shrake's Adventures in the Film Trade

'Midnight rambling, creative gambling': Louis Black's 1985 interview with Songwriter screenwriter Bud Shrake

"...legend himself. The storyteller –author of six novels, five movies, one play and who knows how many fiction and..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Louis Black

'Art Should Be Convulsive'

The Austin Film Society and SXSW celebrate the films of Mexican cinema giant Arturo Ripstein.

"...masculinity set Ripstein's work apart from the bulk of movies that were being produced in Mexico at that time...."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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