Millennium Actress

This Japanimation import is a sweeping romantic saga full of big, lush ideas.

"...effect that the passing of time has on it: Millennium Actress is nothing if not full of big, lush..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Upping the Animé

Satoshi Kon's 'Tokyo Godfathers' is social commentary transposed onto a toonscape: an interview

"...picking up the director's second feature -- the elegiac Millennium Actress -- for stateside distribution on the basis of..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Austin Film Society's Sublime Lines

Essential Cinema series: Japanese Animé

"...Millennium Actress, directed by Satoshi Kon in 2001, is a..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Sofia Resnick

Fantasia Review: Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist

An overdue tribute to one of the greats of animation

"...four features (1999's psycho-horror Perfect Blue, 2003's cinematic history Millennium Actress, 2004's heartwarming comedy Tokyo Godfathers, and his swan..."

Aug. 2, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

When You Get to the Forest Gets to the Drafthouse

Animator Eric Power brings his new, mythical feature back home

"...series, a program that has previously screened classics like Millennium Actress and Song of the Sea. Power had got..."

Feb. 18, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Sailor Scout and the Chaperone

A father prepares for Ushicon 3, the Austin animé convention

"...Spirited Away or to appreciate the emotional nuances in Millennium Actress by Satoshi Kon, to be moved by Keiji..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Theatre Critics' Table 1999-2000 Nominations

"...Christina J. Moore, Curb Appeal/Millennium Bug..."

May 12, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Igby Goes Down

Black comedy about youthful unraveling while on lam from boarding school.

"...Danes is a charmer as the snappy Sookie; the actress, whose cries could stop a heart in mid-pump, is..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Theatre Critics Table 1999-2000 Winners

The Austin Theatre Critics Table presented its eighth annual awards for achievement in the Austin arts in a lively ceremony at the Continental Club

"...Director, Comedy (tie) Christina J. Moore, Curb Appeal/Millennium Bug Shawn Sides, Lipstick Traces..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Theatre Critics' Table Awards 1998

"...Drama Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches, Zachary Scott Theatre Center..."

June 5, 1998 Arts Feature

Austin Theatre Critics' Table Nominations 1998

"...Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches, Zachary Scott Beast on the Moon, Live Oak..."

May 15, 1998 Arts Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...boys, and saving their "treehouse dollars." The four young actresses effectively convey that on-the-verge feeling between puberty and teen-hood,..."

Nov. 3, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...boys, and saving their "treehouse dollars." The four young actresses effectively convey that on-the-verge feeling between puberty and teen-hood,..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...smarts is T.S.'s refined girlfriend Brandi, played by British actress Forlani. Smith has commented that he made Mallrats in..."

Oct. 20, 1995 News Feature

Film Reviews

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"...life of Jade Li (Oh), a 22-year-old, Chinese-Canadian, aspiring actress. Jade lives at home with her sister Pearl (You)..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Faster Than Sound: Free Lunch Creatives Feed Austin’s Unhoused

Musicians rally for emergency storm relief, and Spicewood's Katy Kirby debuts on Keeled Scales.

"...the group found mentions from the Obama Foundation and actress Hilary Duff, who called them "a little bit more..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Most Valuable Players

A Guide to Austin Stage Actors

"...2001; Linda, Death of a Salesman, MMNT, 2000; Cinderella, Millennium Bug, Frontera, 1999; Kate, Dancing at Lughnasa, MMNT, 1998;..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Arts Feature

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"..."The Voice Actress" (Japan, U.S.) Director/Screenwriter: Anna J. Takayama, Producer: Joe Skinner..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2012: Now It's Your Turn For Fantastic Fest Features

'Combat Girls,' 'Vanishing Waves' acquired, more get release dates

"...psycho-sex odyssey Vanishing Waves (which took best film, director, actress and screenplay in the Fantastic Features category) and German..."

Sept. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything Is Possible ... Again

Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."

"...Work is for suckers. No boring leisure! Celebrate the millennium by getting the hell out of the 20th century...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...Australian black comedy earned Judy Davis that country's best actress award in 1996 for her fictional portrayal of a..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Speed Dating Sampler of All 69 Virtual SXSW Music Showcases

The sun always shines on TV

"...Mexican singer/actress Ximena Sariñana, Monterrey electro-funk staple Kinky, and alt-rock giants..."

March 12, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Adds the Chats, Boyo, Babeheaven, and Bongeziwe Mabandla

Artists broadcasting from “unusual, as well as iconic, settings”

"...Monterrey electro-funk staple Kinky, alternative rock giants DLD, and singer-actress Ximena Sariñana...."

Feb. 23, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Ivy Baker Priest, mother of actress Pat Priest (Marilyn Munster in The Munsters) was Secretary..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Those Lips, Those Eyes

Reading between the features in the Blanton's 'About Face'

"...and when gazed upon some decade or century or millennium hence, wished to be seen as a person of..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Space Invaders on a Shoestring Budget

Monsters is the best monster movie of the millennium (so far)

"...Edwards' Monsters is the best monster movie of the millennium (thus far). Seriously. Don't believe it? Still rolling over..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked If I Want To

Magnum opus on one of rock & roll's Rosetta Stones: 1967's Moby Grape

"...Peter Lewis (rhythm guitar, vocals) came aboard next. Lewis, actress Loretta Young's son, had played with surf band the..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

The Spirit of the Beehive

"They felt the film was ... simply unendurable. That no one would go see it."

"...or 7-year-old Ana knows to distinguish. Neither did the actress Ana Torrent, whose reaction to Karloff emerging from the..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

Austin blazes another trail: the Cinema Touching Disability 2004 Film Festival

"...be screened this Saturday, May 22, 10:45pm, at the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex (1156 Hargrave St.) as part of..."

May 21, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Been Around the World

Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.

"...When San Antonio-born actress Marina Gonzalez Palmier began auditioning in Los Angeles, it..."

April 12, 2002 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

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