Open Windows

Elijah Wood is the star of Nacho Vigalondo's nervy thriller about digital voyeurism.

"...Vigalondo knows how to push our cultural buttons, and Open Windows works as both a crackerjack suspenser and an..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Review: 'Open Windows'

A restrictive conceit becomes the film's most engaging feature

"...Open Windows starts simply. Blogger-nobody Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood) won..."

March 14, 2014 SXSW Post by Marc Calderaro

SXSW Film Review: 'Open Windows'

March 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Calderaro

Fixing Broken Windows?

Police tackle crime in downtown Austin

"...next weekend, Carter reiterated, but rather as a broken windows-style initiative, where police show zero tolerance for the kind..."

Nov. 6, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

A Thousand Blind Windows

Some inspiring words about Austin's newest condo development.

"..."What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?..."

Jan. 24, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

A New Parish Set to Open in Former North Door Location

Owners behind Empire and Resound Presents team up at Eastside Venue

"...The new venture opens for business March 10 with a concert featuring TWRP..."

Feb. 10, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

W is for Windows

UPDATE: W Hotel management start repairs, ACL continues shows

"...Wednesday with Dan Dyer, and the theater will be open for the Davis Cup ceremonial drawing on July 7..."

June 29, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Nacho Average Thriller

Elijah Wood and Nacho Vigalondo update 'Rear Window' for the Digital Age

"...know? Do you even want to know? With techno-thriller Open Windows, director Nacho Vigalondo said, "I wanted to bring..."

March 7, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

11/22

Legendary Austin author Neal Barrett Jr. describes that fateful day in 1963

"...A sign of the times was the open window. A/C was confined to movies and stores. In..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Neal Barrett Jr

Letters at 3AM

Al Gore is the only presidential candidate who's hot and bothered about global warming.

"..."Close the doors, they're coming through the windows! Close the windows, they're coming through the doors!"..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

The Scent of Green Papaya

"...family she works for is kind and the multi-level, open-air home with its latticework windows and dividers provides an..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns

Daniel Radcliffe's latest heads up final wave of films

"...Barrett and Simon Wingard's The Guest, and Nacho Vigalondo's Open Windows, all of which return after successful SXSW screenings...."

Sept. 10, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Colossal

Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie

"...isn’t a sellout anymore than the director’s previous film Open Windows was a porn film. A very Vigalondo movie,..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Documenting Extremes

Behind the scenes at Studio Ghibli and Kink.com

"...Kink opens with founder Peter Acworth showing the cameras around the..."

Jan. 31, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest

Bringing people together by slicing things apart

"...this up: Festival favorites such as Nacho Vigalondo (repping Open Windows and V/H/S: Viral), Eli Roth and his pals..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: 'Grand Piano'

Elijah Wood's thriller heads up this week's releases

"...the same week as Elijah Wood's other Spanish-lensed thriller, Open Windows, by Mira's long-time film making ally Nacho Vigalondo...."

May 20, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Elijah Wood Plays Impossible Tunes in 'Grand Piano'

Director Eugenio Mira and Wood on real time thrills and music lessons

"...week for fans of Wood. His new film, techno-thriller Open Windows, directed by Nacho Vigalando, gets its world premiere..."

March 6, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...category as well, with the previously announced Chef, the opening night film from Jon Favreau that was shot in..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Highest Stakes

Groobee gal Susan Gibson steps out on her own, chin up.

"...single in country music history, the Dixie Chicks' "Wide Open Spaces," Susan Gibson is concerned with the most mundane..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

“Anti-Gentrification” Protesters Target Austin Creative Alliance

“Hoodz” vandalize Jim Hightower offices, next to ACA

"...on San Marcos Street. They threw rocks through two windows and spray-painted slogans on the front wall...."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Norwood Trial: Breaking Down the DNA

Accused killer’s ex-wife takes the stand

"...electronics and appliances; of how they’d look out their windows in days prior to each burglary to see Norwood..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Gun Sense

Groups rally in the wake of open carry

"...not for lack of shoppers due to the new open carry law that went into effect Jan. 1, but..."

Jan. 15, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Let There Be Light

After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.

"...give a 30-year-old facility a rejuvenated profile. This new openness represents a major philosophic shift for the institution housed..."

May 16, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Waving Sen. Norm Coleman's Freak Flag

"...Pierre in my inbox this morning, along with an open letter to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., written by..."

June 27, 2007 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Common Law

My Neighbor's Yard is a Jungle

"...sometimes play. It has no front door and several open windows, so it's easy to walk in and out...."

Dec. 7, 2007 Column by Luke Ellis

There Are No Guidelines

The Sixth Street Sound Ordinance

"...the street drinking and shouting; your door's being held open by the crowds coming in and out, and your..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

Fantastic Fest Announces New Board

Familiar faces make up directors for troubled festival

"...Fantastic Fest 2017, so much so that some attendees openly questioned whether it would or could continue. However, the..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Time for a New Republic (Studios)

John Robison is building a creative campus out in Bastrop

"...Since 2009, Bastrop's Spiderwood Studios has hosted productions including Open Windows (starring Elijah Wood), NBC's Revolution, and AMC's The..."

Dec. 1, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Can New Republic Studios Be a Game Changer for Austin?

Massive makeover could make Austin the new Atlanta for film

"...It attracted titles as diverse as Nacho Vigalondo’s techno-thriller Open Windows, high school comedy-horror Bad Kids Go to Hell,..."

Nov. 21, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Market Transforms

Blumhouse and more at Fantastic Fest industry sidebar

"...Fantastic Market, aka Mercado Fantastico, launched in 2013 as..."

Aug. 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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