Festival Snapshots

The Toronto International Film Festival

"...having traveled so far only to be watching old movies on broadcast TV. Then I remember... remember seeing Apocalypse..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Scene With Cine Las Americas

The festival director talks about finding international emerging voices and programming in the age of piracy

"...the fundamental role of a festival that screens international movies has shifted in an age when most popular films,..."

April 12, 2013 Screens Feature by Dan Solomon

Fine Print

A closer look at Texas film incentives

"...1) No movies that imply Texans commit acts of violence with chain..."

July 27, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

God Willing

Two disparate cultures come together in Austin's Ojalá.

"...similar image deficit. Common knowledge of Mexico and things Mexican are defined through a prism of vintage stereotypes and..."

April 13, 2001 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Austin’s Best Breweries of 2023, Power-Ranked

Top of the Hops VIII, baby!

"...Hill Country doesn’t get much better than a Paz Mexican Lager and top-end chicken flautas at sunset… Central District..."

Oct. 10, 2023 Food Post by Eric Puga

Nyad

Biopic of controversial record-setting swimmer just skims the surface

"...Longoria used that history to craft an undeniably charming Mexican American success story. Nyad offers shades of that same..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Blue Beetle

Latest DCEU flick can't cram the Chicane experience into superhero duds

"...Balancing the possibilities of throwing specific, Mexican American cultural references into a big-budget spectacular with all..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

Austin Filmmaker David Blue Garcia Goes Back to the Border for Tejano

Guns, drugs, and laughs in this microbudget thriller

"...Ever since the Red Scare, movies and lawmakers have been like oil and water, and..."

March 29, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cine Las Americas Explores the Global Faces of Latino and Indigenous Cinema

Not just the border

"...(AFS Cinema, MASS Gallery, and the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center), Nomad Bar will screen a selection..."

April 27, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...makes its triumphant return to Fantastic Fest with two movies that will rot your libido in the best way...."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Chill Places to Cool You Off

The summer heat is your enemy. Let these locales be your refuge.

"...your whistle with one of Austin’s signature cocktails, the Mexican martini. The Cedar Door claims to be the originators..."

June 13, 2016 Columns Post by Tucker Whatley

The Flesh and the Faith of 'We Are What We Are'

Director Jim Mickle on remakes, religion, and America's dark history

"...When the proposal came to remake the Mexican genre festival favorite (also known as Somos lo Que..."

Oct. 12, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

¡Pachanga Playback!

Rain or shine, Pachanga Fest played out all ‘corazon’

"...“I feel like I’m at a Mexican Chippendales review,” I admitted to a colleague who was..."

May 13, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Saborcito

Latin melting pot fuses into Pachanga Fest

"...Ob-La-Da" picked on a jumbo guitarrón. It was New Mexican musician Lorenzo Martinez who bet that interpreting the universal..."

May 10, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Food and a Movie

Strategic local restaurant suggestions to enhance your SXSW Film Festival schedule

"...boozy hot chocolate and coffee drinks perfect for an after-the-movies dessert outing. The high-end sister restaurant Driskill Grill (604..."

March 11, 2011 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

They Went West

Back in the saddle with a faded genre's favorite stars

"...covering the transition from silent film to sound, from B-movies and serials to event films and series TV...."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...while about stinky testicles and funny names for porno movies. Now for the serious part – getting people to..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

Letters @ 3AM

Globalization isn't only something that's happening to our economy: Globalization is happening to us – to our bodies, our families, and our psyches

"...Americans were – they looked like people in the movies and on TV, who, with rare exceptions like Sidney..."

April 25, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

All 'Round Republic Square

A new context of major civic buildings may yet make a people place of our historic downtown park

"...it in 2007 will be the expanded Austin Music Hall.Mexicanos, Viva Republic Park!..."

Sept. 1, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

More Than a Festival, Less Than a Movement

At Slamdance, tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope

"...From the Other Side, Austinite Heather Courtney's documentary about Mexican families left behind by fathers' and brothers' emigration to..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Food-o-File

Everything is still happening in October!

"...Guadalupe) on Saturday mornings... The next Eat, Drink, Watch Movies is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 8, at the Alamo..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

American Movie

What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.

"..."Movies are daydreams we share in public," F.X. Feeney writes..."

April 25, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Food-o-File

Virginia B. Wood's on her way to the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Miss., but she still finds time to take you out to dinner and a movie in this week's "Food-o-File."

"...Eat, Drink, Watch Movies..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Paradise

Ten years after Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo finds his "Paradise."

"...Nuggets box set. A photo book, full of dark-eyed Mexican women and defiant Mexican men, in San Antonio 50..."

June 28, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Y Tu Mamá También

Boys, filled with testoterone and joints, will be boys.

"...way regular people -- that is, not people in movies -- have sex. Y Tu Mamá También marks a..."

April 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

La Pasión Según Berenice

"...moves in with her money-lending godmother in a provincial Mexican town. The two only leave the house on Sundays..."

Feb. 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tortilla Soup

In Tortilla Soup (based on Ang Lee's wonderful Chinese film Eat Drink Man Woman), Hector Elizondo plays the family patriarch, a retired master chef and a longtime widower, who lives with his three grown daughters.

"...that transposes Lee's story about a Taiwanese family to Mexican-American Los Angeles. It's amazing how similar the key elements..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shivering the Timbers

The Dirigo Group's 'Gypsy Chain' Speaks for the Trees

"...Chain, which opens this week at the Center for Mexican-American Cultural Arts -- is the first wholly original work..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Postmarks

Benefits of Frankenfoods

"...slice of Americana -- they just happen to feature Mexican-Americans. But there are hundreds of stories to tell relating..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column

Postmarks

Don't Cry for Rainey

"...get along better if we were properly warned about movies like Relax. Five minutes into the movie we left...."

July 23, 1999 Column

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