Nine Queens

Inventive and lively caper film is as low-key in its technical execution as a sidewalk shell game but fueled by a frisky energy and a blithely circuitous storyline.

"...to a "one-in-a-million" scam, selling counterfeit stamps (the titular "queens") to a shady amateur philatelist (Abadal) who’s being deported..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Austin Film Festival Adds Nine Days and Welcomes the WWE's Brothers of Destruction

New Winston Duke/Zazie Beets movie as opening night film

"...is only a week away, but they've just added nine days - or rather, Nine Days, the new Sundance..."

Oct. 15, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top Nine That We'd Like to Survive 2010

Chronique's 2009 Top Nine Style Notes

"...that's okay. Let freedom, and your freak-'fros fly, my queens...."

Jan. 1, 2010 Design Post by Anne Harris

The Aura

A sure winner for arthouse audiences with crossover appeal, Fabián Bielinsky's The Aura spins a purely enjoyable web of intrigue within a meditative, dreamlike setting.

"...film before his death in June – writer/director Bielinsky (Nine Queens) spins a purely enjoyable web of intrigue within..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Criminal

Solid but uninventive American remake of a sly Argentinean movie about a couple of con men who should have left well enough alone.

"...is an English-language adaptation of a wonderful Argentinean movie Nine Queens, directed by Fabián Bielinsky only three years ago...."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...America and the terrifying and awesome power of the feminine...."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tenth and Final SXSW Artist List

Action Bronson, Talib Kweli, a Blaze Foley tribute, and 196 more

"...Nine days. That’s how long until the larger creative world..."

March 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Bettie Pvnk Graduates Top of Her Drag Class

Sabel Scities teaches drag fundamentals to up-and-coming performers

"...Cue Pomp and Circumstance for the graduating queens of Sabel Scities’ Drag Class. At the top of..."

Dec. 4, 2019 Qmmunity Post by A. Micah Mills

Restart Your Engines...

RuPaul's Drag Race begins its second season.

"...to gays and 14 year old girls. There were nine of us packed in my tiny apartment living room,..."

Feb. 2, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

30 New Shows, Returning Series, and Other TV Premieres This April

Top Chef, crazy love, and sweet potters

"...Nine months on, HBO Max still doesn’t have a strong..."

April 1, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

HavenCon Creates Safe Spaces for Gaymers

LGBTQ gaming culture convention returns for its third year

"...The LGBTQ and gaming communities have long overlapped. The..."

April 26, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Adrenaline and Magic

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour soars into the Paramount this weekend

"...sick tricks from the world's best female freeskiers in "Nine Queens – Shades of Winter," a behind-the-scenes glimpse of..."

April 11, 2014 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Queen of Noise: Royal Thunder's Mlny Parsonz

‘Post-apocalyptic blues’ from third-time SXSW showcasers

"...cast a spell on Decibel magazine by pulling a nine rating out of 10 for a reissue of the..."

March 12, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

Last Saturday found Tobe Hooper in absentia and John C. Reilly quite the opposite

"...Criminal, a splendid remake of the Argentinian caper film Nine Queens. Jacobs and amiable star John C. Reilly (Boogie..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

The Nine Best Video Releases of 1998

"...burnout who stumbles upon a freak caper involving porn queens, billionaires, and German nihilists. All of this and lots..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"...prostitutes who work the same streets as her "drag queens."..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column

Mastodon's 'Blood Mountain' Flows Into Austin

Coming down the mountain with Mastodon

"...put it? TS: There are many difficulties. We travel nine months a year, so I think a lot of..."

March 14, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Record Reviews

"...("There's a goldmine in the local scene/ You get nine lives, you need 13"). After that, it all begins..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

Family Drama

Filmmaker Jennifer Fox discusses the seven months she spent with Bill and Karen, an interracial couple at the center of her intimate 10-hour documentary.

"...living with a family of four in a smallish Queens high-rise (and sleeping on the floor of the daughters'..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

aGLIFF Goes Behind the Flounce and Bounce of Trixie Mattel

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts spotlights the Drag Race alum and musician

"...the world of one of the most successful drag queens to come out of RuPaul's Drag Race. Despite being..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...activist groups. There were people tabling and raggedy drag queens performing. Yeah, and people protesting, lots of Christians with..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Coming to America

Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done

"...Between Kings & Queens was filmed last summer on locations in Downtown Austin..."

April 30, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...Nine Days D: Edson Oda In a house distant from..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Midsommar

Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees

"...of Wotanism, late medieval superstition, Amish Anabaptism, Mormonism, May Queens, Sun King mythology, fertility rites, and even spiritualism. The..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Miss Sunshine

Like any indie comedy worth its weight in quirkiness, Little Miss Sunshine is packed with offbeat characters, all struggling to find meaning in life – in this case on a road trip to a children's beauty pageant. And the film is so much fun, it's almost impossible not to enjoy the journey.

"...life: The Nietzsche-obsessed teenage son (Dano) hasn't spoken in nine months; the father (Kinnear) is a motivational speaker with..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Spacing Out in Round Rock

Carter, Paige, Christi, Doug, and two homeowners on 'Trading Spaces' in Central Texas

"...money, and my mother and I were the garage-sale queens, designing-on-a-dime kinda queens. It was very much my lifestyle..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Screens Feature by Kate X Messer

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...cry as powerful and sweet as the classic country queens. Her Bloodshot debut, The Virginian, was easily one of..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2021 Awards Short Lists

The Power of the Dog leads the pack with nine nominations

"...The Power of the Dog wrangled nine nods, but faces stiff competition from two movies that..."

Jan. 4, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Kingz for a Day at Austin International Drag Fest

Brand-spankin’-new KingFest kicks off AIDF 2018

"...drag kings, when compared to the popularity of drag queens, are often overlooked. “There are people out there that..."

Nov. 12, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Gay Place

This Pride keep the spark alive

"...the final spark to ignite the gay liberation movement. Forty-nine years later, we've come a long way, but 2018..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

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